Article: Reviews: Insomnia: Insomnia? This may well be a cure for it

Insomnia (15) UGC **

TAKE away the star names and you have an ordinary thriller that doesn't add up.

Let's talk about the star names. Al Pacino walks through the movie like a man who's been given six weeks to live. There are things he can do blindfold, because he's an actor with Method, who's picked little tricks up, like the eyes. Pacino's eyes are very special. What director Christopher Nolan does is cruel. He photographs him alone in the middle of a broad street in the empty dawn stillness and because the camera is way off and the screen wide, he looks like a leprechaun shambling home to its burrow.

Robin Williams plays the murder suspect in a pale yellow corduroy jacket. His hair is ...

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