Wednesday 14 March 2012

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (2003) 6/10

Starring : Clive Owen, Charlotte Rampling, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Malcolm McDowell
Director : Mike Hodges
Running Time : 99 mins

Petty drug dealer Davey Graham (Rhys Meyers) is sexually assaulted and decides to take his own life. When his brother Will (Owen) hears about his brothers suicide, he suspects foul play and sets out to find out why his brother would kill himself and what really happened to him on the night of his death.

This is a slow paced and confusing drama that doesn’t really go into enough detail over the events that occur. Malcolm McDowell’s character, Boad, doesn’t seem to have any reason for assaulting Davey apart from the fact that he wanted to and he could. It might have made a bit more sense if he was also a drug dealer and Davey was on his patch, but Boad is just a car salesman? Aside from these minor confusions, this was an okay movie, but not the best gangster movie around.

You’ll like this if you liked : London Boulevard



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