Garbage

Rating: Null/10 (31 May 2002)

Insomnia is boring, badly scripted, badly acted, melodramatic trash. Al Pacino plays a detective with some phony non-italian name which doesn't suit him, who has arrived in some beautiful Alaskan village to solve a murder. Yes that famous, emotional don corleone (its tough being a rich mafioso) is back better than ever as an emotional cop. I don't know what was more irritating, Pacino's huge sacks of age under his eyes, or the sophomoric script he's reading from. Hillary Swank also appears, playing a fighto woman cop ready to solve the case reminding me of some second rate Nancy Drew, which funny enough, was mentioned in the film. Her acting was amateurish, and i'm sure she was trained by the best or whatever kind of shit they can give an oscar winning actress. i remember her from buffy the vampire slayer, in which she seemed more relaxed and less like someone trying to be a "good" actress. Robin Williams in a dramatic role just doesn't work. Finally, the director. This memento man, who does wonders with the camera. well, i was wondering what exactly that is. i've seen the following and memento: both shit. and now this...what's the big deal? Is it his filters? his lighting? i can't imagine it being his ability to direct actors because this film exemplifies bad direction of the actors. its not that hard to film a beautiful image, especially in this film's case in beautiful icy alaska. Christopher Nolan is no great director. Just watch this film, and you'll see. He's just an excuse for "film buffs" to say "gee, that's great art." Its these same "buffs" who appreciate that garbage David Lynch creates. As far as i see it, Stanley Kubrick was enough as far as beautiful direction with no other purpose is concerned.
See this films if you want, but its garbage.
Cornelius NYC