I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
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Actor: Charlotte Rampling, Clive Owen, Jamie Foreman, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Malcolm McDowellDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
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DVD Review: A slow moving neo-noir that decidedly takes it time
Summary: 4 Stars
The starting point for "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" happened years before this 2004 film begins when Will Graham (Clive Owen) decided to disappear. We gather that in former times he was pretty high up in a crime organization and that the time came when he was sickened by either what he was doing or who he had become, so he walked away and disappeared. He works as a laborer, but since he does not have papers gigs never last long. From time to time he checks in with the brother the left behind, Davey (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers). Being let go by his current employer, Will become concerned when he cannot reach Davey by phone, so he risks a trip home. After all, he has a scraggly beard and does not look like the dapper gangster he used to be. So he comes home and finds out that Davey killed himself.
At first Will does not believe his brother would have committed suicide, and he gets the results of a second autopsy. The forensic evidence suggests a surprising reason for why Davey would have slit his own throat. We are surprised as well, even though we saw most of what happened to Davey. It takes Will a while to digest this startling information, but once he does his quiet life as a forgotten man takes a back seat to finding out who is responsible for Davey's death and killing them. His ex-girlfriend, Helen (Charlotte Rampling), begs him to just leave and disappear again and it seems to me that he is sort of willing to make a concession to her demands: he is only going to kill one man and one dog. Not surprisingly, Helen is not pleased by the specificity of his kill list.
That might not be possible, because once it is known in underworld circles that Will is back in town, that seems to start some ripples that could cause problems. But Will is so methodical and so focused that there is an air of inevitability to his mission. It is just that Will is so glacial in his anger and his actions that you can almost feel your pulse slow to match his heartbeat, and some of you are not going to like that. No wonder this is a neo-noir in which the pivotal scenes are a pair of conversations rather than a gunfight or anything more exciting. The first is when Will talks to the pathologist (John Surman) who explains what the evidence suggests happen to Davey before he killed himself. Coroners and the like are almost always presented as being, to say the least, decidedly weird, but this guy is so straight forward and considerate in his detailing of the unsettling information that he constitutes a breath of fresh air. Things were still moving too slowly at that point, but from that moment on I was interested in what was going to happen next.
The second conversation is when Will finally comes face to face with the man he is going to kill. Again, screenwriter Trevor Preston ("Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire") and director Mike Hodges ("Black Rainbow") come up with something a bit different, namely some honesty. You have seen enough confrontations between the hero and the bad guy, and I am often reminded at such times of the "Saturday Night Live" skit where the James Bond villains do a seminar and they all agree at such moments just shut up and kill the guy (without using lasers or anything else that is to fancy). So a direct conversation that cuts to the heart of the matter at hand is refreshing as well. Finally, just because you make a specific threat does not mean that it is a binding contract. After all, taking your time does not mean you have to take all of the time that you have allotted for a mission of vengeance.
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