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Mixed or average reviews- based on 11 Ratings

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 26
  2. Negative: 2 out of 26
  1. 88
    Mike Hodges' gritty new film noir I'll Sleep When I'm Dead begins in enigma and snakes its way into stark clarity.
  2. The spare and unsparing tone of I'll Sleep When I'm Dead makes it as existential -- and as original -- a whodunit as they come.
  3. Reviewed by: Staff (Not credited)
    60
    A consuming and stimulating work and a theoretical thriller, it is a film which could only be created by a remarkably skillful filmmaker.
  4. Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    38
    The result is a revenge thriller that's too taken with its own ambience to actually thrill.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7
  1. Clive Owen is on smouldering form as a retired gangster reluctantly drawn back to London to find out why his brother died. Slow-paced, but intense, with a low-key but believable finale, a nice performance from a grave-faced and dignified Charlotte Rampling and, unusually, Rhys-Meyers playing to his strengths as the callow brother overcome with humiliation. Arguably Owen has the presence to elevate even the most pedestrian movie into something interesting but there's enough going on amongst the other players to keep the attention throughout. Expand
  2. DanC.
    7
    Clive Owen is so good that the film rates a 7 on the strength of his performance alone. It's a humorless (and therefore incomplete) look at London gangster life, but oddly compelling. Expand
  3. KelR.
    1
    I agree with Brian G. I had high hopes for this movie and boy was I disappointed.

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