Sleep Dealer
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59 out of 100

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7.3 out of 10

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  • Starring: Jacob Vargas, Leonor Varela, Luis Fernando Peña
  • Summary: In the near future, the world is divided by closed borders, but connected by a digital network that ties together people around the world. Memo Cruz lives with his parents and his brother in the small, dusty village of Santa Ana del Rio, in Mexico. Santa Ana is an isolated farming community, the kind of place that seems frozen in time -- except for the hi-tech, militarized dam that was built by a corporation, and now controls Santa Ana's water supply. Memo couldn't care less about Santa Ana. He loves technology, and dreams of leaving his small pueblo and finding work in the hi-tech factories in the big cities in the north. One night, while using his homemade radio, Memo stumbles across something he's never heard before the communications of the security forces that are constantly patrolling the area around his village, to protect the dam from 'Aqua-Terrorists.' Unknown to him, or his family, Memo is now under the crosshairs. Security agents at the water company's headquarters in the United States, have spotted Memo's radio intercept, and conclude that it's a threat. Memo is then forced to realize his dream of leaving Santa Ana in the worst possible way when his homemade radio - and his house - are destroyed in a reckless remote-control bombing. (Maya Entertainment)… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    90
    Adventurous, ambitious and ingeniously futuristic, Sleep Dealer is a welcome surprise. It combines visually arresting science fiction done on a budget with a strong sense of social commentary in a way that few films attempt, let alone achieve.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    75
    Far more worth seeing than most of what's out there.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    60
    The plot of Sleep Dealer is a bit thin, and the performances are earnest and dutiful. But there is sufficient ingenuity in the film’s main ideas to hold your attention, and the political implications of the allegorical story are at once obvious and subtle.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Justin Chang
    50
    Despite some clever virtual-reality concepts and projections about the next frontier of globalization, Alex Rivera's ambitious directing debut lacks the vision, or the budget, to pull off its fusion of sci-fi and aspirational saga.

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  1. Diezmartinez
    7
    Con todos los defectos que uno quiera encontrarle, el debut fílmico de Rivera es una notable película de ciencia ficción, cuyas ideas, inquietantemente posibles y verosímilaes, es con mucho lo mejor de una cinta a la que le faltó algo de presupuesto -aunque esto es lo menos importante- y una dirección más disciplinada y funcional por parte de Rivera, que cae a ratos en el vicio de sobre-editar las conversaciones de los personajes. Sin embargo, insisto, su idea de un futuro cercano en el que los Estados Unidos tienen el trabajo de los mexicanos sin tener a los mexicanos en su territorio, tiene una fuerza irónico/política más grande que los obvios mensajes de resistencia antiglobalización que también vehicula, de una forma ingenua, la propia película.… Expand
  2. caroleg
    6
    It's always interesting but the parts don't come together or add up.

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