Before I Go To Sleep Mini Review

You Can’t Handle The Truth

Released : September 5th 2014

Certificate : 15

Director : Rowan Joffe

Cast : Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong

Plot : Christine (Kidman) wakes up in bed with a man she doesn’t recognise, in a house she does not recall. The man awakes to inform her that he is her husband, Ben (Firth). Christine has a meory condition in which every time she goes to sleep she forget everything about her life, with the help of Dr. Nash (Strong) she sets out to find the truth about her identity.

Another memory thriller stage in which the heroine clambers through her past to grasp at the truth of her past, with a Memento like approach through the main characters employment of pictures, and also video diaries. The film took a mostly recognisable storyline and used top actors to tackle the roles to add reality to the mind teasing thriller.

The film itself had no originality, merely recycling the story of a characters chaotic scramble for the truth of themselves, which when executed correctly can make for cult classic films. This film unfortunately lacked the intelligence or any original spin in order to set this film about from any mind bending thrillers before it. To the films credit, the actors did hold there own to portray the different characters in a way that made it difficult to predict the final outcome. So it that sense the film succeeded in being an effective ‘who done it thriller’.

But in order for a film like this to become memorable, it needs to be different from what has come before it, despite being for the most part a well acted thriller. The film tried to recreate a chaotic, frantic feel to thrill the audience, but instead due to its formulaic structure it became merely a cast almost a model for how mind thrillers are made. An film that offers good performances and entertainment as you try and guess the villain of the story, but there is not much else to see here.

Verdict : 2/5

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