Hayden Christensen, Lena Olin, Jessica Alba
"Awake," a psychological thriller that tells the story of a man (Christensen) undergoing heart surgery while experiencing a phenomenon called "anesthetic awareness," which leaves him awake but paralyz...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 13, 2008
Stats: 12,758 reviews
''Am I supposed to still hear you?''
The story focuses on a man who suffers "anesthetic awareness" and finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed, during heart surgery. His mother must wrestle with her own demons as a drama unfolds around them, while trying to unfold th...( read more)
Psychological thriller about a wealthy guy (Hayden) who is awake during his heart surgery. He hears the surgeons plot how they are going to kill him. But why? There are many twists, which keeps the movie interesting. Good plot but very graphic and gorey, not for the faint hearted!
Awake has a great premise but it fails to deliver the goods. Alba lacks in the acting department, no matter how 'hot' she looks on screen. Howard, normally a decent actor, phoned in his performance. Christensen seemed to deliver the best he could with a poorly written script. ...( read more)
I was afraid that this was going to play too heavily on the gimmic of the "anesthic awareness". In the end the overall story was a satisfying mystery.
"Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one."
Jessica Alba, Hayden Christensen, and Terrence Howard star in first-time director/screenwriter Joby Harold's nerve-jangling psychological ...( read more)
Awake is an acquired taste, personally I think the story was good enough to last the distance but with the multiple twists it just got worse and worse. Unlike movies like a beautiful mind this does not set the tone well enough at the beginning for me to really care what happens t...( read more)
Alba lacks in the acting department, no matter how 'hot' she looks on screen. Christensen too.
With a couple of more drafts to mend the plot holes and restructure the middle act, Awake could have been saved. full review
Accuracy is not the point. Suspense is. And from the moment Clay realizes he is not fully under anesthesia and can hear and feel everything that is happening, the movie had me. full review
The filmmakers of Awake have crafted a domestic thriller that just may end up putting you ASLEEP. full review
Its good, so if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.
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What the fuck is wrong with you people this movie was bad extremly bad, espeshially the acting I wasn't my money on this I really did.
I was expecting so much more from this movie. The only suspense was the last 15 mins of the film. I think this film wanted to have this great twist at the end but the movie left me thinking, this could have been a featured on a Sci Fi movie as a supernatural film with the out of body experiences for him and the mother. I like Terrence Howard acting but he was not very convincing as a doctor. Jessica played a good part with switching personalities in the movie. I enjoyed the surprise at the end of the movie but that was it for me.
a one time must see movie, with beautiful alba, nice drama to follow through with no other scenes except the plot of hayden's kill.
The reason i think this movie might be worth watching because of the twists specially one i didn't see it coming & besides the movie is not that long just 78 mins of your life will be wasted.I guess that's not so bad.
Interesting film but the plot is not so convincing.Worth a rental in the near future just don't look for too much logic to this story.Check it out at your own risk.I'm sure few Jessica Alba fans will think she deserves an Oscar for this :-0
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