Given how much it's in motion, Sleepless Night doesn't have much time for character development, but Sisley is a memorable antihero whose toughness barely masks his growing desperation and exhaustion, as his bleeding knife wound serves as the film's version of a countdown clock.
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Despite the ongoing momentum, Sleepless Night never loses touch with its story.
Slant Magazine by Jaime N. Christley
After a few turns in the modest narrative, an unlikely sense of structural resilience begins to emerge.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Hectic and harebrained, this galloping French thriller tosses a potpourri of plot points - crooked cops, sleazy gangsters, stolen drugs and an underage hostage - into a packed-to-the-gills nightclub, and stirs. Repeatedly.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Frederic Jardin's gripping Sleepless Night maintains a consistently high pitch without growing monotonous.
Austin Chronicle by Kimberley Jones
Sisley is a former stand-up comic, although you'd never guess it here: Finding himself in the eye of a colossal shit storm of his own making, his Vincent is brusque and action oriented, his face, a picture of ulceration in progress.
There's no mistaking Jardin's playful mastery of the Hollywood-style action aesthetic; his movie starts in high gear and accelerates steadily from there.
It's fast, lean, satisfying, and forgettable; nothing special, really, until you realize that the movies have largely lost the knack for brisk mayhem like this.