Premise: LA Police Detectives are called to a remote Alaskan town to solve a murder.
While I've seen all of Christopher Nolan's movies, Insomnia has been the one I remember the least. It's not as stylish as his other movies, nestled between Memento and Batman Begins. The most important thing about it is that it's the movie that proved he could work above an indie budget.
The movie itself is standard fare for a crime movie. Al Pacino is excellently exhausted throughout the movie. He's dazed the whole time. This was Robin Williams in the peak of his villain era. For years, I would confuse this and One Hour Photo. This movie is great evidence of how unready Hollywood was to make Hilary Swank a star. She wins the Oscar in 2000. Her immediate follow-up movies are ones like The Gift and this where she plays supporting characters. It is strange to see her as the hungry young officer when she's already a couple years removed from a Lead Actress Oscar.
This is easily my least favorite Nolan movie, because it's the one that it feels the most like anyone else could make. Still, they don't make crime dramas like this very often anymore, so the movies ages quite well.
Verdict: Weakly Recommend
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