In the same year, CATCHPLAY also provided financing and local production support to director Martin Scorsese’s passion project Silence, making it the first international production filmed entirely in Taiwan. CATCHPLAY and partners also control exclusive distribution rights to these films in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Macau, with The Revenant generating outstanding box office results from these territories in 2016. In early 2015, we closed a partnership deal to invest in New Regency’s three enthralling titles, namely The Revenant, Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell, marking the first investment of a Taiwanese company in major Hollywood productions. Both investments generated considerable box office performance in Taiwan and China respectively. In the same year, we invested in the locally produced film, Paradise in Service and co-produced 20 Once Again with CJ Entertainment for the Chinese market. Overall, Sleepless is a perfectly serviceable action thriller with some great fight scenes, an intense villain and a fast pace guaranteeing you won’t be bored for a second.In 2014, in addition to distributing the movies CATCHPLAY loves, we embarked in earnest co-production and investment projects, venturing into content creation. There were also a few moments that stretched credibility but nothing overly clunky.
When she steals the drugs thus screwing over Vincent I was throwing stuff at the screen. The weakest element of the film for me was the character of Bryant (Michelle Monaghan) who was such an unlikable bitch that I was hoping she wouldn’t live to see the end credits.
The story is essentially Taken meets John Wick as Vincent has to return some stolen drugs to the bad guys or his son will be killed.
Anyway, he’s a suitably scary bastard in this and every moment he is on screen oozes threat. Scoot McNairy eats up the screen as the villain Novak but am I the only person who confuses him with Joel Kinnaman sometimes? They just look alike and at first I thought it was Joel playing Novak. I’m not normally a big fan of Jamie Foxx, I find he mumbles too much and comes across as really arrogant but this is one of his better roles as you aren’t quite sure if his character Vincent is corrupt or not. There’s another great fight in a spa which also looked decidedly painful and the action in general was very well done. It’s two guys fighting for survival against each other and every punch you can practically feel. It isn’t even ruined by shaky cam and also doesn’t look overly choreographed. The action highlight is easily the fight in the kitchen between Jamie Foxx and a henchman which is satisfyingly violent.
So I finally sat down to watch Sleepless and was pleasantly surprised that it’s a solid actioner with a few plot twists and some kick ass fight scenes.
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Review: It’s a shame this movie came and went with little fanfare it didn’t even get a theatrical release here in Canada and generally got lambasted on Rotten Tomatoes… which usually means it’s worth watching. Plot: A cop with a connection to the criminal underworld scours a nightclub in search of his kidnapped son. Sleepless is a perfectly serviceable action thriller with some great fight scenes, an intense villain and a fast pace guaranteeing you won’t be bored for a second.
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