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The film focuses on a man who suffers 'anesthetic awareness' and finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed, during heart surgery. Meanwhile, his wife (Jessica Alba) wrestles with demons of her own while her husband suffers through his ordeal.
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September 04, 2014
so far fetched that I couldn't swallow the storyDecember 03, 2007
With a couple of more drafts to mend the plot holes and restructure the middle act, Awake could have been saved.December 03, 2007
[Joby] Harold's script has a surprise or three in it, a biggy near the end. But he's a director with no poker face. He tips his hand early and often.December 06, 2007
Awake feels like an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode unfolding in slow motion, with each new revelation coming a reel or two after viewers have guessed it.December 03, 2007
Awake is a pleasing if negligible diversion.April 25, 2008
Imagine it's a comedy and pray for the end.April 06, 2008
Less painful than having your chest cut open, but a disagreeable experience just the same.May 02, 2008
Outlandish, preposterous, contrived,and implausible thriller which happens to be fun if you ignore the fact that it's outlandish,preposterous,contrived and implausible.June 05, 2008
Writer-director Joby Harold's debut is stylishly self-assured and suspenseful enough to quicken the pulse.April 04, 2008
Se um ator admirável como Terrence Howard surge tão constrangedor neste longa, que chances teriam pobres aspirantes a intérpretes como Hayden Christensen e Jessica Alba?December 06, 2007
A medical thriller with a noggin full of novocaine, this shocker about a botched heart surgery evidently suffered brain surgery to match.December 03, 2007
The plot has more holes in it than a tea bag and the film should come with a warning label: don't go see with anyone with even a modicum of medical knowledge, because they'll surely spend the film huffing and rolling their eyes skyward.