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Sleepers (1996)
Rate:
2
Viewed:
11/02, 12/12
12/12:
Sleepers is a phony movie with a capital P.
My favorite scene is when the phony actor Jason Patric took a phony stab at The Method while eating dinner with his fellow
phony actor Bruno Kirby who abruptly cut him off, "Hey, things are good? Life is good? Good, good." That's that.
The all-around phony acting, which seeps through many meaningless scenes (read that as "improv workshops"), is what killed
the film right from the start. Really, the star-studded cast isn't necessary. The pace drags, the story is corny, and the
scenes are cringeworthy. Higher degree of phoniness is created constantly.
All in all, Sleepers is a phony picture that's directed by a phony director about phony characters trying to make
a phony statement.