| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Less painful than having your chest cut open, but a disagreeable experience just the same.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 6, 2008

The twist-happy screenplay holds together, and the actors around Christensen are better than they have to be: not only reliable hands like Lena Olin and Arliss Howard, but also a perfectly cast Jessica Alba, smartly playing with and against her looks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 10, 2008

Makes one want to assume a state of mind opposite to the film's title.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 30, 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.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Dec 6, 2007

With a couple of more drafts to mend the plot holes and restructure the middle act, Awake could have been saved.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 3, 2007

Awake is a pleasing if negligible diversion.

| Dec 3, 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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 3, 2007

If you have an ax to grind with someone who harbors a morbid fear of surgery, you couldn't design a better revenge than taking them to see Awake.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 3, 2007

Possibly the worst movie of 2007, and certainly the worst movie ever made featuring the spirits of dying people discussing their futures and sharing mortal flashbacks.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Dec 2, 2007

The movie tries going for a laugh or two. It even makes stabs at irony. But since none of the story is suspenseful, remotely believable, or, at the very least, cheaply entertaining, who cares?

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 2, 2007

Awake is filled with risible medical behavior (the sterility of the operating room is repeatedly compromised) and a horizontal Mr. Christensen screaming variations on "Oh no, I can feel that!"

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 2, 2007

Debuting writer-director Joby Harold's thriller does have an attention-getting plot hook, but piles on too many narrative gimmicks to maintain suspense or credibility.

Full Review | Dec 2, 2007

Sometimes in their urgency to prevent critics from seeing their dreck, film companies throw out the baby with the bathwater. Such is the case with this nifty little thriller.

Full Review | Dec 2, 2007

Accuracy is not the point. Suspense is. And from the moment Clay realizes he is not fully under anesthesia and can hear and feel everything that is happening, the movie had me.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 2, 2007