Awake delivers a decent tale that starts far stronger than it ends. While its unique premise initially helps present something different, it quickly comes to get in its own way.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 16, 2023

“Awake” constantly teases us with its interesting ideas and you stick with it even through the rough patches in hopes of a satisfying payoff. Unfortunately the payoff never comes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Even as genre fare, the film rarely finds ways to ramp up the tensions.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jun 23, 2021

The latest from director Mark Raso (Kodachrome) is a science-fiction thriller with a promising concept and not nearly enough follow-through.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 22, 2021

It feels like a disturbed dream sleep that's best forgotten when conscious.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 18, 2021

Maybe the biggest disappointment is no one thought to use Katy Perry's Wide Awake as the main theme.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jun 18, 2021

It's all pretty heavy handed with a resolution you'll see coming from miles away, so watch it as frivolous genre comfort food, no more no less.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2021

It's perhaps too easy to dismiss 'Awake' as a snoozer, but unfortunately it's also completely accurate.

| Original Score: D | Jun 14, 2021

Go back and watch [the car crash scene] again, again and again, because it is the only good [scene] in the whole movie. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 14, 2021

'Awake' will put you to sleep.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 12, 2021

If you're suffering from insomnia, watching "Awake" just might provide the cure.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 12, 2021

A squandered opportunity.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 12, 2021

Awake is definitely not this year's A Quiet Place or Bird Box, just a really massive disappointment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 12, 2021

...an intriguing premise that is, by and large, employed to absolutely disastrous effect...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 11, 2021

The issue is that Awake takes this very complicated premise, doesn't explain it entirely, and proceeds to pile on the plot holes.

| Jun 11, 2021

Unfortunately, Awake rather wastes the concept by tying it the beats of a generic action film.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 11, 2021

Awake just didn't make sense. The idea was there, but the execution wasn't. Storytelling was sacrificed for brutality.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 11, 2021

For audiences bored by what amounts to a slow-burn road trip, it's all too easy to close your eyes and look for something more exciting in your dreams.

| Jun 11, 2021

Awake put me to sleep.

| Original Score: C- | Jun 11, 2021

The promise of an intriguing premise results in expectations that the film, which rarely diverges from the familiar feel of a post-apocalyptic road movie, is unable to capture.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 10, 2021