Christine Lucas (Nicole Kidman) wakes up every
day
remembering nothing and her last memories were from her early twenties. She
doesn’t remember her husband Ben (Colin
Firth) and she has to look at a wall of pictures every day, but she gets a call
from Dr. Nasch (Mark Strong) who she has been seeing in secret to help treat
her condition and she has been keeping a secret video diary to help her with
what she discovered on previous days.
She tries to piece together what caused her amnesia and find a way to
move forward with her life as she uncovers terrifying secrets and get flashes
of memory that makes her doubt whom she can trust. BEFORE I GO TO
SLEEP is a great jigsaw
piece mystery from writer/ director Rowan Jofee (adapting the S.J. Watson
novel) Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth
have great chemistry in their second onscreen pairing (they played husband and
wife first in THE RAILROAD MAN) while Mark
Strong is good at playing a caring doctor as well as he can play the
villain. I liked going along the
journey with Christine as she tries to piece together her past as it made me
care for her journey to discover whether an accident caused her amnesia. I
would love to see Kidman and Firth star in
another movie together very soon.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
The extras are very brief as they are broken
into three very
short character fetaurettes called CHARACTER ILLUSIONS which focus on BEN,
CHRISTINE, and DR. NASCH while FORGET ME NOT is a promotional featurettte that
uses a lot of the same material in the CHARACTER ILLUSIONS featurette. Rounding
out the extras are a code to
download and stream a digital Ultraviolet HD copy of the movie, a theatrical trailer,
AND
previews for other 20th Century Fox releases including GONE
GIRL, THE BEST OF ME, HECTOR AND THE SEARCH
FOR HAPPINESS, THE DROP, IF I STAY, and
THE LONGEST WEEK.
FINAL ANALYSIS:
BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP is a great jigsaw piece mystery thriller with a
great central cast of three actors. It
is well worth watch at least once and I hope Kidman teams up with firth for
another movie soon.
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David Blackwell and cannot be reprinted without permission. Send all comments
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