hey what's going on everybody and welcome back to my channel movie files ellie back again with
a brand new early netflix movie review and today we'll be discussing the new sci-fi drama by the
name of awake which will be coming to netflix on wednesday june 9th now i got the chance to check
it out early courtesy of netflix and i'm really excited to let you all know what i thought about
this new sci-fi drama and if you all should give it a watch on the spoiler-free review but before
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the comments your pros your cons your thoughts on the performances did you like the premise
did it live up to the premise let's discuss it all in the comments below so for me personally
i had heard about this film a couple months ago so i always like to do some research in regards to
what's coming soon to netflix i read the synopsis i was very intrigued i'm a fan of gina rodriguez
i love me a good sci-fi film so those are kind of the leading points to me checking this out without
even watching the trailer which starting off with my positives it's that premise man again i
love sci-fi i love exploring like okay what would really happen if this happened in the real world
and for you all that do not know i'ma leave the the trailer and the premise and the synopsis in
the description but briefly let me read it right quick after a global event wipes out humanity's
ability to sleep a troubled ex-soldier fights to save her family as society and her mind spiral
into chaos so listen i when i was much younger i have done the 24 hours stay up 24 hours just for
the hell of it right it's something i probably can't do with at my age now and even nowadays
with you know working at 18 20 hour long day but in the day i'm exhausted i'm you know tripping
out at some points right so it's just that idea like okay what would happen if you physically
could not be able to sleep in the film at its best which is mostly in the first half of this movie
it plays into that right it has this ticking time bomb of this catastrophe that takes over the world
it takes away your ability to sleep but not only that it wipes out all the electronics on earth
so just okay no electronics to your disposal not being able to sleep
what's going to happen and i like how the film again within that first half and some in the
second half it plays into like the different stages of when you're not being able to sleep
you have you know things like disorientation you have hysteria you have hallucinations and knowing
that you have this ticking time bomb in this film regarding okay after a couple days after
several hours you know more particularly several days of not being able to sleep that is not good
for the human condition and that is very fatal so i like when the film played into those elements
we meet different characters who are definitely at stage three hallucinations disorientation and
kind of getting very dark and sinister i like when the film kind of explores those elements
and that was really the most intriguing element of this film the premise and it playing out in
those first two acts of the movie which brings me into the performances now a lot of these actors to
me were brand new a lot of these actors didn't uh live up to what i was hoping for in this film but
there are two performances one being gina rodriguez who plays jill who is the troubled
ex-soldier in the situation who's the mother of these two kids and for the most part i thought
she was believable i felt like she was a mom that wanted to do anything to protect her kids
we don't get as much backstory for the character other than a couple hints and you see something at
the beginning of the film that they really don't explore too much but i like gina rodriguez i love
her and sci-fi she was in one of my favorite sci-fi films last few years in annihilation
and for the most part i enjoy the performance but the the mvp for me man is is her daughter matilda
who is played by the actors by the name of ariana greenblack who when i was watching this movie man
i didn't look it up because i wanted to figure it out and i never did so after the fact where did i
see her from you guys probably don't recognize her but she is a little girl that played little gamora
in avengers infinity war and i thought she was great she was very critical to the movie she
was almost a mcguffin of sorts without watching a trailer i didn't know how important she was to
the script and i won't give it away here obviously but if you've seen the trailer
they show you how important she is to the story but she was a a great young actress
i i believed her i felt for her she was funny she was probably the only character that did care for
which we'll talk about later but i thought that she was great as the young actress who really
kind of carried this film and also to just kind of transition to wrap it up on positives without
watching a trailer there were a lot of wtf moments for me i didn't realize this film was rated r
or m a i didn't realize how surprisingly violent and dark it got at times which you know i love
me a good you know good amount of sci-fi but also some thrilling horrific elements in this film and
there's just one sequence that takes place later on the film that's like a car sequence that really
kind of lived up again to what happens when people don't get sleep and they're sleep deprived they
get a little crazy and you see that later on the film with one of my favorite moments in the movie
which is that car sequence which was shot really well really uniquely shot was really entertaining
which also brings me to the third act of the movie which i'll say is batshit crazy in both a
positive and a negative light more particularly in a positive i'm just like what is going on
again hallucinations you have people that think that uh acorn is a grenade and just seeing little
things like that it was really interesting but again i mentioned that it was both positive
but also negative which brings me into my negativities my my criticism with this film
it was very laughable at times i say that because this is a yet another example
of a cool premise a cool idea a sci-fi film on netflix that's just completely forgettable
i watched this movie last night and i really can't remember a lot of the middle of the film
this is a very forgettable type of movie very boring at points i'm not gonna lie which you
know that ending of that film which we'll get into a little bit later but the premise the
first half was really intriguing but unfortunately it does not live up to the premise to me once we
meet these secondary characters and most of these characters are generic and just so boring and the
supporting characters are literally throwaway characters there is zero character development
within this film and there are some really bad dialogue moments like these actors to me feel
like they were improving their lines just to kind of fill space and i did not care for a majority of
these characters mostly our main cast i applaud gina rodriguez and matilda and her daughter i
thought they were the strongest points of the film but i think of jill's mother-in-law their the son
noah and this uh various other amount of characters like for example the character
they made on the road when you guys see the film by the name of dodge it was just these characters
lack charisma and i just didn't care for them they were just very bland very generic and just zero
cares from me personally which again going back to that premise the film doesn't live up to it at
all because again they're not able to sleep they don't have electronics at disposal we don't get
world building we don't know how this is affecting the world we don't know how it's affecting certain
other elements of the us government it's a very like basic level of like oh i have a cool idea
but they don't flesh out that idea right we get the the bare minimum of expanding on this idea
again you see moments of like okay people aren't sleeping they're gonna probably steal things
they're not gonna probably get sleeping pills they're gonna probably think that people that
may or may not be able to sleep are messiahs of the story and they have to be sacrificed so
it just barely scratches the surface on this element and at the end of the day it's just a
very stereotypical sci-fi film where we have our characters that are in you know a bad situation
and we have to watch them go from point a to point b very generic very stable very stereotypical and
just doesn't really offer much once you get done watching the movie which brings me into some of
the acting i mentioned the poor dialogue but don't let them being sleep deprived fool you there are
literally some terrible moments of acting this film from a lot of the supporting characters
and there just is even more worse stupid moments within this film we're looking at scientists
supposedly scientists the smartest people uh you know available to help out the situation this film
has some really really dumb moments and i won't get into those moments but it's a very stupid
movie at times so listen before i give you all my overall thoughts on my score make sure to like the
video share the video leave your thoughts in the comments once you've seen the film and of course
subscribe to the channel if you haven't already overall when it comes to awake this is another
example of yet another netflix sci-fi film with a cool and interesting premise but unfortunately
goes absolutely nowhere i'm gonna give this film awake a two out of five listen they should have
named this film sleek because i was bored for the majority of this film and this is something
i wouldn't recommend seeing whenever you get those movies that drop on a weekday like a wednesday
that pretty much maybe speaks to the quality of this film it could have had a lot of potential
there is a good movie within this film somewhere but unfortunately with the lack of charisma flair
from the direction the dialogue some terrible acting cool premise but doesn't live up to that
premise so again two out of five for me but let me know what you all thought of awake
once you've seen it your pros your cons did you like it did you not like it let's talk
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