Review of Awake (2007) by Chunki F — 09 May 2009

I am too much of a sucker to these out-of-body experience supernatural movies, but people just can't get them right. There were 3 in recent years. It got worse each time: Just Like Heaven (good), The Invisible (mediocre), and now Awake (awful).

I should have known when the leads were Hayden Christensen & Jessica Alba, the filmmakers were not aiming for high art. Granted it did have a thrilling story and interesting setup, and they were so poorly executed with low credibility that it could made you feel betrayed by the nice suspenseful thrill and the queasy gruesome scenes.

There were an inexplicably changes in the tone of the characters as if you wonder whether the audience were supposed to be a third person or supposed to be the lead character's point of view. What kind of hospital was that that the operation take place near a lounge where people can walk in and out of the operating room at will.

Supernatural is one thing. The resolution was over the top.