Sleepless (2001)
Max Von Sydow plays a retired police detective who teams up with a young amateur sleuth to track down a serial killer who's resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year period.
Dario Argento's return to the giallo genre is a hit and miss affair. Mainly because it never bests its opening twenty minutes featuring the brutal murder of a woman on a train. It's a sequence that's every bit as good as anything Argento's created in the past and sadly the rest of the production just can't compete despite the welcome presence of Von Sydow.
Although there are some smart gory murder set pieces throughout the film as well as some trademark Argento camera work it feels a little been there done that as well and it's not helped by being far too long at two hours and also sporting that tv movie look that plagued some films around this time.
Having said all that Sleepless is an enjoyable film in it's own right and it would be more than welcome on UK Blu-ray.
I should also mention the Arrow dvd from which i saw this film once again. It looks awful with a judder which can't be ignored. A judder incidentally which is nowhere to be seen in clips from the film in the accompanying docs.
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