Awake

Pros: Excellent concept.  Interesting devices employed to complete the story.
Cons: Dialogue mediocre, acting okay but relationships a bit questionable.

When you look at the numbers, the seemingly innocuous number of 0.01 percent of the population who wake up during surgery seems much more startling when one considers 21 million people per year undergo surgery...which is equal to 21,000 ...

Pros: Explores a fascinating and terrifying premise...
Cons: ...which gets dropped after the first half.

Awake had an unbelievably terrifying premiseImagine going in for surgery, and the anesthesia doesn't work the way it's supposed to.  So you're actually awake during the procedure, hearing everything going on around you.  And, ...

Pros: I thought the premise would be good
Cons: premise not really realized, some bad acting, not suspenseful enough, becomes uninteresting

Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one. Such is the tagline for the film Awake which advertised itself as a film that would show what it was like to ...

Pros: Very interesting premise; surprising plot twist
Cons: Topic of anesthetic awareness is barely touched upon

I really haven’t been paying attention of late to the things around me other than the fact that I have been more awake than asleep ever since there has been a newborn baby in the house. So it was not surprising that I had no idea behind the premise ...

Pros: Fast paced story, unexpected twists and turns
Cons: Some parts unbelievable

I had a lot of time on my hands last week to watch some movies. I was completely ill and bored (when awake), so I decided to check out so Pay-Per-Views. Awake looked interesting, starring Hayden Christensen as Clay Beresford, who actually looks ...

Pros: Not many
Cons: Haden Christensen

Whoever convinced Haden Christensen he could act should be slapped, seriously!  The man has no presence, no charisma, and scant acting ability.  So why does he keep showing up on the silver screen?  He almost single-handedly ruined the ...

Pros: Jessica Alba really can act
Cons: Hayden Christensen really cant

Having an operation can be a daunting thing, it's filled with dread; new movie Awake focuses on two of the many things that can go wrong during an operation. Firstly being awake but paralysed during the operation, and secondly death when the operation ...

Pros: The plot goes in a surprising direction.
Cons: Low budget feel to it, creepy piano music, poor acting.

Awake is one of those movies that I'm slightly ambivalent about. The movie was quite... weird. Ordinarily, I would give it 2 stars for acting. I gave it 3 stars because I found the plot had quite some twists to it that I was not expecting. As I ...

Pros: Very suspenseful. Character portrayals believable.
Cons: There was an unexplained loose end that made the film seem incomplete.

Starring Hayden Christensen as Clay Beresford, Jessica Alba as Sam Lockwood, Terrence Howard as Dr. Jack Harper, Lena Olin as Lilith Beresford, Christopher McDonald as Dr. Larry Lupin, Arliss Howard as Dr. Jonathan Neyer, Fisher Stevens as Dr. Puttnam, ...

Pros: Great movie, great story line, Edge of your seat type movie
Cons: Needed more pain, if this were to happen more pain would be involved then occasionally.

With this movie I would say that it was very well put together. The theory of an anesthesia coma is very well true. There are people that have gone through this and lived and some who have gone into shock and died. The story of this begins where a ...

Pros: the whole movie
Cons: nothing

I thought by the previews that this movie would be decent. As I found out, it was a very good movie overall. The plot isn't original, but the twists and turns throughout the movie made it quite interesting. I truly enjoyed it and would recommend it without hesitation.