Console best movie i've ever seen.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

edwardcaffronklein The original is a great, disturbing thriller. Nolan's remake is tepid in comparison. And as good as Pacino is, Skarsgard rocks it.

JoeKulik Erik Skjoldbjearg's Insomnia (1997) is a very innovative and compelling film in the Crime Narrative genre.It is certainly a very suspenseful crime narrative with a unique storyline that is somewhat convoluted, but made quite believable through a well conceived, and well thought out screenplay, very good performances by the whole cast, especially by Stellan Skarsgard in the lead role, and excellent direction.The technical side of the film, the cinematography, the editing, and the lighting is superb, not only making this film visually beautiful, but it is seamlessly interfaced with the storyline to make the whole dramatic impact of the film much more effective, and is very integral with the suspenseful, and even psychological aspect of this crime narrative.Overall, Insomnia (1997) is a film with high entertainment value, but also with a fair amount of artistic merit that makes certain aspects of the film quite thought provoking as well, at least in my opinion.

JoeKarlosi I don't think it's completely fair to evaluate a film by comparing two takes on the same material, but it was inevitable with this foreign original, directed by Erik Skjoldbjaerg. I had already seen Christopher Nolan's Americanized version of INSOMNIA and so I wanted to check out the differences. I may be in the minority here, but all this version did was make me appreciate the Al Pacino film more than I used to. I don't think Stellan Skarsgard was as effective in the part of a haggard detective undergoing a chronic lack of sleep and being forced into cooperating with a known killer. The setting here (Norway) was not nearly as picturesque as the Alaskan surroundings of the 2002 film. Truth be told, had I not already been familiar with everything going on in the story from the Nolan film, I think I would have missed a lot of details in this one. It would be interesting to know what I might have thought of this if I had caught it cold, without a comparison to the remake, but that's not a reality for me. But here's another example for me where a remake can sometimes deflate an original's power. Whether I'd even go so far to call a recent American rendition of a recent foreign movie a bona fide "remake" is debatable, though. ** out of ****

christercd I don't understand why anybody would like to make a remake of an almost perfect film, i.e. a narrative in pictures. The scenery matches so cleverly the callousness of the story, and of the protagonists; the parallels between the policeman and the author is so well done, the sheer coincidence of the events. The only "warm" place is in the hotel reception, by Maria Bonnevie. Skarsgård, but above all Ousdal, are superb, pity that Ousdal has to be killed. Pacino is good, but the film is not. i.e. in comparison to the origin. The use of close-ups are most intelligent and the dialog matches the the tragic story - everything in our lives happen by chance.Christer Dahlqvist