Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

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

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

allyse67-234-997100 I had read about this film years before I actually saw it. The write up was intriguing enough that I kept it and when I saw the film, I understood why the reviewer said it was not to be missed. As society grows more and more tech-reliant, people become more and more isolated while still being "connected". This movie explores how little we might understand about what and who is really behind the things we enjoy and how little we may truly know about what it's like to walk in someone else's shoes. Poignant, moving, and completely unforgettable.

Matt Kracht The plot: A Mexican laborer, falsely targeted by the USA as a terrorist, goes to work for a "sleep factory", where he remotely operates robots for American corporations.Sleep Dealer is a return to classic cyperpunk, like the early novels of William Gibson. It's a very believable world, full of near-future tech that's both intriguing and disheartening. Like Gibson's leftist criticism back in the 1980s, it examines globalism, isolationism, nationalism, and imperialism. It never becomes anti-American, but it probably will offend some conservative Americans. Some of the ideas are really great, and I liked how the movie played with current technological and political trends. Hopefully, if the movie were made today, it'd be a little more optimistic, but I kind of doubt it.The biggest problem I had with Sleep Dealer was that it was so overt and explicit about its themes. Perhaps the director thought that these themes were too important to be coy about them. Regardless, it came across as a bit unsubtle and preachy. If you agree with the premises, you'll probably be pretty forgiving. Unfortunately, the acting isn't all that great, though it's good enough for a low budget, genre film. The special effects are a bit iffy, as well, but most people probably aren't expecting Avatar.As long as you're willing to overlook some faults, this is an enjoyable and socially conscious science fiction movie that anyone can enjoy, regardless of their nationality.

michaelj108 Based on the premise of labor without laborers. The usual Mexican preoccupations with El Norte are there, but nicely balanced and understated. No preaching.It depicts a future only a few minutes away from today. Mexicans work in Mexico controlling via the internet robots in the USA that do everything from construction to nannies. They use Waldo's plugged into their nervous system. But there is no surfeit of tech-speak. A peon from the arid interior comes to Tijuana at the now completely closed USA border to work in one of the implant factories. He meets a writer who sells stories, memories. The drone operator who killed the peon's father seeks him out through the writer.Understated and visually dark, but arresting and unpredictable.

billcr12 Sleep Dealer is a science fiction film. Memo works in a factory but tells his story through flashbacks. His father owned a farm which shut down due to a dam built nearby. Memo becomes a hacker and is able to break into a military computer system. He intercepts communications and is almost caught. A drone detects him and attacks their trailer nearby, killing his father. He takes a bus to Tijuana and meets Luz, who has nodes on her wrist which taps into a network. She uploads memories to a trading company, and she tells him how to get the nodes on the black market. Nemo is robbed and later has cyber sex with Luz and discovers that she is selling memories of him to the network. While online, he finds Ramirez, the pilot of the drone that killed his father, and they partner up to take on the evil global government. Sleep Dealer is sci-fi with a conscience; the story is good, with solid acting. Alex Rivera had previously made documentaries detailing the struggles of immigrants. He shows promise as s director and I look forward to his next movie.