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Davey (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is a small-time drug dealer and a big-time womanizer but also a cute, cheeky, likable guy, working the fringes of the London demimonde. One night, for no reason that director Mike Hodges and writer Trevor Preston care to make clear, a car dealer (a particularly malevolent Malcolm McDowell) and two henchmen abduct and brutally rape him. Davey commits suicide, and his terminally taciturn brother Will (Clive Owen, the star of Hodges' Croupier) returns to the criminal life from a rough rural retirement to avenge the kid's death...
...Sleep When I'm Dead's plot is as simple as that of a western (or, Hodges says, a samurai epic). The actors are more elements in a dark, elegantly realized landscape than fully incarnate characters. Among the things Hodges and Preston have stripped out of their film are all the usual explanations. What drove Will away from his successful criminal past? What does Charlotte Rampling's enigmatic restaurateur see in him? Instead, what we have to entertain us is style. As with Croupier, Hodges is not in any hurry to get to the point of his scenes, which...
...Jantzen has taken more than just Meltzer under his wing. His work with some of the freshmen on the team, such as Robbie Preston (125 lbs.), Jonathan Spiker (165 lbs.) and especially heavyweight Bode Ogunwole have helped them to improve dramatically...
...PRESTON: Much of nanotechnology is an example of overinflated pricing. Having said that, I have seen some wonderful nanotech companies. Nanotech in sensors can be used very intelligently. I think those will win. If there's a product, a customer and money to be made, that's a different story...
...PRESTON: It's gone from zero to three times zero. [Laughter.] There are barriers to entry there. It costs a lot of money to get started. The big energy companies have made those barriers pretty severe...