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Stars: Russell Crowe, Kelly Greyson, Pacharo Mzembe, Marton Csokas, Tommy Flanagan, Karen Gillan | Written by Adam Cooper, Bill Collage | Directed by Adam Cooper

Based on E.O. Chirovici’s novel The Book of Mirrors, Sleeping Dogs opens with a look at Roy Freeman and his apartment. It’s an apartment with notes taped everywhere, even on the TV Dinner he’s about to cook. They’re reminders, meant to help him cope with his Alzheimer’s while an experimental treatment he opted for starts to work. Neither the operation nor the notes prevented him from microwaving the TV remote, however.

He’s contacted by Emily Dietz from Project Clean Hands, a group devoted to freeing the wrongly convicted. They’re interested in the case of Isaac Samuel a death row inmate Freeman arrested and helped convict for the brutal murder of college professor Joseph Wieder.

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Most know Karen Gillan as Nebula in the MCU or from the newer Jumanji films. Or if you’re a weirdo like me you remember her from her great work in the third season of Ntsf:sd:suv. As her time as Nebula draws to a close, she’s been popping up in some really interesting Indie work. While her role was brief, she had quite the screen presence in last year’s Next Exit. And I’m not sure if you’re aware but Russell Crowe has been absolutely killing it lately. So I was very excited to see Gillan and Crowe team up for a new crime thriller.

Sleeping Dogs takes the viewer on a very interesting journey of discovery. Gillan’s Laura Baines is quite layered and allows a little more grey area.

Sleeping Dogs synopsis:

In this gripping crime thriller, Russell Crowe stars as Roy Freeman, an ex-homicide detective withafracturedmemory,...

“Sleeping Dogs,” starring Russell Crowe as a retired cop with Alzheimer’s disease, is a half-rusted scrap heap of a detective mystery. It’s patchy, it’s badly lit, it’s glum, it’s overloaded with suspects, and it’s almost proud of its contrivances. Yet in its logy, booby-trapped way, it keeps you watching.

Crowe, with a white beard and shaved head that make him look like Santa Claus as a melancholy biker, plays Roy Freeman, who was forced to turn in his badge after he caused a drunk-driving accident. Now, he’s in the thick of serious midstage dementia; he has written labels on masking tape and plastered them around his apartment, so that he’ll be reminded of everything from his own name to where the hot water is. The gloss on “Memento” is obvious enough, but it’s also a coincidence that the film is being...

Russell Crowe's nuanced performance as a detective with Alzheimer's adds depth and intensity to the noir mystery of Sleeping Dogs. Karen Gillan shines as a complex femme fatale character who navigates deception and intelligence in the search for truth. Director Adam Cooper's collaborative approach and attention to detail in pacing make this film a riveting and rewatchable mystery.

Sleeping Dogs is a modern noir that follows Roy Freeman, a former homicide detective suffering from Alzheimer's. Asked to reinvestigate one of his former cases before the man convicted of the crime is executed, Roy must begin from the beginning due to the disease completely wiping out his memories. Roy faces countless obstacles in his search for the truth, and each new revelation sparks new questions about who and what he can trust, including his own mind.

Sleeping Dogs approaches the noir mystery through the lens of memory loss, seeming...

Russell Crowe in Sleeping Dogs Image: The Avenue It’s been 24 years since Christopher Nolan made a name for himself with his second feature Memento, so enough time has probably passed that heavily borrowing from it won’t be seen as a major crime. Sleeping Dogs doesn’t unfold in backward chronology,...

Russell Crowe in Sleeping DogsImage: The Avenue

It’s been 24 years since Christopher Nolan made a name for himself with his second feature Memento, so enough time has probably passed that heavily borrowing from it won’t be seen as a major crime. Sleeping Dogs doesn’t unfold in backward chronology,...

Plot: An ex-homicide detective (Russell Crowe) with memory loss is forced to solve a brutal murder, only to uncover chilling secrets from his forgotten past.

Review: Russell Crowe has been in a bit of a career resurgence lately so I’ve been pretty excited whenever a new film of his releases. No matter the quality of the film, Crowe himself tends to be can’t miss. And that’s usually because he’s playing some eccentric character, that stands out against his more bland surroundings. Thankfully with the likes of Karen Gillan and Tommy Flanagan showing up, Crowe doesn’t have to carry the entire film himself. But I definitely recommend checking your brain at the door.

In Sleeping Dogs, Crowe plays retired detective Roy Freeman as he deals with Alzheimer’s. Things get even more complicated as a case from his past springs back up, with it seeming more...

From left : Karen Gillan as Amy Pond in Doctor Who (BBC), at the Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 premiere, (Jesse Grant/Getty Images), as Nebula in Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 (Marvel Studios)The actor: Karen Gillan might not have known for sure which roles we’d...

From left : Karen Gillan as Amy Pond in Doctor Who (BBC), at the Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 premiere, (Jesse Grant/Getty Images), as Nebula in Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 (Marvel Studios)Graphic: Jimmy Hasse

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Intentionally or not, Sleeping Dogs invites comparison to Memento. In Adam Cooper’s steadfastly self-serious directorial debut, a bedraggled ex-homicide detective, Roy Freeman (Russell Crowe), is tasked with solving a brutal murder that he can’t recall due to his memory loss. But the comparison to Christopher Nolan’s breakout doesn’t do Sleeping Dogs any favors. For one, we know we’re in trouble from the moment we see Freeman stumbling through a decrepit apartment, its otherwise sparse walls adorned with handwritten messages that exist as much for his benefit as ours, like the unfortunately hilarious “You Have Alzheimers.”

From the start, the film lays it on thick. Freeman’s apartment has all the markers of someone whose mind is slowing deteriorating: staplers that have been left in water glasses, melted pieces of technology in the microwave, and half-eaten meals on top of furniture. The man wears the thickest...

Screen Rant debuts a clip from the upcoming thriller Sleeping Dogs, starring Russell Crowe and Karen Gillan. Crowe plays a detective with Alzheimer's, bringing a fresh perspective to the cold case he's investigating. Gillan showcases her versatility by tackling a tense thriller role that goes toe-to-toe with Crowe's character.

Sleeping Dogs is an upcoming thriller movie from director Adam Cooper. It’s Cooper’s directorial debut, though Cooper’s previous writing work includes Assassin’s Creed, Allegiant, and Exodus: Gods and Kings. This film was written by Cooper in collaboration with Bill Collage, and was based on the 2017 novel The Book of Mirrors by E.O. Chirovici.

Screen Rant is excited to present a clip from Sleeping Dogs in advance of the film’s theatrical release. The clip offers a deeper look at Russell Crowe’s performance as Roy Freeman following the Sleeping Dogs trailer, and also features Karen Gillan’s Laura Baines,...

After a healthy run of comedy and genre work, Karen Gillan felt it was time for a dramatic change.

Shortly before Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’s whirlwind press tour, Gillan returned to Australia where she shot Thor: Love and Thunder a couple years earlier, and joined the cast of Adam Cooper’s Sleeping Dogs, led by Russell Crowe. The twisty psychological crime drama follows Crowe’s retired homicide detective Roy Freeman, as his recovery from an experimental Alzheimer’s procedure prompts him to re-approach a murder case from a decade earlier. Gillan plays the enigmatic Laura Baines, the right-hand researcher to Marton Csokas’ Dr. Joseph Wieder and his memory reconsolidation therapy thesis.

When Professor Wieder (Csokas) winds up dead, Freeman (Crowe) takes a newfound interest in Baines (Gillan) when he revisits the case a decade later. Sleeping Dogs plays with the tropes of the femme fatale through Baines,...