I saw the film Insomnia last night. It's a good thriller, made more than good by Al Pacino's performance, with an excellent assist from Robin Williams. (Williams should play more psycho-killers--as he does here--and lay off the goodie-two-shoes roles for a while.) The movie starts out like a Xerox of Twin Peaks: A big-city detective travels to a small logging town to solve the murder of a teen-age girl, who has left behind a diary and a punk boyfriend. After a while, a twist is introduced that takes the story in a direction of its own, however. I give it an "A." It's cleverly done, though with a lesser actor in the lead role, I might have given it a "B."
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