“Sleeping Dogs,” about a detective with Alzheimer’s, is a been-there, done-that and predictable retread of better movies. Credit to Crowe, however, who’s great in it.
, which is in theaters Mar. 22, concerns a detective suffering from Alzheimer’s disease who chooses to reopen a past homicide case, and just as this sleuth can’t recollect precisely what took place during that long-ago investigation, Adam Cooper’s film assumes that none of his viewers will recall—two films whose template it follows to a tee, albeit with considerably more noir-ish inflections.
Isaac encourages Roy to see Richard , who’s writing a book about the murder. First, however, the former detective—who lost his job due to a calamitous DUI accident—visits his ex-partner Jimmy , who claims ignorance about Richard and tells Roy that they got their man and to leave it alone. Before he can track Richard down, Roy hears that he’s died of a suspicious fentanyl overdose.
“Memory is a fickle thing,” intones Richard in voiceover before musing about the fact that sometimes, pain is so intense that it gets buried deep within the subconscious, and memories of it bubble up in fragments “like pieces of a puzzle.
Roy soon exposes revelations about Richard, Wieder and Laura’s twisted dynamic, which was rife with romantic and professional jealousies and betrayals. Upon tracking down Laura, who’s now living under a different name, the detective comes to grasp that much of this mess has to do with her thesis about “memory reconsolidation through accelerated resolution therapy” as well as Wieder’s likeminded research.
Cooper often shoots Roy with wide-angle lenses to underscore the protagonist’s distorted POV, and if that formal approach isn’t subtle, it at least lends the proceedings a bit of panache. It’s Crowe, however, who really makeswatchable.
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