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<br>movie review Christopher Nolan</font>
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<p>With <i>Insomnia</i>, indie prince turned Hollywood it-director Christopher Nolan assumes the role of hired-hand with impeccable aplomb and eminent professionalism. His take on Erik Skjoldbjaerg's 1997 Norwegian meta-thriller of the same name often bears the unmistakable signs of screenplay-by-committee and other corporate travesties. But in a pleasant surprise, it often displays the same mnemonic mastery - that ability to manipulate past and present - that made Nolan such an interesting filmmaker in the first place. Its Scandinavian settings transposed to the Alaskan wilderness, <i>Insomnia</i> threatens, in its first hour at least, to amount to little more than pointless rehash.
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