A remake of the 2011 French flick Sleepless Night, Baran bo Odar’s breathless action thriller Sleepless may have only been released eight years ago, but it can already be considered a forgotten entry in a diluted genre. Starring the ever-popular Jamie Foxx, just two years after his Academy Award for Best Actor win for the musical biopicRay, Sleepless also boasts the likes of Michelle Monaghan, David Harbour, Scoot McNairy, Dermot Mulroney, Gabrielle Union, and more in a movie written by Academy Award nominee Andrea Berloff.
However, despite the impressive names both on and off-screen, Sleepless faced fierce backlash, illustrated by a poor 25% critics’ score and a 37% audience rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, and The Guardian‘s Peter Bradshaw saying the film “suffers from sheer silliness.” Nevertheless, eight years on, Sleepless has become an unlikely streaming hit, officially one of the ten most-streamed movies on Paramount+ in the U.S., per FlixPatrol. As of July 15, 2025, Sleepless joins a selection of big-name titles also dominating Paramount+, including Jack Quaid‘s hit 2025 action film Novocaine, Tom Cruise‘s Top Gun: Maverick, Matthew McConaughey’s 2011 legal thriller The Lincoln Lawyer, and more. For those yet to see Sleepless, here’s a look at the synopsis:
“Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs (Foxx) finds himself caught in a high-stakes web of corrupt cops, internal affairs and murderous gangsters. When a failed heist leads to the kidnapping of his teenage son (Octavius J. Johnson), Downs must race against time during a wild and restless night to save him and bring the criminals to justice.”
‘Sleepless’ Also Struggled at the Box Office
Not just a failure both critically and with audiences, Sleepless also couldn’t prove a financially fruitful venture. Made for a reported $30 million, the film just scraped past this most basic of milestones, ending its theatrical run with a global box office haul of $33.2 million. Split between a domestic total of $20.7 million and a further $12.5 million from overseas markets, the movie couldn’t even finish as one of the 150 highest-grossing films of 2017. At position #160 on the list, Sleepless was outperformed by the likes of Douglas Smith‘s The Bye Bye Man, the forgotten animated flick The Son of Bigfoot, and the critically panned crime thriller The Swindlers.
Sleepless is a streaming hit on Tubi and is available to watch now. Make sure to stay tuned to Collider for more streaming stories.
Source: FlixPatrol
