DVD Review - Awake

By Rob Sullivan on March 1, 2008 5:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I have to admit that when I recieved this movie to review I wasn't sure what to expect. In fact I was expecting more of a horror move to review on our other website - the Haunted Report.

That's not to say I'm disappointed - far from it in fact. This was an awesome movie.

In the movie, a rich man (Hayden Christensen) is in need of a heart transplant. Luckily his doctor (played by Terrence Howard) manages to find him a heart in seemingly record time. Christensen's girlfriend (Jessica Alba) accompanies him to the hospital to await his transplant. All along, his mother (played by Lena Olin) has concerns with the whole procedure.

While the operation seems to be status quo, we soon learn that Christensen's character undergoes "Anesthetic Awareness" in which he is not in fact properly anesthetized and can hear, and more importantly feel everything that happens to him.

Now, just thing about that for a second. Imagine if you were the one having to feel your own open heart surgery without anesthesia.

he manages to hold on and regresses deep into his own mind in order to deal with the pain.

But the movie isn't just about the suffering he goes through during the operation. There are a couple twists, which I won't mention here because I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't seen the movie. Let's just say they are unexpected.

I won't give away too many more details. Instead, here are some stills from the movie: