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" Every Thursday we recommend something available streaming on Netflix.      Stop me if you&amp;#039;ve heard this one before: Vincent (Tomer Sisley), a loose cannon of a police detective, finds himself trapped in close quarters with the band of well-armed terrorists who have kidnapped his young son, leaving it to him alone to outsmart his adversaries and save the day. Perhaps Sleepless Night, a low-budget thriller by French filmmaker Fr\u00E9d\u00E9ric Jardin, isn&amp;#039;t the most original action flick to emerge in recent years, but as variations on the time-tested &amp;quot;Die Hard in an X&amp;quot; template go, it is nevertheless among the best. The &amp;quot;X,&amp;quot; in this case, is a high-class nightclub fully loaded with well-dressed dancers and drunks, which proves to be an intriguing twist on the formula. Not only must Vincent navigate a building that his enemies, as its drug-dealing owners, know more intimately than he does; he must also slip in and around its clueless patrons, who he uses alternately as cover and impromptu backup. (At one point, Vincent, having hidden his handgun behind a table, can&amp;#039;t squeeze past to retrieve it without the douchebags drinking bottle service telling him to get lost.) Waging a one-man war against a small army is all well and good, but try doing it while contending with girls in little black dresses ordering cocktails all around you. Sleepless Night keeps much about its story familiar, and many of its surprise double-crosses and last-minute turnabouts will seem predictable to those who know the genre well. But this is all very much deliberate. Taking a well-known genre framework and replicating it precisely frees the film up to focus on the execution, which it summarily nails: Sleepless Night flies ahead at breakneck speed, crashing from one major set piece to another without stopping to take a breath. Because it knows that we expect the usual story beats, it delivers them as promised while doubling down on the intensity, and the result succeeds in wowing from one moment to the next even when the moments themselves seem telegraphed far in advance. Jardin has a rare talent for conveying a clear sense of visual space \u2014 by the end of the film you feel like you know the layout of the nightclub, from its kitchen freezer to its managerial offices, down to the smallest detail \u2014 and he uses this skill to his advantage by making every movement matter. Few films, especially action films, care enough to illustrate the spaces in which they&amp;#039;re set; even fewer make the arrangement of characters within that space a matter of almost chess-like delicacy and importance. When Vincent kicks through a dining-room door into a stairwell, we know exactly where he is in relation to the men who are chasing him, and we know why that matters. The result is exhilarating even when it&amp;#039;s just two men skulking around in two seemingly unrelated rooms. Watch on Netflix now. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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