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Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Gary Oldman, Malcolm McDowell, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Mike Kaplan, Reed Diamond, Rob Zombie and Walk Of Fame - Garcelle Beauvais, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Malcolm McDowell, Rob Zombie, Reed Diamond, Mike Kaplan and Gary Oldman Friday 16th March 2012 The Hollywood Walk of Fame honors Malcolm McDowell on Hollywood Boulevard

Malcolm Mcdowell, Garcelle Beauvais-nilon, Mark-paul Gosselaar, Reed Diamond and Walk Of Fame

Garcelle Beauvais-nilon, Malcolm Mcdowell and Walk Of Fame

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead Review

By Chris Barsanti

Very Good

To say that the new Mike Hodges film I'll Sleep When I'm Dead confounds expectations doesn't even really begin to describe what this beguiling curiosity does, which shouldn't really be surprise, as Hodges is the director who's given us everything from 1998's Croupier to the Max von Sydow campfest Flash Gordon. Shot mostly in the seedier parts of Brixton (non-swinging London), I'll Sleep is just as ill-concerned with looking like a flash gangster flick - which, in some strange sense, it is - than it is with marrying its two wildly divergent plot strands.

In the first, seemingly primary story, we follow Davey Graham (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) on his none-too-taxing nightly rounds: a little coke-delivery to a fancy party, then a one-nighter with a blonde model (whom he robs), and then to home. Only he's being followed by some tuxedo-wearing rent-a-thugs and a malevolent Malcolm McDowell, who assault him in a shockingly horrific manner - it's quick and brutal, a Hodges specialty, and completely out of nowhere, like a random visit from the Devil. This leaves Davey emotionally shattered and he commits suicide not longer after.

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