Sleeper

However, every ten minutes or so, the film manages to pull off some pretty neat special effects, and the whole film positively swims with mod 60's atmosphere. However, the Italians usually counteract those flaws with three virtues: amazing musical scores, gorgeous visuals, and a willingness to catapult themselves over any line of sanity and taste that might be encountered in filmmaking (something they have in common with Hong Kong filmmakers). ... Full Review

Sleeper is the best of them.....Watch out for a prophetic vision of GM foods and listen out for the wonderful score..... ... Full Review

It is the same pathetic no-hoper turned reluctant hero story of several other Woody Allen movies, and in this respect is pretty much the same as the other film in our double bill - Sleeper - only set in the past rather than the future. ... Full Review

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2005 Filmcritic.com Pound for pound and minute for minute, Sleeper may just have more laughs in it than any other Woody Allen movie. There's a plot involving the overthrow of a totalitarian regime -- but hey, this place doesn't look too bad to me -- but mostly this is a hysterical platform for Allen to poke fun at the sexual revolution of the '70s by forecasting it to its absurd and illogical conclusion. ... Full Review

The film's slapstick moments outshine its dialogue....Now pour the whole shebang onto celluloid and you have Sleeper , Woody Allen's oddball mix of silent movie madness and futuristic paranoia.....A light-hearted, out-of-this-world tribute to the silent movie, with some big laughs.... ... Full Review