Brilliantly gripping film with lots of twist and second guessing. The only thing that annoyed me was the fact that the director made a huge error forgetting to explain Claire's role... oops! But decides that it's well worth a watch!

Despite Nicole Kidman not being as likable as say a Jennifer Aniston would have been, this film is engaging, complex, and well put together. Colin Firth and Mark Strong's performances are outstanding. Kidman is annoying but her work is acceptable. In fact, Strong's work carries this film. As is often the case, if this movie had a Aniston, Jennifer Lawrence, or a Rachel McAdams type lead, it would have been amazing. That said, it is still a good film. Unfortunately, I would like to find out what happened to the last five minutes. Without giving any spoilers, those last few minutes were boring, drawn out (without reason), uneventful, and anti- climatic. I didn't read the book so perhaps this is one of those adaptation disasters wherein the book reads fine but when put on film, it goes off the rails. So much so, I was wondering what I missed because it was so bad.Overall, film is worth a watch and is good. I just wish those last few minutes hadn't left such a bad taste in my mouth.

This movie is a mystery thriller around a woman suffering from a rare amnesia condition due to a serious trauma and who, therefore, wakes up every day thinking she is twenty years old and not even remembering her marriage. The idea would be very interesting if it had been well developed by the script, but it didn't. As the film goes by, the villain becomes too obvious, as are the plot holes. One of the most obvious is the marriage of Christine (the name of the character, played by Nicole Kidman): if her condition of amnesia causes her to forget only the memories from a given moment of life forward, and if that moment happened when she was already married or, at least, the girlfriend of the one who would become her husband, how could she forget his face? This is just an example of a plot hole I discovered. I will not give more so I will not spoil the whole story. Kidman was OK but not amazing; Colin Firth starts slowly but improves with the film's advance; Mark Strong does a good supporting role but does not have room to do much.

I spent every second of this movie knowing one simple thing, that all the characters are probably not who or what they seem, thus, whatever twist that was inevitably on the way, automatically felt diluted because of it's obvious approach.Colin Firth not being Ben I'll admit, I didn't see. I thought maybe Firth was "Ben the Abuser" of course acting like the protector, and whomever else was Mike "The Protector" who somehow got silenced by Ben. And Mark Strong, well, I kept teetering there. Then there's the real Ben, who, if you ask me; him keeping absolutely no contact for four years straight, with someone he loves most in the world, is unforgivable and somewhat, implausible... And it's that story arc this movie uses to throw the viewer off, but... I don't know, it's a bit, hokey... even with trying to justify it through Adam.Before I Go To Sleep didn't demand my attention, but it was by no stretch of the imagination, bad. The cinematography and direction was adequate and fair. The story, predictable, however not in the more traditional sense, which is why a 6.8/10 can suffice.This film is not memorable, but it is all right and above board. I would've really just preferred to give it a solid 7/10... But, it's after taste is already fading.