Insomnia

Detectives Dormer (Al Pacino) and Eckhart (Martin Donovan) are sent from L.A. to the remote community of Nightmute Alaska to assist with the investigation of the murder of a 17yr old woman. This is unusual but the local Police have asked for assistance and it also gets them out of the immediate grasp of an ongoing Internal Affairs investigation that may implicate one or both of them. When they arrive they are greeted by Det. Burr (Hilary Swank) who is a follower of Dormer who is somewhat of a famous solver of tough murder cases.

Nightmute is inside the Arctic circle and as it's summer has day round daylight. Dormer can't sleep.

No good will come of this.

Christopher Nolan does Police procedural with some fun twists to it.

This is a remake of a Norwegian movie and before Nolan got totally meta with explainers required so it's very firmly in layered but believable. Much as I enjoyed TENET he needs to calm the fuck down.

At over twenty years old it has noughties Detective movie all over it but in a good way. The murder itself isn't that outre, this was when people had got over Se7en and weren't trying to outdo each other with grimness. It's just a taught layered story about what people are willing to do in order to get the necessary thing done.

Solid stuff all round 7/10.