Film Review – Sleeping Dogs (2024)

“Sleeping Dogs” is an adaptation of a 2017 novel by Eugen Chirovici, with Adam Cooper making his directorial debut with the picture. Cooper and his screenwriting partner, Bill College, have a very strange filmography, co-scripting such movies as “The Transporter Refueled,” “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” and the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen comedy, “New York Minute,” and they bring some of that creative oddity to “Sleeping Dogs.” It’s a slice of detective fiction, following an ex-cop’s investigation into a murder he was previously involved with, dealing with new evidence and the degenerative effects of Alzheimer’s disease as he searches for clues. The premise has some potential, but Cooper doesn’t oversee a motivated endeavor, going sluggish with this collection of suspects and entanglements. The feature has a capable lead performance from Russell Crowe, but little else feels remarkable about the effort, which doesn’t provide a hearty enough whodunit to really pull viewers in. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com