Sleepless

A crooked Las Vegas cop (Jamie Foxx) runs afoul of a drug-dealing casino owner (Dermot Mulroney), who grabs the cop’s teenage son (Octavius J. Johnson) and holds him hostage till the 25 kilos the cop stole are returned—but an Internal Affairs detective (Michelle Monaghan) intercepts the drugs and the cop has to play for time. This grimly mindless shoot-’em-up is based on a 2011 French picture that was in turn inspired by American movies from The French Connection to Die Hard and Taken—in other words, this one is derivative two times over. If such twice-and-thrice-removed movies are your cup of hemlock, you’ll find no surprises to rattle your expectations. Foxx stalks and snarls for his paycheck, Gabrielle Union is wasted as his estranged wife, and Switzerland’s Baran bo Odar directs with heavy fists. J.L.