Awake

Welcome to my first movie critique! Although I saw this movie a while back it is still considered pretty new. Awake with Hayden Christensen (Star Wars), Jessica Alba (Honey), and Terrence Howard (Crash), is a thriller about an extremely wealthy young man named Clay Beresford (Hayden Christensen) who undergoes surgery and is not rendered completely unconcious through the anesthesia. This condition is widely known as Anesthesia Awareness.

While "Awake" during his operation Beresford learns of a plot to kill him for his wealth. The best part of the movie was when Beresford has an out of body experience otherwise known as Astral Projection. While out of his body, Hayden's character finds out the truth and tries to get the people around him to notice.

I won't spoil any more of it for you, but I must tell you about my personal experience first. Once I started watching the movie all I did was cry from the beginning. To the point that my mother left the living room, because she thought she was going to watch a depressing movie. The next thing you know there is a catalyst and everything starts to move at a fast pace.

Overall, a good movie. I would give it four stars. The movie has an amazing cast including Arlis Howard and Lena Olin whom I did not mention earlier, Hayden Christensen did an excellent job, and the plot was, to me, something new that someone has not tackled in a long time. My hat goes off to the cast for a job well done.