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[Highly rated reviewer]

Can happen to you and me !!!!! "Anesthesia awareness"

My mum woke up under a hip operation - 20 years ago .. we have never talked about - she still avoid it .. but the day after the operation when I visit her - she where lime green in her face and totally in shock - she was shaking. I think my mum expericance where fare more scary then this movie can show us.

Back to the movie - It's okay ... but only that.

It's a reasonable story with a predictable end, nothing special here except the tension it creates. The biggest deficit is leaving you cold with an ending that lacked the revenge that you so wanted the evildoers to experience. I mean come on, at least have the black doctor commit suicide in his office during the wrap up - that would have made me feel a lot better. I see from other comments that the operating room/surgery was full of errors - I didn't notice or care since I am not a doctor; it looked legitimate to a casual viewer like me. Is this worth seeing, yes. Is it a great movie, NO!! Decide for yourselves.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Awake

Not too bad a film if you are into medical dramas with love story thrown in, but it's the bit about being 'awake' while undergoing major surgery that spooks...!! We didn't even know there was such a condition until we watched this little thriller, but then again, his best mate, the surgeon and the other staff have an ulterior motive anyway...