Les fleurs du secret

Plot seemed interesting at first, but completely lacked any originality, suspense, or genuine twist. Poor acting. A waste of time.

Such an epic fail...very boring and the plot is sluggish.

Sleeper is the story of the marriage between Kara Killmer and Brett Donahue. They seem like an ideal couple, he's a florist she a real estate agent. But Donahue has been keeping one big secret from her.

If anyone saw the Sidney Poitier/River Phoenix movie Little Nikita than you have some idea what's going on here. It also was not one of the best films for either of those two stars. But at least that film had those two going for it.

Apparently there are a whole lot of Sleeper agents in the USA left over from the Cold War and ready for use if things heat up. Donahue knows who and where they are, the Russians want him and so do we.

As for Killmer she hasn't a clue. But she spots hubby with a beautiful woman Rayisa Kondracki and assumes there's an affair. She starts poking into her husband's business and not in her wildest dreams did she suspect this.

Sleeper is just as far fetched as Little Nikita and not as good.

The thriller genre? Or the person next to you? Close to you? Actually a "real" sleeper wouldn't even know themselves now would they? But this is quite straight forward thriller stuff. And while I am fond of the main actress in this (not just visually speaking), it is not like she will hold your attention for the whole movie or run time.

Cliches come and go and I would think that most will be able to predict where this is going, even before it shows us any hint of that. Still I've seen so many other movies that are worse than this ... a tv thriller, that might float your boat then

I might have still given it two stars rather than one if only the acting were at least close to decent. Sorry, Kara Kilmer is no Keri Russel, Brett Donahue is no Matthew Rhys, and Barbara Gordon is surely no Margo Martindale. So there you have it, a whiter shade of pale.