The Minute You Wake up Dead
Directed by Michael Mailer
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- jackmeatOctober 12, 2025My quick rating - 4.0/10. What a massively wasted cast. If you look at those names, you would assume you are going to be in for a decent little crime thriller, but instead, you are left with an unsatisfying feeling of misspent time. Morgan Freeman just phones in his performance with no enthusiasm. Jaimie Alexander has to attempt to carry this insurance scam-gone-wrong flick. In this small town, it seems as soon as there is money involved, everyone in town wants a piece of the action, and it is up to Sheriff Freeman to figure it all out once bodies start piling up. Everyone in this flick just seemed bored unless they were getting parts of their body cut off. Granted, that doesn't happen often enough to make it a selling point. There is so little mystery to what is going on that it ends up being more tedious just watching such talent plodding through the motions to get to the finale. I felt as though I was watching a big-budget TV movie since this cast couldn't be cheap. But the story is a snoozefest, so quick and to the point, don't bother unless you are a huge fan of anyone you see below.
The Minute You Wake up Dead Trivia
The Minute You Wake up Dead was released on December 13, 2022.
The Minute You Wake up Dead was directed by Michael Mailer.
The Minute You Wake up Dead has a runtime of 90m.
The Minute You Wake up Dead was produced by Andrew Stevens.
A stockbroker in a small southern town gets embroiled in an insurance scam with a next-door neighbor that leads to multiple murders when a host of other people want in on the plot. Sheriff Thurmond Fowler, the by-the-book town sheriff for over four decades, works earnestly to try and unravel the town’s mystery and winds up getting more than he bargained for.
The key characters in The Minute You Wake up Dead are Jason (Cole Hauser), Delaine (Jaimie Alexander), Sheriff Thurmond Fowler (Morgan Freeman).
The Minute You Wake up Dead is rated R.
The Minute You Wake up Dead is a Thriller, Drama, Mystery film.
The Minute You Wake up Dead has an audience rating of 1.8 out of 10.
The Minute You Wake up Dead has made $35,162 at the box office.