Excellent film with a gripping story!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Sleeper is a great comedy science fiction- a sub- genre which barely has any recommendations. Set in a future with Government oppression Woody Allen plays his usual neurotic self and is ably supported by a gorgeous Diane Keaton. Sleeper is one of the most underrated Allen films and there is no reason why you shouldn't see this one.

Sleeper belongs to the initial phase of Woody Allen's filmography when his films were more skewed towards slapstick and farcical humour instead of narrative cohesion. But I didn't need narrative coherence as much, to be honest when the lines being spoken are so funny. One liners galore and Allen's sharp and sarcastic humour is really the star attraction of the film. Also Allen was clearly paying a tribute to the slapstick-comedy films of the silent era. The slapstick montages in the film accompanied by uptempo jazz music are very reminiscent to similar scenes of films starring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton,etc. Along with being immensely witty, this film shows that Woody Allen also used to be an exponent of physical comedy.But underneath the craziness on the surface, there is social commentary taking place through satire. Through the narrative structure of a man from 1973 being sent to the future, Allen was satirizing and poking fun at the contemporary American society of 1970s. There is a bit of similarity between 'Sleeper' and Yorgos Lanthimos' 'The Lobster'. Both these films critique the totalitarian establishment and the pretentious bourgeois culture in the first half, but the second half to some extent undercuts the message of the first half by critiquing the organised rebellion. This is why I think just like 'The Lobster', 'Sleeper' is a film that upholds the concept of individualism and the need to retain your own, unique identity in an ideologically segmented society when you don't completely identify with either side of the ideological divide.Visually the film looks very much like the sci-fi films of the era. The sets and props look very similar to the ones that you find in something like 'The Andromeda Strain' or 'THX 1138'. The camera doesn't do anything remarkable, but the film moves forward at a breakneck speed. The chemistry between Allen and Diane Keaton is brilliant. Their banter makes the film so much more colourful. The film lacks narrative balance at times as we rush from one scene to the next. But 'Sleeper' is a genuinely witty and sharply humorous film that anyone can find rewarding.

I would go into hysterics if I were to have aluminum foil pulled off my face and find out that I was no longer in Greenwich Village 1973 and in a civilization run by a nose some 200 years later. That's the plight that Woody Allen faces in this science fiction farce where he is seen waking up from a two century nap as if he was a combination of Stan Laurel and Buster Keaton. Slowly snapping out of his Rip Van Winkle sleep, he finds himself at the mercy of rebel force scientists and the army protecting the commander who presents God like messages at the end of the television airing day yet has taken away most of the world's freedoms. In Woody Allen's hands, this is science fiction satire at its darkest and funniest, and what happens in the next 90 minutes will either have you shaking your head in annoyance over the silliness or laughing your head off.I am in the party of the second part, chuckling hysterically at the antics surrounding Woody and his kidnapping victim, Diane Keaton, whom he abducted after she discovered that he was wanted by the military for scientific study. Woody ultimately gets under her skin, not creep-crawly like a bug, but winning her favor by showing her how things used to be, that sex didn't have to take place in a tube and last a mere 30 seconds. Posing as a robot butler in their initial sequence, Woody beats up a blob of some kind in her kitchen, later brings her giant celery sticks, strawberries and bananas, and a big piece of cheese the size of a semi truck tire. He ends up in a tree thanks to a non-working jet pack, ends up floating around in a huge rubber suit that seems to defy him of gravity, and ultimately has an ingenious way of disposing of the leader's nose.This has just the slightest of stories, but the sight gags that help it move briskly along are often tear enducingly funny. Robots equipped with Jewish accents (provided by Jackie Mason), ultra feminine gay mannerisms and those idle simply bumping into walls or even having their heads ripped off show from Woody's mind what our future could be like. Woody is hysterical as he goes through pictures of several 19th and 20th century figures and describes what he recalls them to be. But as I mentioned, this is not a comedy for every taste. Growing up, I recall my father laughing hysterically at this when first shown on TV and my mother shaking her head and rolling her eyes in disgust. The film really isn't dirty at all other than several minor references to sexual activity and perhaps some of Woody's Jewish New York references might go above the heads of those unfamiliar with that culture. But for a Goy like me with experience dealing with Jewish New Yorkers professionally and socially, the references are more than familiar, and that made it all the more funny.

I recently watched this film again, in this futuristic year 2015. (My mind is comprised of its own original thinking parts).This film has all kinds of current themes about time travel, artificial humanoids, synthetic intelligence, worldwide corporate/government control, identity, media influence, cultural change, and so on and on.Much of it resembles recent sci-fi tropes in movies and TV... mixed with Woody Allen's satiric and slapstick comedy, and Diane Keaton's wonderful acting.I wonder if Philip K. Dick ever saw this film.I wonder what is meant by "sexual nightmares"... And what is "Aries Day"?? Could it be the actuation of fast CLONING of the Great Leader himself? Along with his nose?