Where was Insomnia filmed?

Early in the film Insomnia, Eckhart reveals his plan to testify against Dormer in an upcoming case. Dormer is being investigated by Internal Affairs, and if Eckhart testifies against him then he will be given immunity. Even though Eckhart will testify against his partner, he doesn’t think Dormer is guilty of anything.

Eckhart tells Dormer, “But you're clean, Will.”

Dormer’s response is, “I'm a good cop, yeah. But there's always something they could use to get at your credibility.”

Eckhart making this kind of revelation leads to clear tension between the partners, but they are not able to dwell on it for long because they have to keep investigating the Kay Connell case.

In this scene, Eckhart and Dormer are at the hotel in Nightmute where they will be staying for the length of the investigation. Like a majority of the movie, Squamish, British Columbia was used for this scene.

In the 2002 movie Insomnia, one of the most shocking scenes happens when Dormer shoots his partner, Eckhart. This is done by accident when the two are hoping to find the killer. Dormer has managed to lure the killer back to the original crime scene, but he makes a run for it.

The two detectives and other police start to chase him, and when Dormer notices a figure in the distance he shoots. He believed it was Kay Connell’s killer but instead finds that he fatally shot Eckhart. When Eckhart dies he is looking at Dormer and thinks his partner killed him on purpose because of the Internal Affairs investigation.

This leads Dormer to be confused by guilt and unable to sleep. At the same time, Alaska is experiencing 24-hour daylight, which makes it even worse on the detective.

During another scene of the movie, Burr mentions that there are two reasons cops can’t sleep.

She says, “A good cop can't sleep because he's missing a piece of the puzzle. And a bad cop can't sleep because his conscience won't let him.”

The scene of Dormer shooting and killing his partner was filmed near Vancouver, Canada at Clementine Creek.

Dormer decides to plant the gun he used to kill Eckhart at Finch’s apartment in order to blame the other man for the crime. In the movie, Finch’s apartment is found in the fictional town of Umkumuit, but the real location used for this scene was Vancouver Island. Dormer also believes Finch killed Kay Connell, but Finch denies it and says there is no proof.

Finch tells Dormer, “You have no evidence I killed Kay. You only know because I told you what I saw.”

Later on in the movie when Dormer is confronting Finch he tells him, “You don't get it do you Finch? You're my job. You're what I'm paid to do. You're about as mysterious to me as a blocked toilet is to a f***ing plumber. Reasons for doing what you did? Who gives a f***?”

In one of the final scenes of the movie, Dormer is up late talking to Rachel Clement, the owner of the hotel he has been staying at. He confides in her the reason behind the Internal Affairs investigation. Dormer admits to creating false evidence in order to put away a pedophile who he believed was guilty of killing a child. Dormer also reveals that had Eckhart testified like he planned to, the man that Dormer had convicted would have been released.

Rachel tells him, "I guess it's about what you thought was right at the time. Then, what you're willing to live with."

She then goes on to say, "I can't judge. There are two kinds of people in Alaska: those who were born here and those who come here to escape something. I wasn't born here."

Like many of the scenes in Insomnia, this scene was shot in Squamish, British Columbia.

When Dormer learns that Finch killed the teenage girl, Finch tries to claim it was an accident.

He says, “I didn't murder her. I killed her, but it just ended up that way."

A few scenes after this, at the end of Insomnia, Dormer and Finch struggle with each other and Dormer ends up getting shot. Dormer and Burr had managed to corner Finch and Dormer charged him when he got the chance. Dormer has Burr’s gone and Finch has a shotgun but in the struggle the two switch. Dormer ends up killing Finch with his own shotgun, and Dormer then gets shot with Burr’s gun.

This scene was filmed at Strohn Lake, which is in the Bear Glacier Provincial Park in British Columbia. This scene features the fictional lake known as Lake Kgun.

During the final scene of Insomnia, Dormer lies dying from a gunshot wound. He has already killed Finch and is bleeding out on the ice. Burr comforts him, and she says she will cover up what happened to Eckhart because she knows it was an accident. However, Dormer doesn’t want her to do that.

When she asks why, he says, “Don't lose your way.”

A few moments later he utters the last lines of the movie, and his final words before dying.

“Let me sleep.”

This scene, like many of the other final shots in Insomnia, was filmed in the Bear Glacier Provincial Park in British Columbia.