Chasing Sleep
- Professor Ed Saxon (Jeff Daniels, Dumb And Dumber) awakens one morning to find his wife has not returned from work. He spends countless days and nights in a downward spiral of paranoia and sleeplessness. To make matters worse, Ed is having hallucinations the house comes alive with an array of horrifying sights and sounds and the line between nightmare and reality is blurred beyond distinction. Thi
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Professor ed saxon awakens one morning to find his wife has not returned from work. He spends countless days and nights in a downward spiral of paranoia and sleeplessness. To make matters worse ed is having hallucinations the house comes alive with an array of horrifying sights and sounds. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 08/16/2005 Starring: Jeff Daniels Gil Bellows Run time: 104 minutes Rating: R
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This movie was a complete and utter waste of time, I don’t think there was a single redeeming feature about it except for maybe the laughability of the crawling finger sequence.
Chasing Sleep started out looking as though it might be alright, but about halfway through the movie, everything went downhill. The plot had potential to be interesting, but just ended up more confusing than frightening and the ending was one of the absolute worst I’ve seen in a VERY long time. If nothing else, I would have liked to have seen them tie up all the loose ends in the end of the movie, but you get nothing.
To get to the point, this movie isn’t worth the time or the money involved in watching it. I would have given it a “0″ rather than a “1″ if that were an acceptable rating.
Rating: 1 / 5
Chasing Sleep
couldnt save this stinker. Attempts to be surreal and perverse and succeeds at neither. You wait the whole movie for a tie up to answer some questions, and you get nothing. Daniels is a professor whose wife never comes home, and you spend the movie wondering if he made her disappear or not. I won’t spoil it for those who won’t heed my warning.
Rating: 2 / 5
Chasing Sleep
“Chasing Sleep” is titled in France as “Insomnies” and that fact will let you know enough what the film is all about. But unlike the Norwegian thriller (and its Hollywood remake) of the same name, “Chasing Sleep” is less like a thriller than a character study even though there is elements of thriller in it. Perhaps it is this mislead expectations of mine that made me feel disappointed at the film.
The film follows the central character, Jeff Daniel’s Ed Saxon, whose life heavily suffers from insomnia which started when he finds his wife is missing. Ed is waiting for her at home all through the night, but as he waits we notice something is wrong with his house — strange noise behind the wall, unfamiliar voice, and more and more weird and unnerving occasions. Ed is certain something must have happened to her — but soon we realize that it is Ed that is really falling apart.
The idea is good, and the camera successfully keeps on conveying the creepy atomosphere of Ed’s house, but the lack of fenesse in keeping us interested is too apparent on the side of director Michael Walker, who says the film is partly based on his personal experience. To his credit, the strange feelings you get when you stay up late till dawn are convincingly created, and the acting of Jeff Daniels, who usually is forced to play the supporting roles as in “Speed,” shows his gift as a talented actor, becoming the character Ed himself. But the question is, sorry to say like this, but, why should we care?
The film doesn’t hold our (or my) attention long, because the film goes nowhere (everything happens all in Ed’s house, and this setting is too high a hurdle to clear). While we don’t know what happened to Ed’s wife, the film tries to project Ed’s lost dreams in the past and his regret onto the screen through the events that are slowly revealed in the film, but by the time we come to know Ed’s personality, we know the film offers nothing new to find in the film. Emliy Bergl (”Carrie 2″) and Gil Bellows (”Ally McBeal”) both give good support, but their precious help is hardly enough to keep the ball rolling.
There are truely intense and creepy moments in the film, including a certain moving finger, but the overall results really disappointed me. As some of the previous reviewers say, we have already films dealing with similar themes by a better hand of David Lynch, whose more confident vision for the macabre and weird is sadly missing here.
Rating: 2 / 5
Chasing Sleep
A huge disappointment. I’ve read all the reviews and I have to wonder if I watched the same movie that everyone else did. I love Jeff Daniels and think that he is a talented actor. I am also a fan of up and coming Julian McMahon. All I can say is that their talent is wasted. If you wanted a David Lynch …, don’t waste your time - why not go to the master himself and rent Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive. As for horror, the Evil Dead series is by far the best in low budget fun, Bruce Campbell’s lopped off hand by far excedes the inchworm effect of Daniel’s finger. I found myself having a hard time staying awake during this movie and in fact was counting sheep.
Rating: 1 / 5
Chasing Sleep
Yeah, yeah, call it a David Lynchian thriller, but Chasing Sleep is definitely Lynch Lite, with a dash of The Sixth Sense thrown in. The “surprise” ending isn’t really that surprising and the water-and-rusting-pipes imagery (a surefire metaphor for the slowly imploding mind of the main character) is definitely overused. A few good moments, though (most of the surreal beginning) but some laughable scenes as well (the rotting giant baby in the bath tub and a caterpillar-like, squirming severed finger). All in all, if you crave some creepy stuff, buy Session 9 instead.
Rating: 3 / 5
Chasing Sleep