Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

A Disappointing Continuation

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

If you can't sleep, you might as well watch a movie. If you make that movie "Chasing Sleep", you might even learn a thing a thing or two: (1) Don't skip class. Especially not if you're the professor. It'll be held against you. (2) Don't pick up the phone. Chances are it'll be trouble. (3) Don't go to the basement. Or the bathroom. There be demons. (4) Get the plumbing fixed before it's too late. And whatever it is, don't just flush it down. It's gonna come back up. (5) Don't trust pretty strangers who bring you soup. They have ulterior motives. And don't pretend we didn't warn you. (6) Don't trust your friends. They're not your friends. (7) Don't trust yourself. You're unreliable. - Finally, and most importantly, don't watch this movie alone at home at night.

"Chasing Sleep" is just another ordinary thriller and that's all. Nothing special but it has some good qualities. I just don't understand why this movie is referred as horror/thriller. What is scary in this movie? When I watch movies like this I always think of "Secret Window" with Johnny Depp and then I realize how good that movie really is. I just cannot compare "Chasing Sleep" with "Secret Window".Plot is about man who wakes up in his house and realizes that his wife didn't came to dinner. After while he decides to contact police in order to find her.There aren't many characters in this movie and whole movie is happening in house. It has that slow rhythm and it isn't interesting in all parts. Jeff Daniels is good in his role but he obviously cannot act like Johnny Depp and hold the whole movie on his back. Other actors are all from B list of actors who aren't stars but they do their job solid. Especially is good to see Julian McMahon because he acts perfectly in Nip/Tuck. I didn't like few parts of movie because I think that script in some parts isn't written good. Like that student character. She enters suddenly and goes out of the movie the same way she entered. Another thing I didn't like is that I knew how everything is going to end after 20 minutes of the film.Like I said before, ordinary thriller that can be done thousand times again but still with same effect. OK movie, but nothing more.

This is not a good movie to watch while waiting for your wife to come home late.. When my wife did came home she turned off the TV, so the ending was cut off, unfortunately.That said, Jeff Daniels does a very credible work as an actor in the movie. One can almost believe him as an insomniac professor who is just worried about his wife.Personally, I liked the girl who played the student (Emily Bergl I think). Her earnest acting showed through. Rest of the cast were nothing special.7/10, especially worth watching if you are not married.

Wouldn't this be a better world if today's talented thriller-makers knew how to end their films as well as they know how to start them and keep them going? Most of the time you'll be thinking "where has this movie been hiding all these years?", but at the end you'll almost be sorry that you invested the time to watch it in the first place. There is an undeniable mastery in the way Walker directs: first he grounds the film in reality, then he allows it to go on bizarre trips into the surreal, and all the time he moves the camera gracefully through the limited sets. Then comes the "say what?", non-explanatory ending, and it all goes to pieces. (**1/2)