I seem to recall taping it the only time it ran on TV - I thought it wasn't a movie but the pilot for a show that was never picked up. I also recall liking it, although if memory serves there was some terrible catchphrase like "Hoot Hoot, dirtbag" that was said when a bad guy got his behind kicked, or something awful like that.
This may have been more apparent in implication than in statement, but I thought that his insomnia was caused not by a pre-existing medical condition but by exposure to an illegal, experimental and highly addictive drug, (possibly at the same time as the trauma of his family's death?) causing the images to sort of "burn" themselves into his brain and immediately wake him up every time he fell deeply enough asleep to dream. The plausibility of this is low, since people who don't sleep go crazy (really crazy. You start seeing things, and not in a good way. Before this came out I once spent a week awake - not a good idea, trust me.)
Anyways, the bit at the end with the bike and the tank of water is.... predictably silly and one of the clichés mocked so rightly by many a movie these days. Other than those flaws I remember liking it a lot.
This may have been more apparent in implication than in statement, but I thought that his insomnia was caused not by a pre-existing medical condition but by exposure to an illegal, experimental and highly addictive drug, (possibly at the same time as the trauma of his family's death?) causing the images to sort of "burn" themselves into his brain and immediately wake him up every time he fell deeply enough asleep to dream. The plausibility of this is low, since people who don't sleep go crazy (really crazy. You start seeing things, and not in a good way. Before this came out I once spent a week awake - not a good idea, trust me.)
Anyways, the bit at the end with the bike and the tank of water is.... predictably silly and one of the clichés mocked so rightly by many a movie these days. Other than those flaws I remember liking it a lot.