“Rapid Eye Movement” (** out of four) was a genuinely strange thriller about an egomaniacal radio-DJ (Francois Arnaud) seeking publicity and attempts to break the 11-day record for staying awake but this causes his sanity to gradually fall apart especially when a psychotic caller calls up and threatens to kill him if he falls asleep! Writer-director Peter Bashai tells the story at a frantic pace, to mirror his main character’s sanity and psychological duress, and has some stylish visuals but it winds up a waste of time, since story and script are pretentious and unpleasant. Similar in parts to “Phone Booth” with Colin Farrell/Kiefer Sutherland which was richer and leaner.