Dreamcatcher

Year: 2003

Grade: C

Country: USA

Director: Kasdan

Review

the first two thirds of the film were well paced. kasden took plenty of time to set up some mystery and allow the characters to be fully introduced to the audience. despite the fact that a lot of the elements are borrowed from previous stephen king work (namely creepshow, the shining and stand by me). i was pretty into the movie for most of the way through. the last third, though, seemed to fall apart into some sort of lazy hollywood heap. i don’t know exactly how it all went wrong. perhaps it was following the worst actor of the main group of four buddies or maybe it was the independence day twist in the story or maybe it was donnie wahlberg that did it. i’m not sure. having the inside of a character’s thoughts and memories as a literal physical place was a pretty good device, but was taken too far and as a result just seemed like lazy writing.

from imdb.com:
“I really liked this movie. I honestly don’t thing a movie from Stephen King has ever been about alien invasion. This was very entertaining and very thrilling. I was never bored once. The music was creepy. The acting was very good. This is one of the few Stephen King based book movie that is very good. I recommend this movie to anyone who loves a good horror flick or a movie that is based on Stephen King book.”

Watched in theater