Review of Mean Dreams (2016) by John S — 31 Dec 2016
Bill Paxton is bad. Really bad. Sneaky, snaky, snarky bad. Bad in a good way. His soothing, southern drawl and calm demeanour, belie a seething monster. A crooked cop. An abusive father. Evil.
As victims, we get two sweet teenagers stumbling through a crush, saddled with life in a a bleak farming community, who, due to unfortunate circumstance, become fugitives on the lam. It's meat and potatoes cinema: good vs. bad, with little chance of anything going right. Afterall, the cops are the bad guys: whatcha gonna do?
"Mean Dreams" captures vast landscape loneliness, no future hopelessness, tense survival conflict, with fumbling teenagers groping for their footing in life. It's a tense, gripping thrill ride that offers no easy answers, and very muddy avenues. A great down and dirty movie, in the literal sense.
- hipCRANK.
This review of Mean Dreams (2016) was written by John S on 31 Dec 2016.
Mean Dreams has generally received positive reviews.
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