Review of Dream House (2011) by Dan M — 29 Feb 2012

A successful business man (Daniel Craig), his wife (Rachel Weisz) and children move out of the city and into the New England countryside and no sooner then they do, then strange things start happening and they find out their home was the site of a grisly murder.

The first act of Dream House is as cliche' as it comes but, that's not the films biggest problem. The problem is that it makes it's big reveal about half way in and then turns into a totally different movie.

.. and not a very good one. Without giving anything crucial away, it evolves (or devolves) into a convoluted murder/mystery with silly supernatural overtones that collapses quickly under the ridiculousness of it's own story and has the gall to wrap things up with a neat little bow for it's climax.

Yes, after all that's happened, we are handed a happy, all's well climax that is harder to swallow then what we've just sat through. It's as if scribe David Loucka and director Jim Sheridan were making it up as they went along and then expected confidently that we'd all go along with it.

Guess again.