Review of Dreamcatcher (2003) by Daniel E. M — 25 Feb 2011

You ever make a stu, and didn't know what to put in it? So, you grab several ingredients, mix them all together, and hope for the best? Then, you decide that it's not even worth bothering with once it's all done? That's the best way I know how to describe this crapfest.

It looks like a buddy movie at first, then it contracts into a creature feature/psychological thriller/ etc. It could've passed pretty well for what it started out resembling, but it goes all Stephen King on us, and we soon have aliens invaders, the four guys having some sort of supernatural abillities, and one becoming possessed, and developing a very annoying accent.

There is a scene that stands out, for all the wrong reasons, where you have a guy farting up a storm, full of blood, sitting on the john. He craps out some alien looking worm then dies. Coincedentally, that's when the film seemed to die, as well.

In a King interview, he said he had the idea for a toilet scene for one of his books, and just wrote a story around that. Needless to say, it shows. For the story is all over the place. Never seems to know where it wants to go, but not long into it I knew exactly where I wanted it to go, and that was straight to the closing credits.

The film goes from being mildly amusing to tedious so fast it made my head spin. It was quite the surprise. A surprise, even bigger than that though, was seeing the appearance of usually reliable actor Morgan Freeman in this thing.

It's hard to even comprehend what could've attracted him to this part. The film is tiresome, excruciating, and leaves you with a feeling that you had just stood by while watching a train wreck.

The absolute worst movie viewing experience that I've had in a long, loooong time.