Review of Dreamscape (1984) by Dave J — 16 May 2012

Thursday, January 13, 2011.

(1984) Dreamscape.

THRILLER/ FANTASY.

Footnote: I'll tell you this right now, the poster is a bit misleading anyone expecting this film to be like the Indiana Jones or the Pirates of the Caribean series are going to be gravely disappointed because this is what adventurous movie posters 'do' look like! And then they're others such as myself who're 'not' going to determine what kind of movie it is by 'looking' at the poster and tend to watch any film oblivious to what it's about! This is one of those movies in which the synopsis should be read first so that they would know what to expect!

After my second viewing since my first experience about watching this was when I was still a kid and I was more interested in the actions of it's characters than the actual storyline itself, such as good guys win and bad guys lose because any young kid could instinctively tell who're the the good guys by looking at there happy faces wearing bright clothes from the bad the bad guys who're always angry with serious looks wearing dark clothes!

Anyways, in my opinion the sole idea for Christopher Nolan's big box office hit "Inception" originally derived from this film since this is a very straight forward story about a teenager with telepathic abilities who eventually able to come to grips with his ability to enter into other people's dreams! Anyways, he's being found out about this ability and being sought after to parttake into a gov't experiment facility starring a young Dennis Quaid to have him enter other people's dreams to overcome or assist people who repeatedly contain nightmare problems whenever they're sleeping! As the movie progresses viewers should expect mishaps and gov't corruption! What this film does very well what "Inception" fails to do are the revealations which're self- explantory and gradual which allow viewers a chance to consume what they know whereas in "Inception" the whole film feels somewhat imposed upon and automatic and a common occurance that happens all the time with it's lead stars before leaving viewers hanging at the end meaning that "Dreamscape" has an ending and a very satisfying one at that. The only downside is that with a running time of only 99 minutes, with all the ingredients that it has, it does have the opportunity to be longer than what it is, making viewers such as myself wanting to see more because the possibility of more revealtions but because this film wasn't a big boxoffice hit, this is what we're left with! Besides a young Dennis Quaid, Christopher Plummer, Max Von Sydow, and a younger Kate Capshaw ( wife of director Steven Spielberg in real life) also stars in this!

3 out of 4.