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Summary: Successful publisher Will Atenton (Craig) quit a job in New York City to relocate his wife, Libby (Weisz), and two girls to a quaint New England town. But as they settle into their new life, they discover their perfect home was the murder scene of a mother and her children. (imdb)
Eh, the movie had a house in it I guess. The police in this movie are all 50 year old fat men. "No, that's ridiculous" You're right on that one Mr Craig. I bet the makers of this were told about Shutter Island and were all "AW FUCK". Oh and another thing ... what the fuck is with the end credit music, what were they thinking? WHAT
Naomi Watts, and even Daniel Craig are completely wasted here. The plot is generic for the first half, and then a bad version of Shutter Island for the second half. At least the twist kept things different, but even with that it was pretty boring. The worst Jim Sheridan movie I've seen thus far by quite a bit. The dialogue is pretty bad - laughable at times.
A cloddish, Shyamalan-ish SHUTTER ISLAND knockoff, stuffed with wanna-be eerie booga-booga moments that are just nonsensical (and insulting, if you think about them too much). It's kind of surprising to see class actors like Craig, Weisz, and Watts--and a generally adept director like Sheridan--floundering around in such a weak, reticent, small-time genre dud like this one. Forget it; I'm sure they already have.
Nicely started drama went wrong as soon as the viewer realized what was really going on. The rest of the story was baloney. Both small girls acted good, though the fever scene was not that successful.
An absolute atrocity of M. Night Shyamalan-esque plot devices and empty, meaningless narrative methods. The stacked cast of Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, and Rachel Weisz are completely wasted and led to give one-sided, static emotional performances reminiscent of what you might see in a cheesy, soap-opera mystery. The movie twists and twists until all of its potential complexities and themes are unwoven into a showing of simple, antiquated, and predictable suspense-less fluff.
The biggest waste of a talented (in other movies, that is) cast and decent budget I have probably ever seen. Any surrealist touches you might be expecting from hearing about the movie are kept to a minute of a dream sequence but the main problem is the writing. Unbelievably horrendous. Everything is plotted around the twist; the first, predictable, and the next, jarringly stupid. So poorly constructed that I doubt I'll ever forget it. And that really sucks.
At times Dream House is an intriguing psychological horror movie. At others its a bland and confusing thriller. The film's terrible third act, expository finish and ridiculous action movie ending tip the scales enough into negative territory to warrant a Thumbs Down.