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Dreamcatcher(2003 / R)
Ok, I actually watched this movie over a month ago and have been putting off reviewing it for quite some time. Why? I'm not sure... I think it's cuz the movie didn't clearly affect me in any sort of way.... good or bad. So let us analyze this film shall we... see if we can't figure out what rating it'll get...
Pros:
1. Jason Lee is in this movie. Jason Lee is one of my all time favorite actors (shut up Bryan!). Any time he's in a film it's a bonus.
2. There are these gross little creepy slimy alien things that have razor sharp teeth and burst out of your ass like a case of fatal and explosive diarreah. You may think that's gross, I say BAD ASS! The aliens in the film were cool!
3. The scenery was actually quite beatiful and some of the cinemetography was really eyecatching. This movie actually makes me want to visit Maine in the winter.
4. One of the characters get's taken over by an alien, and his encarceration in his mind, and the aliens attempts to infiltrate his minds secrets are played out very well!
Cons:
1. Jason Lee gets killed off almost immediately. Sure he dies a heroic death, but DON'T KILL JASON LEE! (shut up Bryan!)
2. Morgan Freeman turns in one of his worst performances of his career. He was so bad it distracted me from the film.
3. The plot ain't too coherent... and this isn't one of those films that is supposed to be all ambiguous.... it just didn't tie together really well.
4. Tom Sizemore acts poorly in this film. I like Tom Sizemore and all... but not here.
5. Donnie Wahlberg is in the movie. He plays a handicapped guy who is really an alien. Do I really need to explain how lame this is?
Okay, well there are more cons than pros here... I guess I'll go over the plot before we end this dealio.... I really don't feel like getting into too many details so I'm gonna rattle this of run-on sentence style.... here goes:
4 buddies since childhood (brought together by a psychic bond created when they stopped some bullies from feeding a handicapped kid poop) go to a cabin, in Maine, in the winter....for purposes of hunting and male bonding I guess...well they come across this fat sick guy who's infected by an alien, and they notice military helicopters flying by overhead, and the alien in the fat guy kills Jason Lee eventually (WHY GOD WHY!).. and two of the guys get into a car accident... and the other guy that didn't get killed by the alien get's taken over by the leader alien, and meanwhile the military is in on the notion that there has been an alien spaceship that has crashed somewhere nearby, and there's apparantly this dept. of our government that hunts down and kills aliens, and Morgan Freeman quarantines the area that the four buddies are in cuz of this alien infection that spreading...and the leader alien who has possessed Jason Lee's buddy is using his body to try and escape the quarantine.... and Morgan Freeman wants to nuke the whole area... but Tom Sizemore won't have any of it and goes against his mentor and teams up with one of the guys that was in the car accident who says they need to go get their retarded friend Donnie Wahlberg... who is really a good guy alien that knows how to defeat this evil alien... who is heading towards the reservoire to infect the waterways... so everybody converges on the reservoire...for the final showdown that I won't give away.....
man was that exhausting! And you know what...I'm not gonna go back and proof read it! So there! The movie had it's moments, but not enough... 2 1/2 is all I can muster.
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