Genre: Thriller
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Starring: Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts, and Marton Csokas
Running time: 92 minutes
Dream House attempts to bring the viewers on a thrill ride down a tortuous road filled with plot twists and turns. Is it successful? Only partially.
This film starts with Will Atenton (Daniel Craig), a successful editor in Manhattan, who is on his last day at his job. He is quitting and leaving the city, saying he wants to spend more time with his family. They are moving to a house, where, he comes to find out, some brutal murders were committed five years earlier. As it is often the case in movies, things are never exactly what they seem to be. And, here starts the attempt at a thrill ride.
The story itself is compelling, quite interesting. The main fault I find with this movie is the acting. I have always found Daniel Craig to be too dry of a performer on the big screen. Even as James Bond, he always tends to bore me. In this one, he tries to show more fire, and he achieves it sometimes, but his performance is very uneven overall. Same goes with the rest of the cast.
Another fault I find with Dream House is that it offers some big doses of hokeyness, though I don’t believe it is meant to be that way. When a movie is voluntarily corny, it can be charming. When it tries to be serious and often fails, it is a different story.
So, in conclusion, Dream House has some interesting plot twists the viewer did not expect at first and an interesting story to tell, but it fails on the delivery.
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