Dream House
What can do a talented director and very good actors when the script is so lame and laborious that it eventually bored instead of captivate. This is what happens to “Dream House” which could be a fabulous thriller on the family and the loss.
The arrival of Will Atenton (Daniel Craig) is not welcomed by the inhabitants of a small village. Although the father is focused on protecting his wife (Rachel Weisz) and his two children, he knows that something is brewing on the horizon. It may still rely on his new neighbor (Naomi Watts) to steer properly.
Two separate entities appear to have “Dream House”. The first part develops faux horror suspense intriguing though quite predictable. Like M. Night Shyamalan wanted to do a remake of “The Shining” by crossing them with “The Others”. What pique the curiosity that is never rewarded as improbabilities are quick to occur. For more advance feature and the white son tie up the story, ending a little anyhow, after explaining all the mysteries in place and updated this romance dripping with good feelings.
It may seem strange to find the great filmmaker Jim Sheridan behind this project. But “Dream House” – as the previous “My Left Foot”, “In the Name of the Father”, “In America” and the remake of “Brothers” of the same Director – spoke mainly of the family. That brings and that divides. A favorite theme of choice that the author of “The Boxer” is unable to properly operate both David Loucka is arbitrary. There is no psychological research in the characters that remain in two dimensions. There is solid but anonymous, preaching by an excess of romanticism and a soundtrack sometimes too. So many elements that prevent completely take in breath, have a good scare and seize the soul of these beings in the rout.
The actors do what they are able in this position that is not necessarily to their advantage. Rachel Weisz is not doing too bad, generally finding the right emotion. In an underdeveloped role, Naomi Watts assure vigorously. This is not necessarily the stoic Daniel Craig can be surprising and disappointing in a scene in the next. Who knows, Ralph Fiennes would probably have a much better job…
Both intimate sequences of “Dream House” bring certain fragility to the plot, as everything that advances the work – the suspense, the revelations expected, the contribution of fantasy – the condemnation of the commonplace, to the irrelevance. It’s so bad for the performers and the director which provides the least of his efforts made in career (not far behind “Get Rich or Die Tryin ‘”), because the subject had definite potential.
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