Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're overtaken by a vicious blizzard that harbors an ominous presence. Challenged to stop an alien force, the friends must first prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians by a military vigilante ... and then overcome a threat to the bond that unites the four of them.
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Not the blizzard of bulls#%^ we expected. Great twist! Love Duds ;-)
Bizarre!! A man poops out an alien. Yep, you read that correctly. That is not the end of the madness. The dialogue is so strange and so is the direction. It is just a weird film. It is enjoyable though and it looked and sounded really nice. It is even a bit scary in some places. It reminded me of Slither (2006) but less funny and more odd. Strangeness is afoot.
This is a movie adaptation of the novel Dreamcatcher written by Stephen King. It stars Thomas Jane, Damian Lewis, Jason Lee, Timothy Olyphant, and Morgan Freeman. It tells the story of childhood friends who go on a trip out into the snowy woods and come across a horrifying discovery. This film is not at all what I was expecting. I was expecting a weird but very interesting film about old childhood friends discovering this intriguing thing in the woods, what I got was something different than that. I got a film that really was not all that interesting. It was a movie with long stretches of very boring and uninteresting happenings. The aliens in the film that they come across are cardboard cut outs recycled from previous movies, they could've made them cool and mysterious, maybe reveal something we've never seen before, but no they decided to waste that opportunity. That truthfully is how I feel about this entire film, a big fat wasted opportunity. It could've been a thought provoking mysterious film, but instead it turned out to be uninteresting and disappointing. The acting is off and on, Freeman was good but other members of the cast were a little spotty, sometimes good and other times kinda laughable. 3/10 for Dreamcatcher. Just not worth your time.
I would never have thought I'd give any film with Morgan Freeman in it a bad review.It was almost as if all the actors were directed to act badly. Even a poor script can be saved by great actors but not in this case. Pommy accent to indicate the alien speaking? What the freaking hell?It felt like a 90's tele-movie. Those flashback scenes with the vomit inducing 'nice' virtuous, telepathic young boys: straight out of a Disney film. No kid ever did stuff like that, especially when they are in a group.And what the hell was the Duddits transformation about?Good special FX and CGI.
