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by Sebastian Kluth

Dream House (2011) - After all these years, it's simply nothing special anymore - 6/10 (24/09/12)

Dream House (2011)

 

Advertised as a horror movie with the charismatic Daniel Craig, the talented Rachel Weisz and the beautiful and charming Naomi Watts, this film sounded highly promising to me but it didn't manage to pass above an average quality. The acting of Daniel Craig is quite convincing but the other two ones sadly don't get enough screen time in this short flick. Let's also add that this movie is not scary at all. What we have here is rather a mix between a predictable psychological thriller and a fluffy drama.

The movie itself is surely twisted and keeps you watching it until the end. On the other side, it also tries so hard to impress that it gets quickly predictable and redundant. Truly suspenseful or gripping scenes are therefor missing throughout the entire slow paced psychological thriller that lacks of true highlights apart of the acting and maybe the final twenty minutes.

If this film had been released twenty years ago or so, it would have hit harder but these days the story isn't all that original anymore. Just like this, I could easily mention you more than a handful of easily better and more gripping movies with quite similar so called twisted story lines: Lost Highway (1997), Fight Club (1999), The Sixth Sense (1999), Memento (2000), A Tale Of Two Sisters (2003), Identity (2003), Hide And Seek (2005), Shutter Island (2010) and so on and so forth. The movie makers should seriously invent something different than always the same stories with little variations.

I would only recommend this film to fans of Daniel Craig and those who really collect and want to watch all movies of this genre. Anybody else should head for any other example I've mentioned above and will get a better and especially more original entertainment.

 

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