Utterly stupid

Rating: 2/10 (29 December 2007)

Well, Cusack was good, most of the time. That ends the good news. For people who can't write, this was brilliant. Imagine, a dream world in which one never knows whether it's a dream or "reality." Such is the stuff of nightmares, particularly if you paid good money to see it. Plots, well written ones anyway, require some logic. This movie had none. A lot of special effects that were well done, but the director could have added anything and it would have been as logical as what he did add. A hodge podge of montages, with one silly thing after another. When things go creepy, there has to be some reason behind it. And when things happen, there needs to be a reason for that also. We see a lot of random things happen for no reason. So we're just supposed to sit back and take it. Ugh. True, there was no real gore and that beats movies at the other end of the scale which have nothing but. But a plot would have been nice...this endless hit in the head with a surf board, all a dream, all reality, all fantasy nonsense is for people with no real sense of good story telling. King should be ashamed to have allowed his name to be used in conjunction with this piece of tripe. Surely his short story was better written. If it wasn't, he better retire to the farm and milk cows, instead of money out of ridiculous plot lines.