GamerTab That was an excellent one.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Tweekums This film, based on a book by Stephen King is centred on four friends; Jonesy, Beaver, Pete, and Henry. There is something unusual about this quartet; they have a degree of telepathy following an incident in their childhood involving a fifth boy. Now, as adults they are taking part in their annual hunting trip to Maine and things are going to get disturbing. First Jonesy saves a man he finds wandering in the forest; he claims to have become separated from his companions and is ill because he ate some suspicious berries. Meanwhile Henry and Pete crash their car to avoid a woman sitting in the middle of the forest road; they assume she must be frozen to death but it turns out she is still alive. It later emerges that both of them are infected with parasitic alien worms that are soon attacking our four protagonists. The authorities are aware of what is going on and have quarantined the area; they later plan to exterminate everybody present to ensure the aliens don't infect the wider population. If that is to be avoided the survivors from our original foursome will have to use their telepathic powers and find the fifth boy before it is too late.This film contains several good elements but somehow manages to be a bit too messy and not really scary enough. The flashback scenes to the protagonists' childhood felt like very similar to 'Stand by Me'; a superior film also based on a Stephen King Story... the only real difference being that the boys in that film didn't get telepathic powers! The monster was decent enough; I particularly liked how we are introduced to it when one is trapped in a toilet before getting out and killing one of the group. The inclusion of telepaths, aliens and dubious military units felt like an attempt to shoehorn as many ideas into the story as possible; it would have been better with less. The military weren't really needed it would have been better just having our group facing some unexplained monster in the woods than making them obvious aliens that have been known about for some time. Overall I wouldn't say this was terrible; it was clearly trying to do something good but somehow fell a little short. It is still worth checking out if you are a fan of the genre; just don't expect a classic.

Davis P 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.

tughan_a There are overrated movies and there are underrated movies.. This means : Popular opinion isn't necessarily always right. But then there are these over-underrated movies in rare cases which the ratings are extremely misleading for audience... I believe this one is one of these extreme cases. 5,5 rating for such solid movie is just outrageous and BS. I believe there are many sci-fi fans around here like me WHO really think in accordance with me in this case. How this movie is made is as its meant to be. Believe me but in the end one factor leads to this conclusion, the majority of the rating users are not necessarily within the sci-fi base or at least they don't really respect the features of this movie in this context, because this movie is not something ordinary in the end.

bkoganbing Dreamcatcher is the story of one nasty alien invasion that's spawning up in the north Maine woods where four friends Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, and Timothy Olyphant have an annual guys get together for a hunting trip. In fact these aliens have tried a few times before and there's an elite military unit headed by Morgan Freeman and Tom Sizemore that's charged with keeping these large space worms off the planet.Experience has taught Freeman not to do anything by halves. He hears a report they've landed somewhere and he eradicates everything for miles around. That includes humans and the four hunters are in his radius.But as it turns out way back when they were kids they saved a mentally retarded young man from bullies. That random act of kindness proves to be their salvation as the four are given the power of mental telepathy. And the retarded young man played by Donnie Wahlberg as a grown man also proves to be their's and the world's salvation. I guess among other things Stephen King was trying to say you never know when a random act of kindness might pay great dividends. I'm agreeing with another reviewer who says that Dreamcatcher succeeds as drama, horror and even comedy. Check out the scene where two of the guys are trying to contain a worm inside a toilet bowl.Fans of Stephen King should like this film as well as others like me.