The new movie “Dream Scenario” is an extreme example of being a different at-all-costs movie. If the goal was to make a massively different-never-been-done-before film, this one is a 10 out of 10. Unfortunately extremely different is very often not any good and as far as entertainment and quality this movie is only a 3 out of 10. The strange and too often incomprehensible dream sequences and scenes of murder and insanity get very boring and annoying far too quickly.
The entire idea of this story is about a college professor Paul Mathews, played by Nicolas Cage, who throughout this story, finds out that he is becoming part of the dreams of just about everybody he knows. Throughout this movie, Mathew’s dream problem becomes worse and more violent, to the point where Mathew is not allowed to be anywhere around the other people in his town because they are both terrified and hate him. Then towards the end of the movie, there is the revelation about a device that allows people to be part of other people’s dreams. However, this device is not part of the current storyline that represents about 3 quarters of this film. What is the point or even the need of a device like this? Could it be to one day, to produce a weird strange, and rather bad Nicolas Cage movie?
This film is one of those weird try to be different art movies, that the critics find a way to love and the audience mostly hates. The Rotten Tomatoes critics number is 92%, with the audience a low 69%. My rating is 50% and a big time run from this insane mess of two hours, unless you are on high on weed.
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