RBR: Dream House

This is another example of talented actors somehow getting bamboozled into staring in terrible, cheesy thrillers. Daniel Craig should know better after the disasterous The Invasion, but I guess he got desperate when Bond went on hiatus. And I also doubt that he regrets this film too much since he got married to his costar (Rachel Weisz) after working with her on the film. If you had seen the trailers for this film about a family man who comes to realize he's just moved his family into a new house where a family was previously murdered, then you may have thought that the film's twist was revealed. In the preview, it appears as if Craig's character was responsible for the murders and has since psychologically blocked the incident from his mind. On the plus side, there's more to the story than what the trailers reveal. On the negative side, the twists that do follow in the film are increasingly stupid and cause the film to crash and burn. Very little makes sense here and the actors aren't even given enough to try and salvage this thing. Both Weisz and Naomi Watts, playing a neighbor with some insight on what actually happened, are not given enough development. Instead, we get scene after scene of misdirection until the underwhelming truth gets revealed. The actors here deserve better. But the only way we can prevent them from making these duds if we avoid seeing them. This is certainly one you can avoid. Rating: * 1/2