Review of In Dreams

I was excited to go back and watch this movie that I somehow missed a decade or so ago. I've always enjoyed Downey's work, and after recentley reaquainting myself with Annette Benning in The Kids are All Right, I figured this to be a sure thing. Holy sh*t was I wrong. How could both of these talented actors make such a horrible mistake? What could have possibly attracted them to this joke of a script? Every minute of this ridiculous film is a tired, brutally mundane excersice in insulting its audience. Non-sensical story-lines and gaping plot-holes abound, while the director attempts to distract us from the films incompetence with a bit of cliche^d , half-assed imagry, and over-wraught, psycho-shmycho hysterics. The director trips over himself non-stop, never achieving the desired effect. The scenes that are supposed to be touching and emotional are uncomfortably awkward and laughable. Edgy is dull, creepy is lucdicrous, tense is tedious, and emotionally gripping is unconscious eye-rolling. Bad, bad, bad.