A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in their sleep from a heart attack, Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in the dreams somehow and that is causing them to die in real life. He must find a way to stop the abuse of the power to enter dreams.
Most movies that try to crowd so much into an hour and a half end up looking like a shopping list, but Dreamscape works, maybe because it has a sense of humor.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
Mostly maladroit, without the kind of high gloss or confidence that might help carry its audience along.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
Film [from a screen story by David Loughery] centers on 'dreamlinking', the psychic projection of one person's consciousness into a sleeping person's subconscious, or his dreams. If that sounds far-fetched, it is.
– ,
Variety,
30 May 2007
fresh:
This is as good a piece of solid, down-the-line schlock as anything to come along since Halloween III.