Review of Dreamland

The period setting and attention to detail was very good. You could see the dustbowl dust coating their skin. Pretty cinematography and powerful acting performances. But overall, I wanted it to be better than it was, and the biggest problem was the way the story was told. There was so much narration from the sister character front-loaded that I wondered if the original cut ran too long and after the fact, the narration was added in order to cut scenes out. But the problem is that those scenes that were summarized in narration were imperative to making me care about the characters. I didn't feel truly invested into anyone until about 2/3 of the way through the movie, and even then, it wasn't as much as it should have been. And yet, it still felt overly slow and long.

This had the potential to be GREAT, but in the end, it was still pretty good. A drama version of a Bonnie & Clyde story with a bit of suspense and action.