Dream Warrior

Highlights: 1. Movie/TV vets like Sherilyn Fenn and Lance Henrickson deliver as usual. 2. Film newcomer Daniel Goddard is not only an incredibly natural dramatic actor (with lots of range potential), but he also encompasses physical strength and grace of movement. Goddard is a handsome hero, but not so good-looking as to blindside your ability to follow his dialog. I have to admit to being rather smitten with Goddard at this point in his career and look forward to his future projects with great enthusiasm. 3. The secondary cast is also worth mentioning. Although I have never seen any of them before they were also very natural actors. By natural I mean as a complete cast, neither of them seemed to stick out as being amateurs.

Lowlights: 1. Gratuitous female T & A shots (and not enough male ones-LOL) 2. In the opening "lets explain how the apocalypse happened" scene, graphics and sound mixing are really bad. Really bad. But post-production budgetary restraints may be to blame for this. 3. Goddard and Isaac Hayes (It's Salisbury Steak day children!-South Park) are captured by a Gothic tribe. While I understand this was the vehicle for bringing Rage and the Dream Warrior together to save the infant 'chosen one', not to mention an extremely sexy sleeper headlock executed by Goddard on a Gothic fighter, it was just kinda cheesy. 4. The infant in more than a few scenes was obviously a doll. In particular, the scene in which Rage is saving the infant and the infants mother by leading them down a ladder to a sun-level, Goddard (and this is my only criticism to this man) does not seem aware of the fact that he is holding an infant. Not that I'm implying they should have used a real infant but at least had Goddard hold something a little more precious than a doll in order to pull the right actions out of him.

Neutral: 1. The script must have been quite convincing in order to attract the actors involved but does loose its momentum and clarity a few times as a film.

Overall, the cast/crew does an incredible job. By the end of the movie everything seems wrapped up and nicely packed with the exception of Goddard's character Rage who is last scene walking back to the place of contention so "the people" can know the truth about Parish's (Henriksen) fanatical pursuit for perfection.

While this isn't the worst movie I've seen, it is one of the few where I gave up on it before finishing it. The producer of this thing must have had pictures of Lance Henriksen and Isaac Hayes in bed together to rope them into this.

This is basically X-men set in post-apocalypse with bikers (all half-dozen of them) shot on a budget and with the skill of a bunch of fifth-graders. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but the story is rambling and incoherent with oddball elements like a surprise tribe of Juggalos that nobody knows about living just around the corner.

The main problem, though, is that the story is very slow and boring. Not even the Juggalos and the half-naked girls can save it. If you are are fan of the genre, there is any number movies, most of them made in the 80's, that are much better, even in their awfulness.

The reason this gets two stars is that I actually know worse films.

This movie was a big waste of time. The knight on the front cover of the DVD never appeared in the movie at all. I got the distinct feeling that the movie was filmed with a home video camera ... or perhaps the person who said cellphone camera was not too far wrong.

It's time for bed, but I almost have to watch another movie, just to flush this one out of my mind.

I would say that this movie borrowed heavily from Escape from New York and Escape from L.A. I expect that it will not be too long before we see it available on the dollar movie rack at our local grocery stores.

One positive note. This movie gives me new hope. When I was 13, I got a movie camera for my birthday, and a friend and I shot some take-offs on Indiana Jones. Seeing this movie in Blockbuster gives me hope that my movie might some day make it there, too. I pity the poor sap that rents it, though.

This is the worst movie I have ever seen in my whole life. So the plot goes like this: In an apocalyptic future, a man with extra-human powers goes on the run. As you might have noticed, I copied this from the internet movie database because I actually had to read the plot outline on this site to understand what I had just seen. None of it made sense, the actors were terrible and the story was awful. If you like bad movies see dream warrior. The movie was so cruddy that my mind automatically erased it from memory. I actually think that the 1996 movie Space Truckers was better with the square pigs and anti-gravity beer. What a waste of time. If I could put a 0/10 I would. This movie was a mega mammoth waste of time.

In a cast of pros, Lance Henriksen and Richard Norton as villain and henchman respectively portray a complex chemistry between their characters that elevates "Dream Warrior" aka "Man Called Rage" above standard action movie fare. The chemistry between these two excellent actors is also obvious, and their scenes together give this movie its best moments of tension and drama. An opening stunt featuring Norton, also the film's stunt coordinator, sets the swift pace for the science fiction epic which will please the "Beastmaster" fans of Daniel Goddard, playing the hero. It's always a thrill to watch actors who excel at their craft, especially when they work together. Norton and Henriksen more than qualify!