Dream Warrior

I basically watch anything with Lance Henriksen in it; even if the movie is bad he's always gives a high-grade performance. This movie had a really cool idea with a very poor execution. If it only had a decent script backing it up, any kind of budget, a director with some kind vision, or even half-way capable actors (Henriksen excluded of course) it would have been much more enjoyable than what we have here. It's like a low-rate X-Men with a post-apocalyptic backdrop. A everything settles man named Parish (Lance Henriksen) becomes the leader (really more like a king) of the new world. Under his rule anything he deems unholy is banned, the main atrocity being people with supernatural, or mutant, powers. Then a mutant named Rage (horribly played by Daniel Goddard) decides to stand up to Parish and bring his reign crumbling down. Too bad a cool concept, even if it's not that original, doesn't make a good movie.

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.

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.

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.

This is one of the worst movies i have ever watched. I would rather remove my eyes with a spoon then even think of watching this garbage again. The guy on the cover was not even in the movie!!!!! Was that honestly the director's cut.... I mean come on i could have made a better movie with the camera on my cell phone.I would have to say that the budget for this movie must have been $20 and a loaf of bread to feed the way over priced actors and actresses, who were horrible i must add..... but i will have to say that it is better than watching open water, or Dracula 3000 which isn't very hard to beat... whoever made this movie should never be allowed to produce or direct a movie like this!