Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Vomitron_G This week, I just thought it would be fun to catch up with Corey Haim, with just having seen the two "Lost Boys" films last week and all. Not that I'm a fan-boy - not by far - but I did like those two Coreys in some films back in my early teen days.So, I prepared myself for three films starring him. Unfortunately, I picked "Dream Machine" as a first (never seen it before), and it was so godawfully horrible, I just decided to lock Corey back in my closet and let him sober up again first, before I pop in something else of his. But I managed to struggle my way through this film first. I had the impression it desperately wanted to play in the same league as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" (1986) but got caught up in its own delusions. Practically the whole film it wants to be a comedy and near the end it hopelessly tries to be a thriller. The only good thing about "Dream Machine" is the premise: A dead body in the trunk of a Porsche. All the rest fails so badly, it's embarrassing. Even the most for Haim. I can dig him being his young, enthusiastic self, but at least when he comes with some form of directorial guidelines. This clearly wasn't the case in "Dream Machine". So, we have a perfect car, yes, that black Porsche. Haim's perfect girlfriend? Just a blonde chick who hardly has any lines in the film. The perfect murder... almost? Some dude that falls flat on his ass as the villain of the film, trying the whole movie to steal the body back out of the trunk, never really succeeds, and then at the end of the film thinks he's Michael Myers (minus the white William Shatner mask) and mistakes Corey Haim for Jamie Lee Curtis. Don't think they could have made this flick any lamer if they tried. A stupid, unfunny film with a story that leads to nowhere directed by a director that doesn't know how to direct his cast. Great accomplishment!One last question for Mr. Haim: Who's idea was it to have you smile directly into the camera in that last shot of the movie? Yours or the director's? So not done.

jmd-14 I'm a big Porsche fan, and the car was the best star in this film.Haim, the now dried up drug abusing child star of the 80's is bland as per usual, and commenting on back up from minor characters/actors would be pointless; needless to say they were all very average. It's a cool movie as a trip down memory lane into the 80's - with some weird clothes, some good shots of the Colorado backdrop and a very harmless albeit mind numbing plot.All in all, please don't waste your time watching this unless you love 80's movies, Corey Haim, or like myself, love old school Porsches (this one in particular looks great) because life's too short to watch crappy movies.

mattymatt4ever Once again, I was browsing through the discount video bin and picked up this movie for $4.88. Fifty-percent of the time the movies I find in the bin are pure crap (I mean horrible beyond belief) but half the time they turn out to be surprisingly good. This movie is much better than I expected. I found it very engaging, though it was obviously made by an amateur. The direction is nothing special, but the story is intriguing with some good thrills. I expected it to be more of a comedy, but I wasn't too disappointed. For a thriller, this movie is surprisingly good-natured. There's no bloody violence, no profanity, no nudity, no sex. Usually, these movies require all four of those elements. The PG rating is well-deserved--not like "Sixteen Candles" where the "f" word is used twice and there's a brief gratuitous nude scene. I just wish the romance between Corey Haim and his love interest could've been developed more. The film does tend to be plot-heavy, and the potentially good subplots are pushed off to the side. Instead of developing a chemistry between the two of them, we end up watching a careless three-minute montage of them on their romantic endeavors. They end up kissing at the end, but there's so little chemistry that it seems forced."The Dream Machine" is no gem, but it's good, clean entertainment. It's quite forgettable--especially with a cast of unknowns, except for Haim--but it's also much better than you'd expect. My score: 7 (out of 10)

dany boy Perfect car. Perfect girl. Perfect murder ... Almost! Wow! An intruging plot and terrific storyline. The movie's called "Dream Machine" and it stars a fantastic young teen star named Corey Haim. The movie's about a college freshman named Barry Davis (Haim). His parents go away on a trip and leave him in charge of their piano tuning business. Cut to a hotel room where a rich man named Jack Chamberlain (Jeremy Slate) is getting killed by a fumbling accidental murderer named Lance Harper (Randall England). Lance kills him and then hides him in the trunk of Jack's turbo charged Porsche.Previous to the killing, Margo Chamberlain (Susan Seaforth Hayes), Jack's wife, finds out he's been cheating on her and that he is at the hotel with another woman. So she was going to go down to the hotel room to confront him about it. But he wasn't there! (He was already dead). And then she sees the Porsche and decides to drive it home, not knowing there was Jack's dead body in the trunk!The next day, Margo is very mad about Jack's cheating, and to make matters worse, Jack didn't come home that night. Barry then came over to tune her piano. After he was done tuning, she saw Barry in awe over the new, 1 week old Porsche. She had just bought it for Jack as a birthday present! To get him back for cheating on her, she decided to give the Porsche to Barry! That's how he recieved the Dream Machine. (With a corpse in the trunk).Him and his friend Meese (Evan Richards) drove around Colorado looking for chicks with it! Anyway, Lance found out that Barry had the car and would do anything to get it back from him! To make matters worse, the girl he loved, Robin (Brittney Lewis) hated his guts and the head fraternity man (Tracy Fraim) was after him playing weird pranks on him. Barry started to get freaked out because Margo turned up dead (killed by Lance) and there was a weird guy always chasing after him (also Lance).Everything results to a pulse-pounding showdown. "Dream Machine" is a really great movie filled with thrills, chills and amazing action-suspense! Corey Haim is absolutely excellent! Even better than his performance in the highly acclaimed "License To Drive". His performance of Barry is right on. Newcomer Brittney Lewis is also very good and Evan Richards provides good support. The writer, Eric Hendershot, is a genius and should be involved in Hollywood big budget movies! The director, Lyman Dayton, is also very extraordinary. But once again Corey Haim steals the show! ***** (five stars), one of the best movies of the century! I highly recommend it for anybody in the world or a Haim fan.