It had the potential to be an interesting movie, but ar present is a collection of cliches. Including the fact that the two adolescents escape through a forest at peak autumn leaves change. They of course magically can orient themselves among trees and more trees and reach their destination. If you like to watch visual recipes, this is a good choice.

Dont be put off by the low audience score, this is a cracking film with plenty to say. Taut and fast paced with lots of menace. Great turns by all the cast

Great scenery. Cast too especially Paxton

Not sure why the audience score is 59%, it was much better than that. Good plot, good character development, good writing, good acting.

super suspenseful movie, loved the performances too, the young actors were phenomenal

Captivating....very intense. Well acted.

A talented cast elevates this all-too-familiar plot into a suspenseful thriller that is worth watching.

Mean dreams is an indie film thats definitely worth watching. The performances are great all around and sad to see Bill Paxton in one of his last roles. The romance is believable though the characters do make some odd and questionable decisions in the film. It won’t blow you away but Mean Dreams is worth watching and features another good performance from Bill Paxton.

Mean dreams is an indie film thats definitely worth watching. The performances are great all around and sad to see Bill Paxton in one of his last roles. The romance is believable though the characters do make some odd and questionable decisions in the film. It won’t blow you away but Mean Dreams is worth watching and features another good performance from Bill Paxton.

The script features too many perplexing character decisions to be good, but it's a well made movie that moves briskly enough to keep it fun.

Wow, such a low score for such a great movie. Had me on the edge of my seat for most of it.

Mean Dreams not only has a great cast as also counts with a thrilling and breathless plot, a sharp story and a unnerving soundtrack. Mean Dreams is probably one of the best movies of 2017. It mixes unpredictability with wit and with a powerful realistic story, having the capatity to teletransport the spectator to the action scenes making him living them, that was what I was feeling while watching it.

People can be divided into two neat categories: a) evil people, people of action, who take what they want; and b) good people, people who mind their own business, keep their heads down and go about their business. Is it possible to break that mould, asks Mean Dreams, and be both a man of action, and virtuous? Marvelously acted by Paxton, & two young 'uns, Mean Dreams is an exploration well worth your time.

Sometimes you just want to see a story about what grandpa called in the last century "no-count low-lifes," similar to today's 21st century rural Red Staters. After all, that's how JLaw arrived on the Big Time screen. This time its Josh Wiggins, what Hillary Swank's son would've looked & been like had she had one. The flick is slow, picking-up now & again. But it holds interest. The problem is that by the end there are way too many loose ends and - in the current "cool" (not) of leaving things hanging - they stay that way. This flick keeps gen'ing more questions than it can answer. Had the pace been picked-up a bit, there might've been time to tie a few; but no ... Still, it's good to catch a rural "no-count low-life" movie where, and this is a plus, one of those no-counts is a bad cop who ... no, that'd be a spoiler. There's another a loose end that remains untied. What the heck DID happen when you hear those gun shots from under the tarp? We'll never know.

An opportunity came their way for an unplanned venture. As far I know, there's a thin difference between Canadian films and the US. Just like the Hong Kong's Cantonese and the Chinese Mandarin films are. They exchange starts and crews, but most of the Canadian film I've seen were French language. Those English films are not as popular as the Hollywood's on the world stage. Lots of good films go unnoticed like the recent film 'The Confirmation' I reviewed a few months ago. If this same film were made in Hollywood, would have been considered an average. But for the Canadian standards, I mean they usually won't make the big budget fancy films, hence it is so much better. This is a coming-of-age thriller drama. Revolves around two teenagers as they run away with a bag full of cash from their parents. It all begins with a girl, who arrive in a small town with her father. Soon she makes a friend with her neighbour boy. His parents are neglect kind when it comes to him, and her father is an alcoholic, abuser, as well as a dirty cop. One day her father comes standing between them, that's the opportunity they were looking for to run away, since being with their parents has not been any good. But her father is not in the mood to let them go as his money was involved. So the running and chasing game begins. You might say, you have seen this story in all the similar themed films, no matter its Hollywood, European or the Korean. That's what I thought too, but still it is a very good film. I'm not expecting it to impress you as well. If it does, then that's great. But it all depends on your taste in films, quantity of films you watch regularly and most importantly your expectation from it. It was like another 'Cop Car', but there's no car involved in the core of the plot. It's all about the money and the mad-cop father. It looked kind of western style, or the tale that very much suitable for the humid California settings. ?It's no ocean, but it's ours.? In this, it was always cloudy, wet and chilling moisture atmosphere where all the chase takes place. The great locations that avoids to get in any major town/city. Other than 3-4 main cast, there's no one else. Because most of the scenes are between the boy and the girl and sometimes her cop father in isolated places. There's a dog in the film, but not focused enough to classify it as a dog film from one of the angles. The pace of the narration was so fast with not too long or very short overall runtime. It had many twists and turns, yet definitely you would predict most of them. Nice performances, by both the youngsters. As usual Bill Paxton nailed it in his negative role. It was one of his final films before his death early this year. It was a small appearance, but a prominent role that I surely would remember it for him. I was not anticipating anything extraordinary. But when I learnt about its synopsis, I thought I understood everything about the story there itself. Though watching it in the film was a different experience and one of the reason was, it is a different cast and atmospheric setting. I felt they should have improvised in some of the parts, but at the end I'm satisfied being what it is. Especially in the initial stage, the intro was so simple and skips fast to the next stage. I did not fully understand any of the characters about their earlier life events to the point where this story commenced. But going forward, I started to have an idea, seeing how the tale has progressed. That really helped to come to the point directly. There are no smart scenes like the film characters to take measures to counter the threats in a fancy way. That's done mainly to impress the viewers. This screenplay tried to be realistic as much as possible, but there's a couple of scenes that could only work in cinematic. I think that's sometimes necessary for a film. After all it is a film and made for entertainment purpose, not a documentary feature. But overall film was much better with enough tense moments and interesting developments. Lots of good films released in the last 12 months and this is not one of them, but considering it is from Canada, surely it is. Because I've already given the reason for that in the very first paragraph. So thumbs up for it from my side. 7/10

Good movie start to finish. Excellent acting.

Bill Paxton elevates this movie past just okay to good. It falls apart a little at the end but not too much to hurt the overall tension that is built up beforehand.

It's sometimes illogical, and sometimes has iffy dialogue, and sometimes feels too much like someone trying to shoot like Terence Malick, but... I still liked it. The performances were compelling, Paxton is great with what could've been a one-note character, and it was emotionally engaging.

Wow, watching this was like watching grass grow: Even though the acting is outstanding and it has the right story, it is so slow-paced and for the better part of it unexciting that I found myself in constant struggle over my patience. Paxton was someone who kept being interesting throughout the whole movie but this wasn't enough, and overall I found myself disappointed.

Mean Dreams: In his final starring film role, the late Bill Paxton plays a corrupt rural cop and abusive father, whose ill-gotten drug money ends up in the hands of the teenage farm boy next door, who, along with the cash, seizes the opportunity to run off with Paxton's daughter and start a new life. While the art house film doesn't forge any new ground, it's a well done, realistic portrait of rural desolation and life on the run and features solid acting by its promising young leads Josh Wiggins (Max) and Sophie Nélisse (The Book Thief). It's also a sad reminder of the talent the acting world has lost with Paxton's sudden death in 2017. B