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Neverlost
(2010)
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Neverlost
is a Canadian thriller
where Josh (Ryan Barrett)
is miserable as can be
because he can't sleep and
his marriage to Megan
(Jennifer Polansky) is a
disaster and she's most
definitely cheating on
him. His doctor finally
prescribes him some
sleeping pills and he
finally gets some sleep
and starts to dream about
his love of his life, Kate
(Emily Alatalo), who died
tragically in a fire lit
by her father (Sam
Borstein). The dream is
incredibly vivid and he is
in a much better place,
until he is woken up Megan
only to abuse him. Now all
Josh wants to do is get
back there and he takes
more sleeping pills and
has more vivid dreams
about Kate until he runs
out of pills. Josh wants
to get back to the dream
life and starts stealing
cough medicine, then a
whole slew of sleeping
pills, disregarding his
own safety in the process
of getting back to the
dreams. While his real
life goes to shit, his
dream life is perfect,
until Kate's father turns
up in the dreams and is
extremely jealous of their
love and he wants Josh
dead at any cost. Now it's
a race against time to
save himself in both
reality and his dream
world.
Neverlost
seems like an interesting
idea, but the outcome is
just repugnant and gets
worse by the minute, so
much so that I don't know
why I bothered to keep
watching to the inevitable
ending. Josh is such an
awful character who we're
supposed to be sympathetic
towards, but he becomes so
horrible that I just
didn't care about him and
his story isn't worth
following, also not helped
by the actor who plays him
who just mopes around for
the most part. The women
characters fair just as
badly with them so
obviously good and evil,
it's just hackneyed
writing. The father rounds
out the ludicrous
caricatures, his jealousy
of his daughter given such
poor motivation that I
found it laughable. I went
in thinking this might be
an interesting little
movie, but I am genuinely
surprised at how poor
Neverlost actually is.
What a shame...
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