From time to time I check up on old friends who went off to be actor/actresses back from the home town. One such friend was Jackie Kreisler and Jackie briefly entered our lives back in Leesburg during my High School Career. Jackie was a very excited, and easy going person who would always be someone fun to hang out with. During the time that I knew Jackie she did many things including going through Chrysalis with Jeni. Towards the end of my tenure at Leesburg High School Jackie moved to California to take a stab at acting. Although we were sad to see her go, we wished her the best and knew should would make something of her self.
Well it turns out after a few years of hard work this contortionist from Central Florida has starred in a movie called Dreamland. I had checked up on Jackie’s IMDB page over the last few years and noted she had a few projects she worked on but none seemed to ever get released. Well Dreamland did, and as soon as I noticed I added it to the top of my Netflix queue.
I am no movie critic but here is my two cents…
First, it is a thriller, and as such you are left out of the loop on a lot of the details in order to create a sense of suspense and danger. Some movies do this very well, while others like Dreamland seem to leave too much unexplained. Even at the very end I was not entirely sure what happened. I got the connections, but the motivation never made sense to me. That aside what can you say bad about a writer/directory who has done such a wonderful job portraying everyone’s favorite creepy guy..The Creeper…in Jeepers Creepers. That is correct Johnathon Breckthe person who plays The Creeper was the writer/director of Dreamland.
All things equal I understand why Dreamland wasn’t a major blockbuster, but I have seen much worse movies make it Orlando, that probably should have never been filmed. I believe my biggest problem with the movie was that it seemed to be written as a movie first, taking into account the shots that needed to be taken, before the story was written. What I mean by that is, the individual scenes were put together quite well, but as a whole the movie seemed to flow very poorly and the ending was not tied up enough.
Enough about the movie, what about Jackie? I think Jackie did a very good job with the story she was given. She portrayed a range of emotions, used a little bit of vulgar language, showed a little skin, and took up smoking. From what I remember about Jackie most of the things she was in this movie, were not what Jackie is in real life, so I give her a thumbs up for commiting to the character. The one thing Jeni and I would suggest to Jackie the next time you get a thriller/physco role would be to stop messing with your hair so much. Now if Mr. Creepers told you to do this we apologize but, it seemed a little obsessive.
Anyways, Jackie if you do any vanity searches on Google and this post happens to come up. Daniel and Jeni (Whitman) Roop say hi and wish you the best of luck, and were so excited to see you in a movie we could get on netflix. Oh and Good Luck as Pretzel Girl in Bratz!
