I'll recommend "MindTrap" instead

Rating: 4/10 (10 February 2002)

(Minor?) SPOILER contained. I watched this damn movie tonight and although I initially liked it (perhaps I felt intimidated by the? wisdom in it) the more I think about it now the more I hate it! Maybe it caught me in a not-absolutely-perfect mood or it may just be that I prefer playing "MindTrap" than watching movies if I want to solve riddles. The direction is obviously very good from a technical standpoint and it really catches your attention so you don't feel sleepy besides the long duration of the film. Yet, unlike "Pulp Fiction" were all the separate stories tie up together at the end in a masterly way, this ?thing just leaves you with the mouth open wondering what the hell happened at the end. Although I have spent some time thinking about it and have come up with a broad idea of the general story I still have many gaps left and I'm not even sure if my guesses are correct. I'm guessing that the? grand master has put some kind of Deux-ex-machina explanation in his script to make this all tie together (maybe some of the facts/minor stories are "explained" by the fact that they were (?) Diane's hallucinations) and if that is the case it is certainly a sign of a poor script in my view.
This is the first film I've ever seen (and I've seen many) that I can clearly say I didn't understand and I don't even care to any more. This including some of David Lynch's earlier work (Dune, Twin Peaks) which I greatly liked. So, you can blame it all on my big hurt ego if you want Mr. Lynch but I'll send this one straight to movie hell! Rate? Won't even care to!