Blasting incomprehensibility

Rating: 2/10 (5 January 2002)

Two-thirds of "Mullholland Dr." is very good, then it decides to get weird for weird's sake-characters switch identities, time shifts, questions are never answered, and, in the final straw that broke my suspension of disbelief, two hyena-laughing senior citizens chase one of the main characters around a room for no apparent reason. This film is, pure and simple, intentionally incomprehensible, and it seems many are being blinded by that. Incomprehensibility does not equal greatness, it equals confusion. All that having been said, I would like to call special attention to the very fine jobs done by the two lead actresses, Naomi Watts and Laura Harring. Both of these women deserve future attention, especially Watts. But it's not a film for anyone who likes their questions answered. See it only if you want to have your mind messed with, badly.