Goes from Bad to Great

Rating: 9/10 (11 January 2002)

Funny, I leaned over to my date about halfway through the film and whispered, "Are you hating this as much as I am?"
She was.
But then, of course, everything changes and twists and turns and who knows what all happens or even has happened.
And I ended up really liking this movie. Go figure.
To me it was the exact opposite of Vanilla Sky, which I liked for the first half and then loathed the exposition. Mulholland Drive is similar in that you don't know what's real and what's not, but in the end you pretty much maybe still don't know but in any case don't necessarily care.
And, anyway and anyhow, that Naomi Watts is an absolute shining star, by turns perky & lovely and then damaged and dangerous.
Unforgettable, although sadly my date never did warm up to it.
ejb