Very old tired theme, trying to be resurrected using not a fractured plot but a mutilated one.

Rating: 3/10 (19 January 2003)

Same old theme; small town country girl with high hopes comes to
Hollywood and ends up in the "gutter". Lynch is so overrated; he
should have stuck to popular TV. This movie is so obviously
contrived and techniques plagiarised very badly. The whole story
is obvious and predictable from the start and completely unsubtle;
all the characters are cliches. There is not one single ounce of wit
or humour in the film. He needs two very attractive actresses to
prop it up. He uses an unsurprising but unnecessary erotic scene.
The violence is staged. You could leave about two thirds of the film
on the cutting room floor; it is so laborious. There is no sense of
mood in the film. No sense of LA...it could have been set in the
Mongolian film capital.Links in the film are either just put in there
or non-existent; if he is trying to portray Hollywood as all of the
above well I guess he succeeded, including its worst director. I
saw this film a couple of hours ago before lunch, and my
sandwich was more memorable than the film. The acting was ok
but I'm sure the actors were as clueless as the director about what
was going on; Lynch is a fake. Just compare the film to any Coen
Bros' film, and I think you will get my point.