This film is without a doubt, the worst I have ever seen.

Rating: 1/10 (30 November 2002)

Everyone seems to love 'Mulholland Dr.' for reasons that I will apparently never understand. I had been wanting to see this movie for a while and I finally did. Not only did I lose $3.50 to Hollywood Video, but I think that I actually lost brain cells in the viewing of this entirely overrated garbage that should have been left on the cutting room floor.

First off, how this trash made it onto the Top 250 list (it's currently 128) is beyond me. I've read many critics' reviews just because I wanted to see if there was anyone else in the world that agreed with me by saying that 'Mulholland Dr.' should never have been made. Well, I didn't have too much luck.
What exactly was David Lynch on when he was sitting in the director's chair? Now this is the first film by Lynch that I have ever seen, so naturally a couple of people might think that it is unfair to judge him by going off of only one movie. I don't care what anybody says, he's a terrible director and you couldn't pay me (well, I suppose if the price was right...) to view any of his other films.
I'll be honest, I thought that the film was going to be really good due to the first ten minutes alone. It started off slow but I figured that it would pick up and be non-stop action from then on out. Wrong. It dragged on and on and I continued to check the clock about every two minutes just to make sure that I was still awake. I was on the verge of slipping into a deep sleep many of times. I was actually still interested in 'Mulholland Dr.' up to the point where Betty finds Rita in her aunt's apartment. It was all downhill from there.
The acting was surprisingly good. Too bad it was wasted on such an awful project. Naomi Watts is fairly good to watch. She was a bit annoying at times, but I would see her again in one of her other films. Laura Elena Harring was so bad. It seems unreasonable to come down on her when I rave about Watts' performance, but it's not my fault that she was boring to watch. Justin Theroux was entertaining. His character was a mess, but I still enjoyed him. The cast was good, could have been better, alright, it was average.
'Mulholland Dr.' is freaky. It is down right weird. We all know that. The thing is, is that there are entirely too many twists and turns. Lynch doesn't know when to stop. It looks as if he wanted the entire film to be set as a complete 'illusion' instead of just random parts here and there. Well, why didn't he? He got me so confused that I gave up and didn't care less if I even saw the last minutes of it. I did, though. The film is a wild ride of turns and twists of events that turn out to be nothing more than disappointments.
The script itself is terrible. The majority of the writing was silly and stupid, yet some of it was actually bearable. It definitely needed work on. Well, would you look at that. Lynch, as it just so happened, was also the writer of the film. Surprise, surprise.
So, this movie managed to weasle a '1' out of me. I'd have given it a -10 if I felt it would have made a difference. But since there isn't a '0' or anything less than that, a '1' is what it gets.
I've seen some pretty terrible films throughout the years, but 'Mulholland Dr.' definitely takes the prize home. This dreadfully long movie drags on and on and manages to accomplish absolutely nothing. The cast is okay, though it would have gone over better with a different set of actors. The writing is horrible. There are too many twists and turns set at every corner in order for anything really interesting to develope. David Lynch is a joke and should be ashamed of himself for creating such an awful picture. The ending and basically the entire 145 minutes is confusing. 'Mulholland Dr.' is the worst film that I have ever seen.
Avoid this one at all costs!