nonsensical, pretentious rambling non-story.

Rating: 3/10 (24 July 2017)

Well, there's a couple of hours wasted. I never learn my lesson, I keep expecting David Lynch to make understandable crime/thrillers, but he always does the same thing - he makes a good start with an intriguing premise but then can't resist loading it up with dreams, altered reality and out-and-out barminess. We decided to watch this after seeing a TV review of it, and the 'strange blue key' had us wondering if it might be worth a watch. And it was, up to about half way through when Lynch started messing it all about. And who the heck was 'The Cowboy' and what was he there for, what purpose did he serve? Nah, Lynch just makes it up as he goes along, safe in the knowledge that his fans will lap it up and pretend to get it. We gave up even trying to follow it in the second hour. We were also thinking about 'Lost Highway', but reading the resume of that film it seems to suffer from the same thing. Never again, I'll give Lynch a wide berth from now on. I gave it three points because of the nice photography.