A Wonderful Mess By Lynch

Rating: Null/10 (27 October 2001)

I enjoy Lynch's work very much (Blue Velvet and the brilliant Elephant Man are my favorites)and in Mullholland Drive, I was blown away when some magical scenes just went on and on and they worked and then BLAM - the pacing would be killed by pretentious camerawork (this is a complaint I have with Mr. Lynch sometimes). But he lays out a hypnotic puzzle and as I said, when it works, it really works. I had never seen Naomi Watts before and I was incredibly impressed with her multi-layered performance; from playing the innocent girl arriving in Hollywood to the strung-out jealous walking time bomb, she was incredible. I was able to see this at a screening, so maybe if I had shelled out nine bucks or so, I might have been a bit more frustrated with the film at times, but here I just sat back and let Lynch take me for a ride and aside from some questionable left turns, I loved it!!!