Just say "NO"

Rating: 2/10 (8 May 2002)

Kids, stay off cheap crack, or you may end doing something like "Mulholland Dr". The closest analogy to this film is a party drunk, who takes an eternity to say something he thinks is so smart and funny but no one can understand.

There are a few good scenes, a funny one where a hit man tries to make a murder seem like suicide and ends shooting everyone, including the vacuum cleaner. There's a couple of lesbian love scenes, with clear and explicit nudity, for those who think Hollywood movies have become too prudish lately. However, two and a half hours is too long to wait for so little. That used to be called "glacially slow", but, in this greenhouse effect age, one feels the glaciers will melt before this film ends.

Unfortunately, there are critics who enjoy praising films that make no sense, perhaps because they feel superior when they claim to understand it, or, worse, critics who think that making no sense is a positive contribution to entertainment. If I had known it was that kind of people who were saying such good things about "Mulholland Dr", I wouldn't have thrown away my hard earned money on this crap.

I'm not saying it's bad to be original, all I'm saying is that there are infinite ways of being original, most of them bad. It's very easy to do things at random. The hard part is linking the threads at the end, so it all makes sense. Doing a really good non sense film is extremely hard, I think Fellini did it a few times, or Buñuel, perhaps. Here, David Lynch certainly fell far short of the mark.