Unoriginal David Lynch Orgy

Rating: 1/10 (26 December 2001)

This film is a load of bollocks. My partner and I are regular film-goers and we saw Mulholland Drive following the slew of awards and critical acclaim this film has received. After David Lynch's The Straight Story, I was particularly looking forward to viewing this film but I was very disappointed. If nothing else, this is a self-indulgent orgy. Like Lynch's Blue Velvet, the film has a promising start but three-quarters of the way through, it takes a bizarre turn and we are taken onto David Lynch's too-often-travelled-road. The "dramatics" included are too familiar: the colour blue, the dark mysterious woman, the sense of panic, the patriarchal society's view of lesbianism (this part is just an insult and completely unnecessary). I have no idea why people are raving about this uneven film with a flimsy plot-line. Although the cinematography and some of the acting (particularly the leading performance by Naomi Watts - it is inaccurate that she is being cited as a supporting actress) are quite good, there is little to stimulate and there is little to ponder after seeing this film. There are some lesser-known filmmakers who could do better dream sequences.