Pretty garbage...

Rating: 1/10 (23 August 2002)

A bum with a magic box... Lynch deserves to get sued by Clive Barker for copyright infringement. Oh wait, I guess you filmic types have never seen _Hellraiser_. What a shame! I'm sure a deluded film student at a high-priced university somewhere has written an inscrutable term paper on Lynch's compression of the viewer's experiential topology vis-a-vis the liminal passages of subcontexual plot as the temporal flow of the film wends its circuitous way into and out of a mystical cube guarded by a filthy vagrant with a predilection for burning piles of refuse --- completely unaware, of course, that the whole conceit was shamelessly lifted from another, better, movie. Watching this film wasted two-and-a-half hours of my existence; if you haven't seen _Mulholland Dr._ yet and are considering doing so, I suggest you not even bother. This is the second or third Lynch film I've suffered through, and it's beyond me how he's managed to dupe so many people into thinking he's some sort of cinematic genius.