Two things going for this movie

Rating: 5/10 (29 December 2013)

There are 2 great things going for this movie: Laura Harring's sexy, exquisite curvaceous body, magnificently revealed in the movie; and Rebekah Del Rio's beautiful enchanting performance of Llorando (Roy Orbison's "Crying").
Those are 2 perfect moments in a film that last nearly 2 and a half hours. And that, unfortunately, is not enough to compensate for the slow moving, confused (probably purposefully confusing) plot.
Granted, one should expect, going in to a David Lynch film, a surreal and confusing experience. This is the director's trademark style, and I have found myself reveling in it in the past.
But here, it seems purposefully constructed to confuse, and once the true meaning IS revealed, it does not hold as a cohesive story, especially when looking back at the entire length of the this overly long film.
For my taste, there are too many distracting characters and throwaway scenes designed just to confuse, and in the end, they do not amount to anything: the cowboy. the large hit-man in the director's home. etc. I can appreciate the symbolism and the surreal atmosphere they add to the movie. But in the end, the amount of time the movie spends on these scenes is disproportionate with the fact that they're only there for atmosphere.
Still, the 2 good things I mentioned are well-worth the watch for some people, myself included.