More Crap for people who Love Crap...

Rating: 1/10 (18 October 2002)

This is just more crap for people who love crap. It's typical David Lynch, with bad acting that would only fly in a 1950's sitcom, and a plot that is written solely to make you wonder what's next, yet really has a story behind it, and never goes anywhere.
If you liked Twin Peaks, you'll love this. Because both were `what's going on' and challenging to think about. But, as usual, David Lynch fails on all but one point. Everything is bad, everything except for one thing, he keeps you constantly asking `why?
What's bad? Well among the things that suck are, the plot, the direction, getting the best work from good actors/actresses, the discontinuity in what could be awesome visually relevant scenes, the subplots that do nothing except show their faces, the characters that seem interesting but aren't played out, etc.
David Lynch has a talent, don't get me wrong. He manages to get every single element of a good film together in one thing. But he also manages to drop the ball on ALL of them, as in most of his works!
If ANY other director could manage to collect even half of the elements in a David Lynch film into one movie, and make them work, it would be a blockbuster! David Lynch has again triumphed in getting every possible good element of a project into one effort, and then making every single element fail.
More crap. If you want to study movies, study David Lynch. He is a mast er at SOMETHING, and that is, defining and bringing the key elements, and many many of them into a project. But, don't study what he does with them, just study what the elements are in the project. He can't deliver on a `suspense', because there never is a climax and an ending. He can't deliver on deep characters, because he just keeps trying to build them, but never makes them have significant meaning to the plot. He can't deliver on the plot, because he brings a great plot to the table without ever bringing a `shocking' or `meaningful' conclusion to it.
If there is anything Lynch is good at, it's this.. He is a mold breaker, and does away with the conventions of the typical Hollywood movie. Unfortunately, the parts he does away with are the best parts. It's groundbreaking, no doubt. But if you break all of the ground and leave nothing left to walk on, you can't go ANYWHERE.