To me the only great movies break new ground.

Rating: 10/10 (28 May 2002)

This film handles a formulaic Hollywood story; small town girl goes to Hollywood and either succeeds or fails. However, in this case she does both. The way Lynch approaches this story in his inimitable Twin Peaks style, complete with the haunting Badalamenti score, makes this movie a revolutionary one.
This last two years we have seen movies like Memento, Vanilla Sky, Traffic, Moulin Rouge, and Mulholland Drive. These are movies that take chances, show new slants on old stories, but more than anything else, these movies assume the audience is intelligent.
Nothing is given away, some things are hidden, and others have clues to the truth.
Not since the sixties with the wave of Trussaut, Fellini, Resnais, and even Polanski have we seen better thinking man's movies.
I would say this about Mulholland Drive; If you liked Swordfish, you will HATE Mulholland Drive. And you are the poorer for it.