Oh please....

Rating: Null/10 (27 June 2003)

The plot of Mulholland Drive can be summed up on in sentence (WARNING, POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD IN REVIEW)"Filthy, scary homeless men hold the key to alternate universes". By alternate universes you can also read dreams as they are similar in nature. I watched the movie and had a good, general idea of what was going on, but I couldn't bring myself to care too much about it in the end.
My history with Lynch is spotty. I watched and enjoyed the Twin Peaks series in my late teens and early twenties. I like Blue Velvet enough to watch it whenever I come across it on cable. I have never seen Lost Highway, and I'm not fretting overly much about it.
I feel that Lynch takes himself to be a misunderstood genius, a visionary filmmaker who transcends the means of others in his style and presentation. My take is, sometimes Lynch goes to far when trying to be "different". Much of this picture feels like masturbatory filmmaking to me, and Lynch is the only one who really got any appreciation out of it. This movie is a haven for pseudo-intellectuals who enjoy the fact that they can "get" movies that the sub-intelligent masses are not equipped to understand.
Simply put, the movie didn't do anything for me, and for that I'd give it a 4/10.