Walking out of the cinema bewildered is not a good sign

Rating: Null/10 (6 May 2002)

This is bad.
No amount of half-assed film-theory rhetoric can get you out of this one.
This is about as interesting as someone recounting one of their dreams. For them it was amazing: Insightful, intelligent, maybe even beautiful. But as you are forced to sit there, smiling, nodding, bored to tears, it really means nothing.
I was sort of buying into it (FFS its Davis Lynch; give it a few minutes - he amazed me with Lost Highway, moved me with The Elephant Man and Straight Story (but bored me to death with Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet and Eraserhead)). Then you get a dull, tastefully lit lesbian scene. Great if you want to see some tits. Then all continuity falls apart. Then there's some more gratuitous tits, fully lit. It doesn't make sense whichever way you pretend to analyse it. It's a rotten screenplay, made sorta interesting by some really great cinematography.
Please, by all means rent it, see what you think but don't buy the damn thing.