A dated and over rated Lynch movie.

Rating: 4/10 (18 April 2017)

I was so excited to see this movie. Everyone told me "oh it's so crazy! Really makes you think! it will blow your mind! It's so original!" Well I watched it and it is not original or mind blowing and it is certainly not a great movie.
First off, Pros: It is a very beautiful and well shot movie. As always David Lynch is a masterful director and injects this film with a lot of his odd, seemingly pointless, yet entertaining scenes. This movie is not hard on the eyes at all and for most of the movie I was enthralled and entertained.
So what are the cons???
It ends with a clichÃ©d "psychotic lesbian" story that's been told a million times. Girl meets girl, girl loves girl, other girl decides to date a boy instead and the crazy gay person goes postal. That is everything that happens.
The big gimmick is that at the end of the movie the audience is left to wonder what was real and what was a delusion. But the story is so uninspired that in the end I didn't care what was reality and what wasn't. Because regardless of the ambiguous scenes, when it's all said and done it's another late 90's, early 2000's cautionary tale to fuel homophobia.
Sorry folks. This is David Lynch's most over rated film and one of the most over rated thrillers of all time. The ending ruined everything for me and turned it into garbage. I am not one to immediately dismiss a movie for something like this. I love other movies with negative portrayals of psychotic gay people like Silence of the Lambs and High Tension, but those films had other qualities that still kept things interesting. This is a self-indulgent, pseudo-intellectual story that is ruined by a clichÃ© ending from an otherwise very original and talented director. I really wish I had never seen it and was still mystified by the idea of the movie.