I only have one good thing to say about this flick...

Rating: 6/10 (10 April 2002)

...and that's "Naomi Watts". Lynch, in an apparent effort to stretch, appears to becomes obsessive about this noir nonsense which by all accounts is a huge movie but which exit polls at theaters would probably reveal to be a loser. Bottom line, I about fell asleep from boredom as Lynch took his own sweet time pulling together the pieces of a jig-saw puzzle which develops into just so much excessive silliness. On the up side Watts turns in a stellar performance and Lynch limps along with no big names. On the down side is everything else: No characters we can identify or empathize with; no hero or anyone we can care about; a shoddy convoluted plot which just gets more ridiculous as time wears on; etc..yadayadayada. Bottom line, this movie sucked except for the titillating nude chicks making out part which only engages the limbic system. Hype = boxoffice and, as with "Memento", most moviegoers will have trouble understanding what this flick was about and why they should care. Recommended only for film fanatics, critics, dilettantes, and the like.