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Rating: 4/10 (8 April 2003)

Mulholland Dr. looks like David Lynch had several movies in the works at one time and, lacking the skill to make sense of any one of them, shuffled them together. At the outset the movie looks like an okay, but badly acted story. The only question is, are they acting like bad actors or are they really bad? The story develops a certain mystery potential for a time and then takes a turn for the incomprehensible. Hey, Dave, you already had the mystery set up, the confusion and random plot twists are not necessary. You could have made an okay, if not brilliant, movie by going with the first plot twist rather than letting it get out of control.