This Movie Sucks!

Rating: Null/10 (22 July 2002)

The only thing this film has worth watching are the sex scenes between Naomi Watts and Laura Harring. They are both gorgeous, especially blonde Naomi.

Unfortunately, the rest of the film sucks. I've never been a David Lynch fan (even though I loved Twin Peaks) and this film is one of the reasons why.

As I understand it, it was originally shot as a a pilot for a TV program but it wasn't picked up by the networks. So Lynch brought back the two female stars and reshot some scenes, including the nude lesbian sex, then edited it into a 2-1/2 hour film.
Watching the film it seems like he either forgot to edit in some scenes or needed to shoot some additional scenes because a lot of plot lines and characters are introduced in the beginning hour that are never mentioned again. Then the film suddenly ends leaving you with a "what the hell was that?" look on your face.
I tried piecing together the point of the film based on what I saw, but for the life of me I couldn't figure it out.
Another IMDB poster recently stated in his review of the film that "..after the film concluded...most of the audience was still glued in their same position, in deep thought, trying to understand the movie and piece the puzzle together before it leaves their thoughts."
I would imagine most of them were thinking "Why the hell did I waste $9.00 and almost three hours of my life on this thing."

What's even more surprising is Lynch won best director at Cannes for this piece of crap!!
BTW, the DVD itself is terrible as well. There are no special features at all (I was hoping for deleted scenes) and it isn't even broken up into chapters!! Even DVDs of cheap direct to video films have chapters. But, the film is one long chapter. Apparently the studios -- or Lynch -- didn't feel it was worth spending the time or effort on creating a decent DVD.

Anyway, rent it for the sex scenes, but that's about it.
JK