Lynchian flop

Rating: 5/10 (4 August 2010)

This movie has an expensive cast, expensive production, good camera, and a decent plot. It's the necessity to make an entertainment piece of work 'artsy', which brings it all crashing down to make it almost unbearable and slightly ridiculous. The attempt to bring a surreal and fantastic atmosphere to a straight up thriller just does not work in this case, although I respect the attempt. The thickness of the plot in Lynch's 'Blue Velvet', or the wonderful well thought through events and props in Guillermo del Toro's 'Pan's Labyrinth', for instance, have to be committed to all the way, and not a half-attempt as it is done here. All that happens here is that the actors seem forced and their lines scream out 'I am so poetic' at you throughout the whole movie! Even the blood which may have been an attempt to create some sort of color play and effect just seems like someone dropped a bucket of acrylic paint all over the place.