Inland Empire (2006)
2/10
Even a Lynch fan has trouble stomaching this dog.
7 January 2010
Hoo Boy, what a stinker, but so bad it's good in parts. I love David Lynch and his various works, but that couldn't keep me from realizing this is a piece of poorly thought out trash. It's the sort of sloppy movie-making where they aren't 100% sure what everything in the script means either so they use the art of confusing imagery to try and distract you from the ever creeping realization that this is a really boring movie.

PLOT: an actress married to a jealous husband gets a leading part in a movie with supposedly hunky leading man. Friction ensues, and the actress can't help noticing the script is starting to resemble her life.. is the script cursed? Brace yourself for continual attempts at dream sequences without any special effects other than lighting and location. The movie is forgiven somewhat for having ubiquitous D list T&A strewn throughout the movie for no apparent reason other than it's awfully nice to look at. Unfortunately it's all PG and no real skin.

FAILURE: this movie fails due to a very low budget feel, intentionally wooden acting, and completely confused attempts at being mysterious without really ever having an interesting mystery to speak of. It basically infers that the script is a portal of some kind but the special effects used to get that point across are so bad that it takes a lot of strength to sit through this whole thing.
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