Amazon.com Customer Reviews
 Rated 5 out of 5!
Obviously, Lynch was doing SOMETHING right...
Any film that creates this much activity with people taking their time to write on-line reviews (over 800 on Amazon, over 1200 on IMDB) will have many folks at opposite ends of the rating scale. To survive with 4 and 8 star ratings, respectively, says a lot for the staying power of the film. My rankings? A 5 for Amazon and a 9 for IMDB. What David Lynch has created is an engrossing 2 hour and 27 minute cinematic experience that I was sorry to see come to a close. Any film that leaves as many indelible images in my mind as this one, will always get my support. (The scene in the Club Silencio featuring a Spanish version of Roy Orbison’’s ’’Crying’’ is inspired film-making. The scene at ’’The Corral’’ was just plain spooky, and the hit-man in Adam Kesher’’s house was hilarious.) I’’m not going to get into the arguments about "what did this scene mean?" or "this one didn’’t go anywhere", mainly because it’’s fruitless. You either get it or you don’’t. To be fair, this film made much more sense the second time around. That I wanted to watch it a second time says something about Lynch’’s ability to entertain even if you’’re lost somewhere in the story. Yes, I know I used the terms ’’entertain’’ and ’’Lynch’’ in the same sentence, but it was intentional. I wasn’’t dreaming. Honest. (Watch the film as a rental first, because it’’s not everyone’’s cup of tea. That’’s what I did. THEN I put it on my "Wish List.") Thank you, Mr. Lynch. You are now officially forgiven for ’’Dune.’’ Rated 4 out of 5
David Lynch’’s best film
If you have not seen the movie and plan to or possibly might see it then do not read this review because I will spoil it for you unless you want to know ahead of time what the plot is of this rather confusing but unique and startling film.
When I first saw this film I had no idea what was going on especially at the end of the film. Then when seeing it a second time I realized that the movie is about Diane having a dream that she is Betty and the girl she contracted to be murdered,Camilla, is named Rita and is an amnesiac. I would like to see a sequel to this movie because it is my feeling that since we never see Camilla’’s death that she escaped the contract that Diane paid for. The other thing that I would like to see is a version of this movie in which everything in is chronological order so that the movie doesnt have to be viewed several times to get it straight as to what happened before the dream and what happened after the dream. In any event not since the movie Rosemary’’s Baby has a film been made which incorporates fantasy and reality in such an ingenious way. I also felt sorry for Diane and why she wanted to kill her exlover Camilla was understandable as was her wish fufillment dream that takes up most of the movie. Of course there may be people who disagree with my interpretation of the movie or will disagree with making any modifications to the form of the movie. Rated 1 out of 5
SMOKING REEFER
THIS MOVIE ONLY MAKES SENSE IF YOU ARE SMOKING REEFER!
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