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ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Alistair Olson After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Behnam azizi This is officially the worst thing I have ever seen on the screen. I mean including anything you can see on any screen, from those error messages, windows blue screen to cheap action movies, bad advertisements, and even those annoying physically damaged cellphone screens, this "Inland Empire" is the worst.There is nothing, a whole 3 hours of nothing. The more some Lynch fanboys try to extract something from it, the more ridiculous it gets. And don't get me wrong, I gave 8 stars to some of his other works so this has Nothing to do with a name. The fact is, the movie is a piece of garbage that is an insult to everyone who watches it.Don't waste your time.

Charles Herold (cherold) I've had dreams like this. Everything's confused and mushed together, you find yourself trying to fix something using a method that will make no sense upon waking. Not a nightmare so much as an annoyance, an endless period of unpleasantness.That's the experience of Inland Empire.The first time I watched this movie I gave up about half an hour in. It wasn't just that it was random and incoherent, but also that it was painfully slow. Every scene dragged. Rehearsals for the movie Laura Dern was working on revealed a really boring movie, and we saw a lot of it.But a few months later, after watching Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks: The Return, I thought maybe I should try again. Maybe, as with Mulholland, it will all click together.There is debate on whether one should even try to make sense of Inland Empire. Some argue you should just *experience* it. So the first thing to mention is I did not enjoy the experience. The movie is just so slow, with so little happening. There are good elements; Dern is excellent, especially when telling grim stories to an unnamed man, and there's an oppressive sense of dread that I like, but overall I was just bored. Mulholland Drive made sense to me by the end, but even if it hadn't, I could still say I enjoyed the experience of watching it. I can't say that of Inland Empire.After I watched the film I read some analysis. Some people began by saying, "this movie isn't that hard to understand once you get the key," but these people have radically different analyses. So no, this is not easy to understand, although there do seem to be some points of agreement. But I think the reality is, as one writer suggested, that Lynch was just messing around with his friends and his digital camera and at a certain point had so much material that he thought he might as well turn it into a movie. Lynch himself said he didn't know where the movie was going. So while yes, you can create a narrative out of it if you play with the chronology and the characters, it's probably nothing to do with Lynch.This is the Lynch of Eraserhead; the artsy guy who isn't afraid to bore or annoy his audience. Some people love that. Some people hate a movie that is comprehensible, wanting something loose that allows for interpretation. This movie is for those people. If you're not one of those people, I would suggest skipping this.And if you want to see a really great movie that blurs the line between movies and reality, seek out the anime Millennium Actress.

cesaroi Most people consider "Mulholland Dr.", David Lynch's Masterpiece. I can see why they would say that, but I think this film is hugely underrated, and most people dislike it, probably because of the way this was shot, the run time or maybe even the context. But for me David Lynch's content just gets better and better with each movie you see, and this is no exception, this could be Lynch's Masterpiece, not just because of the really surrealist quality to this film, because of the message, the way this was put together, and how it came to be. I recommend first experiencing this film, and then analyzing it if you are into deconstructing stuff, so you can get the message or anything. But, if you're just in it because it just "mindfucks" you, then you still won't be disappointed. If you didn't like the movie because of the aesthetic or anything, I urge you to give it a second chance. And if you're a David Lynch fan, let's just hope that he makes a new film soon.

J Smith (Spike_the_Cactus) This feels like the natural culmination point of Lynch's films. Mulholland Drive was a masterpiece, whereas this feels like the indulgence that the latter film afforded him. That's not meant derogatorily. Mulholland Drive was a perfect Lynch film, but Inland Empire felt like he'd finally got the green light to follow all of his artistic tendencies as far as he wanted (even jokingly acknowledged in the final scene). It's a descent into madness, and the rule book went out of the window. This has some of Lynch's most memorable scenes, but it also pushes the viewer's natural inclination to apply order beyond the limit.It's not free form stream of consciousness, but is right on the line. There are hints all over the place, but unlike Mulholland Drive there isn't a suggested interpretation that emerges. I have my own ideas about what this film is meant to be, but that's my personal reading. I believe that Lynch aimed to make a film that invited multiple interpretations, and which resisted definitive resolution. It's this open-ended approach that makes it such an enigmatic and imaginative film. It provokes your imagination.