MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

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.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Jeremy_Urquhart So Inland Empire was a movie.If David Lynch's film career was a video game, then Inland Empire would be both the really difficult final level that goes on for much longer than most of the other levels, and the final, nearly impossible to beat boss battle. It's his trickiest film. I don't even know how to begin to wrap my head around it.Maybe I could watch it a dozen times and begin to understand it, but with each day that goes by, my life gets shorter, and time gets more precious, and I just don't know if future me will ever feel like devoting three hours to this again.Still, as pointless as a numerical rating kind of is to a film like this, I guess I could almost settle on a 6? Maybe? There was more here that I liked or didn't dislike than stuff here that I didn't like, so... It still deserves a better than average score? I think?It lacks the prettiness and visually appealing cinematography of many of Lynch's other films, thanks to it being shot on some really ugly digital format, but I guess that's the style it was going for. Intentional. Or something. Don't even know if I should complain about it.Performances were good. I think. Sometimes I didn't know what the actors were trying to do or emote, so I can't always say for sure.Freaked me out quite a bit. If you're often affected by surreal horror, then you'll probably find something within this film's three hour running time to give you nightmares.Yay.

sergicaballeroalsina Maybe the cinema, in some sense, has not evolved since "Un chien andalou". It is probable that the experimentation in this art has not overcome Maya Deren or Alejandro Jodorowsky. Lynch's risky films confirms this suspicion but... Is everything allowed in this game? Even if it does not work? Inland Empire is a too pretentious, too rigid and poorly-explained thriller. Tedious, at last: Silences in the indecipherable dialogues fill the footage for 3 hours. The surreal imaginary is too static, the swinging between the different planes of the plot is too confusing and the climax is nonexistent. If David Lynch deserves your time you can try to value his attempts: the combination of nightmares and his own Symbology, the rabbits and the rest of the cast, and the disturbing atmospheres! Those attempts are not enough to overcome the void that exists in this film. An exercise in experimentation that is unsuccessful, too cryptic, failed and without guarantees that David Lynch's audience will like it.

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.

Lars Bear The 3 out 10 I rated this film is for the performance of Laura Dern; when she was given a chance to play a recognizable human character doing credibly human things, she was excellent. If there is any sense to be dragged out of this movie, it's because she put it there. In most other respects, it failed to impress.It gives me no pleasure to say this, because I very much like most of Lynch's other work. I have a feeling that IE is the movie that Lynch always wanted to make, but was at least to some extent constrained to follow the conventions of mainstream film-making by the studios. In IE, however, the brakes are off. It's as if the studio bosses said: "Go on David, do whatever you like." And, oh boy, he did. What we've ended up with seems to be a jumble of all the least comprehensible bits of his other movies, all stuck together in no particular order.Even though we haven't always been able to follow the plot of Lynch's films -- if they even have one -- we could generally rely on exquisite visual artistry. IE, however, lacks even that. I'm told that it was filmed on a mid-priced camcorder; I don't know if that's true, but it surely has the worst technical cinematography of any serious movie ever made by grown-ups. I assume that this is intentional -- it takes work to make something this unappealing. I mean, a bunch of school-kids with a Handycam will sometimes succeed in creating a scene that is properly lit and in focus, even if by accident.And the characteristic, understated humour of Lynch's other films also seems to be missing here -- it's relentlessly grim and gloomy from start to finish.If this movie had been made by anybody other than Lynch, I would have given up after fifteen minutes, and just assumed it was a heap of self-indulgent, pseudo-intellectual nonsense. But because I know that Lynch can make a great film, I toughed it out. I'm not at all sure it was worth it.