Lost Highway
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Movie Reviews of Lost Highway
Movie Review: A bad movie that everyone should see once.
Summary: 1 Stars
The movie starts out with a man (Bill Pullman) that suspects his wife (Patricia Arqhardtospell) of cheating on him. He finds video after video proving that it is happening. After a bit into the movie, she ends up dead and the man ends up in jail.
In jail he has a strange dream the night before he disappears and is replaced by another man entirely! It is assumed that he transforms, it is not shown. The 19 year old that replaces him (Getty) is released and the original man is never mentioned again. There are hints though that Bill Pullman's character really exists.
There is a tie in between the two characters that is not seen until near the end. It is almost as if the man that wrote the 'Lost Highway' book wrote 2 books and smashed them together. 2 different men, with 2 different lives that exchange lives for a week or so in time.
The 19 year old is a mechanic working for a mobster Mr. Eddie (Loggia) who is really Dick Durant. Mr. Eddie's wife (Patricia Arqhardtospell) has an affair with the 19 year old and looks very similar to Bill Pullman's wife. Not just because they are played by the same actress, but because they are supposed to be ties between Bill Pullman and Getty.
The style of this movie seems to be a series of artistic shots that would be better off as photography. Shot after shot has 5 seconds of a person standing doing nothing. Then they do something, and stay there for 5 more seconds from a different angle. This movie is very easy to fall asleep to until the 45 minutes into the film when the character Peter Doyle comes into play.
It is an intentionally strange movie that is dark, sometimes crazy and heart pounding and other times eerie. Everyone should watch this movie just once for those reasons. The soundtrack is stellar and it is the best ad for this movie there can ever be.
Movie Review: Limps across the finish line.
Summary: 2 Stars
Parts of Lost Highway are David Lynch's best work, in my opinion -- namely, the first half-hour or so. It is a brilliant satire of Los Angeles. The David Bowie song couldn't be better. Lynch's style has never been better.
Where things go horribly wrong is when the film veers in a totally absurdist direction by completely breaking the fourth wall and creating a dual narrative filled with doppelgangers and parallel structure. Now, while this is a promising idea, it means as a screenwriter your task is going to be exceptionally difficult to make a compelling story and have your audience experience a sense of drama that only this structure can provide. Yet Lynch has absolutely no interest in this and is not up for the challenge. Lost Highway only works as a David Lynch tone-poem, like two hours of half-baked ideas masquerading as a film. It's sophomoric and the parallel structure only serves as a gimmick.
But what is particularly irritating is that Lynch is not happy just letting plot take a backseat -- this film is nothing but plot and more plot; don't look for compelling characters. The performances are either completely over-the-top (Robert Loggia, Robert Blake) or uniformly dull (Balthazar Getty). I have no idea what Lynch was thinking in his direction of Patricia Arquette, but as the femme fatale at the center of this movie she gives one of the worst film performances in history. I understand...it's all postmodern, right? Well, this is a woman that has apparently driven a man into fits of homicidal rage, mental illness, schizophrenia, what have you. Oh but I guess conveniently one could make the argument that her mannerisms are all just reflections of the protagonist's dementia...right? Lost Highway's fans are notorious for arguments such as that one.
When Lynch has the chance to really create a pivotal scene, in which the Patricia Arquette character is reintroduced with blonde hair, he pulls the ultimate hipster cop-out and downs out the soundtrack with a Lou Reed song. It's beyond cheesy.
And then Lynch has the nerve to make it out that what we have watched is just one brilliant cyclical narrative, which is quite simply annoying and makes no sense even within the film's internal logic. Lost Highway makes a mockery of film noir. No amount of "Rammstein" cranked on the soundtrack can smother that fact.
Movie Review: This is Elegant Dark Art
Summary: 5 Stars
Yes, this film has Logic & a Plot!
It is not the familiar Logic and No familiar plot, nonetheless - it is a dark & elegant piece of art.
Here a witch-man played by Robert Blake curses and stalks a young monotonous couple to shake up their life - similar to the dumpster-witch in Mulholland Drive. (Witch herein is used in the popular sense, not the true respected sense).
Upon playing mind-games with the couple - Blake's character discovers where the plot should really take place - in an abandoned wooden hut in the middle of the desert, however to get to the plot - the mechanic, the cars and the jazz-playing couple need to get onto ... LOST HIGHWAY.
AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME!
Movie Review: Lost Gem! Lynch's most underrated film
Summary: 4 Stars
"Lost Highway" is a wonder of a movie. It is a compelling dream-film with its own haunting nightmare logic. Most critics didn't like it. I think this is a film that bothered critics because they didn't know how to react to it. It's hard to judge the film in a conventional manner because, in many ways, this is the ultimate renegade film. Like an abstract painting, it engages the audience (if they are willing) to come up with their own interpretation of, not only what it all means, but, fundamentally, what has transpired.
See it!
Movie Review: Classic David Lynch film finally on DVD
Summary: 4 Stars
I remember when this movie came out in the mid 1990's. This is classic David Lynch weird. Has a great and intricate plot, as well as a start studded cast. Glad it finally came out on DVD.