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I SO wanted to like this but it isn't even a shadow of the David Lynch version (which itself wasn't necessarily as good as it could have been). But this overly-hyped and poorly produced mess isn't even the entire story. They stop it about half way through the original story. And up to that point, they fail in a LOT of ways. This is another example of Hollywood Narcissism where a production becomes so enthralled with it's own wonderfulness that they turn a great action story and turn it into a pastiche of artsy effects that make what little story there is, nearly incomprehensible. The scenes are filmed far too dark, the sound is too low (half of the dialogue sounds whispered or mumbled) and someone decided that EVERYTHING needed to be obscured by dust or mist to give some moodiness or something. They obviously sunk a LOT of money into the few effects you see but like so many poorly written scripts nowadays they seem to have forgotten the whole concept of "pacing" I think that most of the Hollywood crowd believes that things need to have the pacing of a daytime soap opera or a crappy reality show that stretches twenty minutes of story into a full hour or more. The dream scenes become little more than a story drag that should have taken up 5 or 10 minutes of the film, at most. The characters are surprisingly shallow and all of that moodiness and thoughtful staring at the camera doesn't add anything to the deeper understanding of them that the book (or the David Lynch version) does so well. I know that this is starting to just sound like a rant of a disgruntled fan... and it is, to a point... but regardless whether you want to believe me or not, PLEASE don't bother sinking $30+ into something this bad. Wait a year or two until they release the rest of the story and then... MAYBE... it will be worth it. Right now, you get half of a painfully self-conscious movie that will leave you bored and/or ticked off. Hope that this review helped you make an informed decision on wasting your time and money on this particular movie.