While the structure, script, and acting are all very good, viewers who are unfamiliar with the TV series will have trouble following the film, and those who’ve seen the show will be bored by it. This is the problem with prequels, particularly when the whole fun of the TV show was FBI Agent Dale Cooper’s rigorous, brilliant and suspenseful unraveling of the mystery of Laura Palmer’s murder. If you see the prequel first, it ruins the fun of the show, and if you see the show first, the prequel film is boring, despite the bondage and sex. Oh, and one of the main actresses from the TV series couldn’t return for the prequel. The replacement is so awful it’s a wonder Lynch didn’t simply write her out of the film. Cooper and fellow agent Albert Rosenfield are nothing more than cameos in the film.
Lynch is a top-notch director, in my top five for sure. It’s a shame he didn’t make this film a finale to the series rather than a half-assed prequel. Ah well, not all ideas are winners. Don’t go out of your way to see this, but it’s watchable – 2 ½ stars
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