unlike others and i refuse to call this pitiful excuse for a movie a triumph of style over substance ( i do not want to give style a bad name ) . still and it the most apt description that come to mind . a pointless and unpleasant and ultimately meaningless assault on the eye and ear and wonderland leave one wonder only why the film be make in the first place and who in their right mind give the greenlight to this dreary and tangled mess . a biography of porn star john holmes . a study of who the man be and why he go into the business and how it affect him . great . bound to be compelling and bound to be entertain . bound to be enlighten and fascinate on about a million level ( and i have zero interest in porn ) . but a confusing and violent and rashomon style study of a series of murder holmes be connect with after his career end . who in hell care . what insight do we gain . this film completely ignore the most interesting aspect of john holmes life that he be a porno star . wonderland might as well have be about anyone represent the fact that the main character be the most famous male adult film star in history be almost irrelevant . to make matter about a thousand time bad and the picture be load down with jerkoff gimmick annoy machine gun edit and sloppy dogme 95 camerawork and unnecessary split screen graphic and animation and etc . etc . in the absence of a compelling story and unique main character and the director ( and i use the term loosely ) have throw together a dozen or so technique from other film and decide to call the result mess a movie and among these represent the trendy and bleach bypass look of narc or traffic or minority report while the frantic and often incomprehensible and throw the piece of film in the air cut style of natural born killer or 28 day later while the fill every moment of silence with an old song to evoke the period soundtrack of goodfellas or blow while the groovy and retro title sequence of velvet goldmine or autofocus or catch me if you can . the list go on and on and on . pathetic . i want to like this movie . i have real hope for it . wonderland avenue have be around for year while have the context of the murder be emphasize rather than the murder themselves and i think it could have work . have the murder ( and holmes grow involvement with seedy l. a. type ) signal the end of a career and or the end of the swing 70 and i think the film could have have meaning while it could have serve a purpose . a it be meaningless . pointless . who care how many perspective exist on a series of murder generally unknown by the public . the case isn not famous enough to merit such painstaking examination . this film should have be the third act of the john holmes story . that it . period . and it could have work . what that . oh and right and right and they do not want to tell a traditional rise and fall story . they do not want to make boogie night or goodfellas or star 80 or autofocus . they want their film to be different . right . well and in one sense and they succeed . there a big difference between those film and wonderland . the difference be those film be good .