david lynch and the visionary director who create unforgettable film reveal darker realm of life such a elephant man and blue velvet and who bring to mainstream tv a deep aesthetic and consciousness with the twin peaks series and unfortunately go overboard with inland empire writing and direct the bad film of his career . inland empire be arguably lynch most ambitious effort represent a meandering three hour dive into a nightmarish dream world where all his previous theme and obsession convey . there be enslaved woman ( blue velvet and twin peak ) and woman in trouble ( mulholland drive ) and supernatural entity in other realm ( twin peak and lose highway and mulholland drive ) and dissociative fugue and alternative reality ( lose highway and mulholland drive ) . a expect of a lynch movie and the cast be top notch start with laura dern and it even include jeremy iron a a movie director . but the direction and the script fail to give u something of depth or a remotely compelling and entertaining story and therefore this lynchean nightmare become endless and pointless and and ultimately boring . each shot of dreary and dilapidated polish building or empty and dark hollywood set become endless . every time the character be hurt or menace and the camera do a close up distort their face or they behave histrionically a in the bad of the mexican telenovelas . this be simply poor direction . these close ups and long shot and among other cinematic pyrotechnic and be lynch filler to disguise the emptiness of inland empire and although both film be similar in plot and style and inland empire suffers compare to mulholland drive . lynch deserve the oscar for that brilliant film which be memorable for it character development along a dark psychic ride and element that be miss in inland empire replace by a cheap thrill pose for art and profundity . the plot be vintage lynch and but it be the most convoluted and long and and silly of them all . lose girl and an enslaved woman in polish hotel or purgatory watch show on a psychic tv represent a sitcom with supernatural rabbit people and scene from a polish film that never get finish because the leading actor be murder and and the life of an american actress who start in the remake of the polish film . nikki ( laura dern ) and the actress and begin an affair with her leading man and freak out enter an alternative reality become sue and the white trash character she be play in the movie . sue be have an extramarital affair with billy and a rich man and and live with smithy in the house of the movie set . sue be psychically connect to enslave prostitute who teletransport themselves from the snowy street of poland in the 1940s to present day hollywood boulevard . the prostitute talk about men and love and and t and a and suddenly burst into dance for no reason they do a killer number with the loco motion which be unfortunately too short . sue husband and smithy and who be polish and leave for poland to work with a circus . sue go to see billy and billy wife beat her . sue become a whore work hollywood boulevard with the dance loving and space or time jumping whore . the phantom and an evil supernatural man who have lose girl enslave in purgatory and kill an early incarnation of smithy who be lose girl lover . the phantom hypnotize billy wife who be the reincarnation of a polish woman who be stab to death with a screwdriver by the original actress in the polish movie . the rabbit people be also wise and old polish men and have a séance with lose girl and they bring smithy to talk to lose girl . the old men give a gun to smithy to kill the phantom . sue get stab with a screwdriver on hollywood blvd . by billy wife and dy . that be the end of the movie and it be a wrap . nikki be congratulate by the director but she ignore everybody and walk away from the movie set remain a sue . she go to the house where she find the gun smithy be give by the old men . she go through some dark corridor and find herself in the polish hotel or purgatory where the phantom be and a she shoot him his face become sue own distorted face . the phantom dy and all the woman be free and lose girl reunite with smithy and her son . then nikki be back in her home and all the woman have a big a party and some woman shake their booty to a nina simone song . they be in a kind of good place and not purgatory . it be not clear whether nikki or sue be an invention of lose girl who have be the real murderer and be in purgatory or whatever while in the final analysis and it do not matter because the movie be empty and lack any redemptive quality . it be hard to understand why some of the critic and audience fail to realize that this be a very bad film and poorly write and badly direct . lynch be a true artist and have do some remarkable film for which he should be praise and ala and inland empire be a disjointed and tedious and nonsense mess fill with pretentiousness . if you want to waste three hour of your life with a superficial mind tease fill with pseudo transpersonal psychology and collective unconscious reference and see it at your own risk .