Wild At Heart Details

Simply fantastic

I took two unsuspecting friends to see this film at the cinema. When it finished I laughed for 20 minutes non-stop. My friends said nothing.

This is a David Lynch Tour de Force. It starts with Nicolas Cage smashing a guy's head in to the sound of heavy metal. That's a warning to the faint hearted to leave now or else. Then there's sex, violence, crime, Elvis impressions, jealousy, envy, deception, more violence, the Wizard of Oz and the open road.

Great performance from Laura Dern and Willem Dafoe as the ugliest man on the planet.

Possibly my favourite David Lynch movie... if there weren't so many good ones to choose from.

If you know David Lynch's work then this will be very familiar territory. A little too familiar in fact, this often comes across as a series of recycled or re-interpreted moments from Twin Peaks, not quite as effective the second time round. But, although it doesn't really work as a whole, there are more than enough individual scenes and excellent performances to keep you entertained. Dern is tremendously trashy and the ever reliable Defoe is particularly grotesque.

Amongst the shocking violence and black humour, highlights include a brilliant "head blown off with shotgun" moment that is worth the rental by itself.