The only reason that this does not get 5 stars is because of the quality of the DVD. It seems as though they have just transfered it directly from video because the picture is very grainy. Another problem is that there are no subtitles and this causes a problem for one scene in particular. In America when the film was released this scene and several others were supposed to have subtitles however they are missing from this version.

So it's a shame that such a brilliant film is let down by a poor quality DVD. Hopefully a better version will be released sometime in the future.

Don't look for too many answers, you may be disappointed
Review date: 2004-01-11 Rating: 10 out of 10

For all fans of David Lynch, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is truly mandatory viewing, not least because it is by far his most surreal and puzzling work. The movie begins with Kiefer Sutherland and Chris Isaak investigating the murder of Teresa Banks. As this begins the dialogue between the two reveals the secret to the thinking required to decipher this movie by analysing the appearance of a strange woman presented to them by their superior and the symbolic nature of all her actions. BUT BE WARNED this type of thinking may not be enough to unravel this enigma of a movie, as the Teresa Banks story soon concludes and the rest of the movie focuses upon the last days of Laura Palmer, essentially the pre runner to the TV series.
Lynch requires you to think in a very perculiar way, and although this may discourage many viewers, don't let the perplexity of it all dissuade you, or you'll miss a treat. The imagery is nothing short of unique, and certain scenes just and story lines are truly baffling, such as the scenario involving placing the picture on the wall. What all this has to do with a girl who eventually gets murdered may seem complex, but that's where the pleasure lies, in working it out yourself. Even if you can't unravel it all, the pleasure lies in the uniqueness of it.
A must for Lynch fans and recomended to any fans of alternative cinema, or those dissatisfied with regular cinema and long for something less straightforward.

lynch's best
Review date: 2003-12-14 Rating: 10 out of 10

This has got to be one of the most underrated films of all time. I'm a lynch nut and I've got all his films, but this for me is his best. I never liked it when Twin Peaks the series got too charming and too quirky, as it deviated too much from the underlying darkness and evil that lurkes in the town. It's no coincidence that the episodes that Lynch directed himself in the series (the first one, a couple in the middle and the last two) were the best ones. This film takes everything that the series was aching to become and goes wild with it; the pandoras box that was bursting to open in the series explodes in this film. Its a real Lynchian nightmare from beginning to end and is extremely unsettling, not only due to the more explicitly violent and sexual scenes, but mostly because of the unbearable tension that remains throughout. Alot of Twin Peaks fans hated it but I cannot understand this unless they never really appreciated it for what it was in the first place: a dark and surreal glimpse into Hell on Earth. This is what I would call a masterpiece; not just a film, but an experience.

Uncut british release
Review date: 2003-03-22 Rating: 8 out of 10

The DVD looks fine, however the most explicit scenes have a video-like quality to them, which must be because the people who made the transfer had a good 35mm print that was cut (Britain!) and an uncut videotape or something. This is something I would expect from an obscure Bruno Mattei flick (say, Porno Holocaust?!), but this is a mainstream-big-compagny-1992 movie!?! The sound isn't amazing, and there are no extras.

The movie however, doesn't loose it's integrity however, and this weird piece of fiction brings a new light to the characters of Twin Peaks, but remember: This is not and have never been a part of the tv-series - it's a movie, and one of Lynch's scariest and straight-forward appealing. The visual ideas of Twin Peaks get more room and Lychs makes each scene surreal, however keeps them straight foreward enough to see our own lives in them.

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