The first half hour was kind of interesting. Teresa Palmer, Bob's first murder victim as mentioned in the series is shown here before showing the last week of Laura Palmer. The really ugly side of Laura Palmer as hinted in the series is so in your face here. Obviously there is no suspense and the movie only makes sense if you watched the series. Personally I am not a fan of Twin Peaks but the show had a charm like that of a small town and the friendly, quirky characters in it. However because of this charm in the series or the lack of it in the movie I am sure a lot of people would prefer the series. The movie is R-rated and rightly so as we see how Laura Palmer was exploited by Bob, Leland Palmer (her dad) and some strangers at the creepy, dodgy night club but she is really not all that innocent. She has some issues like cocaine addiction. Cannot hold that against her as addiction is a disease. So anyway everything is just loud and annoying with a lot of screaming. You would not get scared only mildly irritated.

Movie Review: "Fire Walk With Me" (1992)Director David Lynch sticks to the moment with a "Twin Peaks" prequel story a seemingly fair young teenage girl Laura Palmer, with no further convictions portrayed by actress Sheryl Lee, who nevertheless lets all the supports including father playing Ray Wise and close-to-no-friend Madchen Amick as waitress of the sleepy hollow state of existence within the village of "Twin Peaks" where then business and murder becomes the talk of the town, when deeper undergrounds to prostitution, lying betrayal, adultery, cheating law defying citizen are the real cause of well-researched as society-exposing U.S. village's decline becomes evident to the watchful spectator, who needs to follow instead consume the contents given by the "Twin Peaks" original visual series, starting from 1990. Copyright 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

"Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me" is a film made just after the TV series "Twin Peaks" and covers material leading up to the beginning of the first episode of the series. The show begins with a different FBI agent (Chris Isaac) investigating the death of Teresa Banks...a year before Laura Palmer was killed by the same perpetrator. This, and a brief appearance by Kyle McLaughlen, make up the beginning portion which lasts about 20 minutes. The rest consists of seeing Laura Palmer during the final week of her life.So why did I say in the summary that it was rather unnecessary? Well, this is because there weren't any surprises....after seeing the series you know who Bob is and because of this I didn't see a lot of reason for the film. Plus, although Lara Flynn Boyle refused to appear in the movie, she was a very important character and it's obvious that Moira Kelly is NOT Boyle. Finally, the film is much grittier than the series. You couldn't show the nudity and extreme violence of the film in the TV series....but, for me, I did NOT need to see Laura's breasts or all the blood. Sorry....just didn't get a lot out of this one...even though I did enjoy the series.

I would like to preface this review by saying how much I loved Twin Peaks. If it hadn't been for the Twilight Zone, it would be my favorite show of all time. It's how deeply I loved and appreciated the show that led to my disappointment upon finally watching the movie.People often extol David Lynch as a visionary, an under-appreciated master. Personally, I think he's a talented man, who excels at the avant-garde. Mulholland Dr. and Eraserhead come to mind as perfect examples of this. The problem comes when he is given way too much creative freedom. Although I don't know too much about the production of FWWM, I'm thinking very few people intervened, or reined Lynch in for the entire process. The result was a jumbled, bleak, depressing, and just generally off putting mess.Part of what made the show so great was its ambiance. When I watch it, I still get this warm, fuzzy feeling. Despite the dark subject matter, somehow Twin Peaks still seemed peaceful, friendly, and almost otherworldly in its charm. There are little moments sprinkled throughout the series bursting with folksy humor. It's almost as funny as it is suspenseful. In part due to it's folksy-ness, the whole town felt separated from the real world. Maybe it's because I didn't grow up in that kind of place, but I felt just like Dale Cooper; delighted with everything I saw.That's all gone in the movie. No charm, no fuzzy feeling, no humor. It's bleak, disturbing, and unnecessarily dark. It didn't have the same sensibility as the show. It felt more like Silence of the Lambs, which, don't get me wrong is an amazing movie, but it's not right for Twin Peaks.Now to my other problem: everything else. From David Lynch's comic relief character from the show who he shoehorned into the movie for seemingly no reason, as he provides no comic relief whatsoever, to the uncharismatic Dale Cooper lookalike and his somehow less charismatic partner, to the actual Dale Cooper, who seems more like an emotionless clone of Cooper than anything, to David Bowie's remarkably unnecessary character and his dreadful American accent, to the discount Black Lodge with its numerous pointlessly weird spirits, who all eat creamed corn for some reason, to the x-rated after-school special life of Laura Palmer, to the soul crushingly disturbing incest/rape "climax," which was in fact nothing more than an extended mashup of people screaming and crying which was either actually two hours or just felt like two hours, Fire Walk With Me was a mess.It seemed more like David Lynch feverishly trying to figure out how much nonsense, violence, and nudity he could pack into two and a half hours, simply because he was finally free from network standards, than it did a cohesive story. I get that Lynch doesn't like it when people try to make sense of his movies, but it's incredibly frustrating as a viewer, especially when he doesn't even throw me a bone.