This is a very good film. When David Lynch re-released his original cut in 1992 there was over an hour of footage that was edited out of the final cut. For years fans were begging to see this footage. Then after 22 years "David Lynch" did release them. They are refereed to as "The Missing Pieces". As nice as it was to see these scenes they were not edited back into the film. I just watched the Q2 fan edit for the first time and it was GREAT!!!It made "Fire Walk With ME" more complete. I have seen the original version many times and still enjoyed even if it didn't make too much sense! THE Q2 fan edit makes the whole film make sense. The Q2 fan edit reinserts the missing pieces and places them in the order in which they appeared in the screenplay. Also restored is a countdown. It tells you how many days Laura Palmer has left to live. Now upon watching this fan edit you can full understand why David Lynch cut them. However he should have left in all the Theresa Banks Footage. He also she have kept in the David Bowie scenes.The fan edit runs about 3.5 Hours. If your a fan of season 3 of "Twin Peaks" then you must see the fan edit!

Twin Peaks is probably my favorite show of all time. I've been a David Lynch fan for years, ever since I got blown away watching Mulholland Drive. With the exception of Dune, I pretty much will go to bat for all of his films, they are excellent. An acquired taste yes, but Lynch is truly a visionary. Twin Peaks was a near perfect show that was cancelled too early (at least it came back). I watched Fire Walk With Me once after my first watch of the TV show and liked it but just knew a revisit of the film would make me appreciate the art behind it even more. This was exactly the case.Fire Walk With Me is basically a prequel to Twin Peaks. We first see the events directly after the death of Teresa Banks, and then fast forward to the events leading up to the death of Laura Palmer. We get to see a dead girl basically spring to life and see the beauty of Laura Palmer and the inner turbulence and turmoil she experienced. She had so much going on, a wide range of emotions. She was nowhere near as innocent or faithful as people expected her to be. She was sex crazed, drug fueled, and self destructive. And at the same time she was viciously haunted by the malevolent spirit BOB, and his human embodiment.That plot would probably sound confusing to anyone not familiar with the show. That's basically a clue to go watch the show. We get a few new characters and portrayals with this film. We are introduced to Agent Chet Desmond, because Kyle MacLachlan sort of wanted to distance himself from the film (so he has a much smaller role). Sherilyn Fenn had other arrangements. Lara Flynn Boyle did not return to portray Donna Hayward so she was played by Moira Kelly. None of this really effects the film. It would have been nice to see most of the cast on this cut (most of the cast can be seen on the missing pieces/extended scenes which is a feature length film on its own).Fire Walk With Me is straight up horror. It's pure Lynch madness at his finest. Rapid slowed down images, quick cuts with jarring sounds, and sheer terrifying imagery; hallmark David Lynch. Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer is so great. I love that this film was mad to really get to see her in this role and she knocked it out of the park. There is so much mystique and mythos in the world of Twin Peaks, its so easy to get engulfed in its world. I loved every minute of this film.Cinema lovers will find a way to connect this film with other Lynch films. There is a prominent stage act performing under blue spotlight (Blue Velvet), a mysterious item is almost like a portal that plays the utmost importance in the film (much like the key in Mulholland Drive). This film wont be for everybody, especially if you aren't too familiar with the craziness that Lynch brings. Fire Walk With Me signified the first time Lynch was basically able to bring his vision without network regulations. its a crazy, horrifying, sex and violence heavy film and a beautiful entry into the Twin Peaks saga.9/10

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.

Twin Peaks was a good and enjoyable TV series. This movie is terrible in comparison. For one thing, it lacks all the charm, suspense, plot twists, story lines, quirky characters, and polish that the TV series had. But even worse, there are blatant inconsistencies. For example, Laura was supposed to have had sexual relations with three men on the night of her death, and to have been attacked by the bird. In this movie we only see her with one male and she is not attacked by the bird. This movie brings almost nothing new to the plot and just summarizes what we already knew from the TV series, so I expected that it should at least try to be consistent and get the details right. The characters are dull, it drags, it has a low quality B-movie feel, and it's complete with pointless little cameos from other characters from the TV series that don't belong in Laura's story. (The majority of this movie revolves around Laura and Donna exclusively, with minor roles for Bobby, James, and Leland.) It has no suspense, but it does have some nudity and unnecessary grotesqueness. Presumably this poor excuse for a movie was a shameless attempt to cash in on the success of the TV series. I would not recommend it, even to fans of the TV series. And if you haven't seen the TV series you won't understand any of it - something that might not bother Lynch fans!