Danny Blankenship If you know anything about the works of David Lynch you know that it's different often dark and it challenges the mind as the world is never what it seems to be. With this 1990 work "Wild at Heart" it shows just how dark and different life can be for some like it's a twist and parody a dark like "Wizard of Oz" journey like film!This film is very violent and erotic with intimate and wild raw sex scenes as it's a ride thru darkness and uncertainty. The story has Lula(Laura Dern) who loves and only wants to be with her ex-con boyfriend Sailor(Nick Cage) no matter how many times danger and death tries to get them. So both hit the road to find happiness only they find a wicked and cruel underworld awaits them on their road of journey.This film proves life is no fairy tale as it's a dark and wild wicked madness journey for many this movie is also supported well by Willem Dafoe, Harry Dean Stanton, Isabella Rossellini and many others overall it's a pretty good cult classic film to watch.

aleistad-1 Perhaps I'd react differently if I saw this movie in the 90s, but I doubt it. Like me now, even back then this was late to the party, so to speak. Sort of from the times before movies reached a certain quality - as if it's attraction enough that it IS a movie.I like quirky movies, I like dark movies, I like layered movies, even the odd "artsy" movie. This was none of that, in spite of being touted by many to be so. I found it tedious, unfunny and shallow. It could've had some B-movie'ish charm if just about everything in it was of a less pretentious "let's be quirky cool" - but, alas it wasn't.I'm trying to think of some positives, but I'm coming up empty. It's not even a "style over substance" candidate, as both aspects are equally dreary. Unless you're a Lynch-fan-for-the-sake-of it, you might as well skip it.I'll give it two stars since it was shot in colours and has sound.

TonyMontana96 (Originally reviewed: 23/03/2017) David Lynch's Wild at Heart could have been something, if it weren't so disgusting and purely stupid. The film opens with a confrontation between Cage and an African American man with a knife, during this scene Cage beats him up and smashes his head of the floor until his brains are clearly seen, it's not only violent, but unnecessary, sadistic and not as cool as Lynch thinks, because straight after Cage lights a cigarette and does a sort of 'look at me pose' which came off as extremely annoying and pathetic. Then the picture gets slightly better until it grew tedious, but also vile, with its lack of humanity; some people may find this picture outrageously funny, I find it outrageously awful and distasteful, because there's a lot of ugliness and a nonsensical story that includes character's that look like they should have been in the 1980's The Howling; which is no compliment if you know the film. Another observation I made was the soundtrack, it's just ultimately bland, noisy or forgettable. The acting is fairly bland, Cage play's an over the top, slightly boring, unlikeable character, and his girlfriend played by Laura Dern has all the talent of a pole dancer, she looks good but is really commanding with she opens her mouth. Other bad performances include Diane Ladd, as Lulu's mother, she's overdramatic and fairly awful, as well as William Dafoe who plays a creepy, low life loser who's simply disgusting, and even starts massaging Lulu's breasts while Cage is away; maybe this seemed like a good idea at the time for Lynch, but watching it, I didn't see why this scene had any business being in the picture; it was plain and simple distasteful. There's a lot of sex, a lot of blood and a lot of swearing but without interesting character's and some sort of competent story, the film just falls apart, and if it hadn't have been for Harry Dean Stanton's well-grounded supporting performance as Diane Ladd's character's partner, the picture would have gone down as the worst thing Nicolas Cage has ever been in, and that's saying something, when you have seen some of his modern outings. The dialogue and writing are utter garbage, here's a bit of dialogue that Lynch thinks passes as adequate "can I p**s on your head, I don't mean your head I mean the toilet head", and it gets worse there's randomness all over the place, three ugly fat girls take their clothes off walking around, (I could have hurled), there's a character who speaks with a helium type voice in a bar, I guess for intended humour, it wasn't funny, and there's a terrible sequence where one of these supernatural freaks does some of the worst acting I've ever seen by shouting "F**k me Reggie" a dozen times at the top of her voice while about to shoot someone; it makes little to no sense, just like the story which has these monster undertones and other themes, but never decides what film it actually wants to be, leaving an angel to come down and let Cage know he should be with Lulu after walking away and getting beat up by thugs later on, I mean come on, it's allegedly not a sci-fi film, but do they expect me to believe this trash is what passes for an ending in an alleged 'crime drama', something I could not fathom; which reminds me of some embarrassing moments where Lynch thinks it's a musical and let's Cage sing, and the second time is even more embarrassing because they end the picture with some dumb sing-song, which had me thinking really?. There's even technical problems with some painfully aggravating screeching in the background towards the 1 hour mark and appallingly unbelievable moments where Cage and Dern pull up at a crash, See that two people are dead, and see the third suffering from blood loss, and try and clam her until she start's going berserk over a credit card saying, I can't find my credit card or something like that, not bothered that she could die at any minute, the characters are unlikeable, stupid and idiots. Overall I hated this picture, it's ugly, sadistic and made me feel uneasy, it's narrative is an incoherent jumble and the acting for the most part sucks; Lynch may have thought his picture was funny, but in fact, I didn't, I found it repulsive and a real piece of absolute garbage.

christopher-underwood Its not perfect and its barely one of Lynch's best but it is still a very good movie and a joy, if a rather scary one, to watch. Laura Dern, apparently foregoing her non nudity clause, puts in a very brave performance, possibly her best. Nicolas Cage, famously variable is spot on in this all the way through. There may be doubts during the narrative as to whether this is intended to be a love story or a hate story but Cage persuades from start to finish with an massive performance. Convincing as the tough, ruthless, almost psychotic, gentle romantic guy. Probably the second most scary person in this is Laura Derry's mother Diane Ladd playing her mother, which is pretty scary in itself but this gets worse and worse. And the award for the most scary person of all goes to - Willem Defoe, but then isn't he always and he finds new ways to be so. Some great scenes, maybe a little overlong, but then Lynch does so love those endless highways.