Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

As Good As It Gets

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Boxing Helena is a poor made film that deserves all the critics that has been send to its credit, but its a decent debut by a 25th young Jennifer Lynch, specially if you consider she starts her career as film director and screen writer as someone who has explore fetichism and depravation on human relations and has achieved at least one masterpiece of suspense and horror on his 2012 film Chained, an impressive low budget film on bondage and crime.However, this is an acceptable debut on a very cliché story on which male voyeurism and fetichism developes not so bad, but not to make this a memorable film, except by the very kitsch use of Sadness by Enigma, and Woman in chains, by Tears for fears, to ilustrate the erotic desire of the male character of the film. This piece of industrial music-garbage make the highest point in the film and remember the crappy musical videos from the eighties that flooded TV screens back in the day, and some usual classical music to add better atmospheric mood than what msrs. Lynch useless tryes to build on tape, who tries to emulate his father, David, whom she has worked on Blue Velvet (1986), making some explorations on themes look alike his.The film is, in my opinion, a good first step of mrs. Lynch trying to make her way, and shows some good details that will be more professionally build up in future films. In that sense I think this is a film that deserves a better rating among movie lovers, and that's why I rate with a six, because its up average films of this type. More in addition to her credit is that she is 25 years old at the time she is filming her first movie, while her female star, Sherilyn Fenn, has 28.

An awkwardly made Freudian tale with Julian Sands as a surgeon obsessed with good time girl Sherilyn Fenn. Sands has serious mommy issues and when Fenn rejects him, he amputates her legs and arms until she inexplicably comes around. Stupidity rules with this lousy movie and the high gloss cinematography & constantly moving camera (it's directed by novice Jennifer Lynch) adds little. What could have been a demented version of LAST TANGO IN Paris as interpreted by Tod Browning is instead merely a silly melodrama. Despite the colorful cast (which also includes Bill Paxton, Kurtwood Smith & Art Garfunkel), it's pretty dull stuff. Sands is supposed to be demented but really just comes across as super fussy. Fenn is suitably callous for most of the film but then she too is done in by this empty-headed claptrap.

When I saw Boxing Helena, I was young but pretty jaded to motion pictures. I was in a for the shock and ride of my life. Now that I read it was directed by David Lynch's daughter, it doesn't surprise me. I wont belabor the plot or details of the movie, but I will say that as a young man who was pursuing and dating lots of women, this movie really made me think about the vulnerability of even super attractive women, and about what happens when men put no constraints on their desire to chase or own a woman. The fact that it delivered that message in a totally original and effective fashion makes it a top-shelf film in my mind.I will say that I told a few women I thought it was a great film and they were disgusted by it. Too many people took this film far too literally, even though it wasn't literal even within the plot. I actually think it assaults our construction of goddesses in the media at such a root foundation that it's actually a very insurgent, anti-establishment film. It really attacks a materialism associated with the pursuit and existence of beautiful people.It's definitely a thinker's picture. It's a perfect use of film, portraying something you don't want to see in real life to illustrate a point. It's also brilliantly shot and acted. Make up you own mind. There's no other film like it.

Jennifer Chambers Lynch's 'Boxing Helena' feels like an outdated, insipid, almost soft-core (and a bad one at that) movie. In spite of having a supposedly 'disturbing' theme (which didn't effect me at all), the film is incredibly boring. The awful background score reminds one of the 80's B-grade erotic thriller (even the makeup and clothes look that way). Cinematography is flat (At least Lynch could have learned something from her dad).The characters are like cardboard cutouts. Sherilyn Fenn is very beautiful but her acting here is not impressive mostly because of the awful writing. Julian Sands is atrocious. No wonder he's never offered a decent role. Lynch's 'Boxing Helena' tries to be a noir style erotic thriller but it merely ends up being a pretentious piece of garbage. Some friends suggested watching the film otherwise I perhaps never would have given this one a chance (not that I blame them or anything).