Wild, yes. But not much heart.

Perhaps the major problem is that despite Cage and Dern's best efforts, Lynch is ultimately interested only in iconography, not characters at all.

There's a spontaneous, anything-can-happen feeling to it that's the primary appeal of any road movie.

The third act has a lot to say about the power of love to cut through life’s endless noise, a fitting dynamic for a film that’s mostly parlor tricks from a man capable of better.