Oof, Naked Lunch is not a good movie. I was looking forward to it, as it stars Peter Weller and is written/directed by David Cronenberg, but it's a poor hodgepodge of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (either the book or the movie), Clive Barker (Hellraiser), John Carpenter's "In the Mouth of Madness" (credit to H.P. Lovecraft) and David Lynch (in general) that doesn't amount to anything. It has some decent ideas, but the narrative is incoherent, the characters are unrelatable and worst of all - the movie is boring.
I had a feeling the movie would be an early 90s clunker when Howard Shore's crazy jazz soundtrack kicked in... at least the puppetry is decent?
Not sure there's anything worth recommending in this one, much to my disappointment. Actually, Roy Scheider is pretty awesome, but almost criminally underutilized.
