Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me opens up with credits behind television static. As the credits finish, the camera pulls back. An axe smashes through the TV and a woman screams. It's a rare case of obvious symbolism from a director well known for confusing and sometimes irritating imagery.

Cut to the body of Teresa Banks. She's dead, wrapped in plastic. Floating in some body of water. The first true line of dialogue in this film is delivered by its…

The idea to take a creatively stalled and uninteresting series which somehow managed four films with the world's most boring characters and a plot that collectively amount to "hey, cars are cool, aren't they?" and change that into an exciting, intriguing, fast-paced heist series that uses its obsession with cars to its advantage was probably the greatest stroke of genius of 2011.

The characters don't get much development, but did you expect/want them to? Justin Lin and crew know where…