The phrase "a bewildering mess" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation, object, or concept that is confusing or chaotic.
Example: "After the meeting, I was left with a bewildering mess of ideas that I couldn't make sense of."
Alternatives: "a confusing jumble" or "a perplexing chaos".
Dr. Robert S. Daum, a panel member and pediatrician from the University of Chicago Medical Center, described pediatric cough and cold medicines as "a bewildering mess of complicated ingredients and combinations that do and don't make sense".
The first 20 minutes in particular were a bewildering mess of activity, with a heist at Gibson HQ, a tense stand-off between killer and detective (or should that be killer and killer?) and one deeply unpleasant moment involving a broken wine bottle and a man's cheek.
The thankfully redesigned central menu system (if you ask nicely, the NHS is still offering counselling to those traumatised by the bewildering mess that was GT5's counterpart) offers the typical selection of themed race meetings but at given points you're given access to a roster of side activities.
"Drowning Crow," which is directed by Marion McClinton, is a bewildering, inert mess.
An Asia minus India and China is perhaps only wider if you live in the bits in between.Also, as Mr Tay concedes, Asian "regionalism" is "a mess", a bewildering plethora of ineffectual talking-shops that only keep going by refusing to tackle head-on any of the potential conflicts they are designed to defuse.
This is a bewildering experience.
A bewildering end to fabulous evening.
It's a bewildering scale of calamity.
For Cornelis, it is a bewildering threat.
All this for a bewildering smudge?
Folded biomolecules display a bewildering structural complexity and diversity.
