Hotel
OscarÂ(r) nominee* Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) delivers a deliciously disturbing, erotically charged thriller fueled by standout performances from his all-star cast: Saffron Burrows, Salma Hayek, Rhys Ifans, Lucy Liu, Burt Reynolds and David Schwimmer!A slick Hollywood film crew has just descended upon a mysterious, crumbling Venetian hotel to create a cinematic masterpiece. But, unbeknownst to them, there are malevolent forces at work in the hotel, and soon the production is beset by a se
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Only If You Love Venice…,
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and “The Loss of Sexual Innocence”. Even though I browsed past the Amazon reviews and had seen that the movie was not well liked, I decided to risk it and watch it anyway. This is a bad movie. It’s that simple…It is truly a piece of s*it. I can’t say there is a good thing about it. And it’s not just the cinematography that’s bothersome. In fact, it was good of Figgis to use this kind of cinematography…Because, believe me. A movie like this would’ve been ten times worse had it been in your regular, run-of-the-mill cinematography. Now, even though I’ve just completely blasted this movie; I’m giving it two stars just because, for a while, it was fascinating. I hated the story, but my eyes were glued to the screen for most of it. But, the story is just so stupid, half the time doesn’t make any sense. It’s pretty much a complete waste of actors talents. The movie’s cast is amazing though, it features John Malkovich, David Schwimmer, Rhys Ifans, Lucy Liu, Salma Hayek, Danny Huston, Jason Isaacs, and Burt Reynolds. Much of the dialogue is improvised (which isn’t obvious, oddly enough), the actors are waering little to no makeup, and well…How the hell do you even explain this kind of movie? I guess if you were to give it a synopsis, it would be: A group of filmmakers ascend upon an old hotel in Venice, Italy and begin shooting a movie. Not long after, the director (Ifans) is shot and his best friend (Schwimmer) takes on the directing duites. The movie they’re making is an adaptation of the play “The Duchess of Malfi” and at times, we spend five minutes or more just watching scenes from this. Then people are suddenly finding dead body parts in the meat cellar of the hotel. But does anything come of these findings? No. Could they have cut these scenes and still had a bad movie? Yes. The more I watch movies like this, the more I wonder if critics are paid to steer their views toward something. I mean, Roger Ebert seemed to like this movie; but he doesn’t like a movie like “Serving Sara” or something. Trust me, folks. This movie should never have been made, will leave no mark upon society or film (except it will leave a nasty mark, on Mike Figgis’ previously really good resume’), and I hope Figgis will stick to what he’s good at. Good movies, with regular cinematography, that get lots of Oscar nominations.
GRADE: D-
SHOULD BE: Z…But seriously, F-
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|Think WAY outside the box for this one,
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