Hotel details
| Format: | 18 DVD |
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| Starring: | Rhys Ifans, Max Beesley, Lucy Liu, Mia Maestro, Saffron Burrows, Burt Reynolds, David Schwimmer, Salma Hayek |
| Director: | Mike Figgis |
| Genre: | Drama - Plays/Performance |
| Name | Discs | |
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Hotel |
18 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 52 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 07 Apr 2008 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Tell him he's no Godard
By a customer from London , 29 Mar 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
Mike Figgis seems intent on becoming the godard of british cinema. Although where Godard was inventive and differnet, Figgis simply overuses split screen devices and inserts a convoluted and incoherent plot.
Trying to hard to be cerebral but just looking a mess.
Did not manage to reach the end in normal viewing and fast forwarded most of it, this film disapearing up its own backside at about 5 minutes and simply stayed there for 2 hours.
Do not torture yourself with the DVD.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(15)hotel
By TREV (222 reviews) from Surbiton , 01 Sep 2008boring zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz .
gave up . nothing going for it at all .
a pile of sh$t- Was this review helpful to you?
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Watch for the flashes of brilliance.
By themustgethere (25 reviews) from London , 11 Sep 2007Yes I agree two thirds of this film are very very self-indulgent and messy, (low-points being pretty much the whole 'Duchess of Malfi' fiasco, and the Lucy Liu / Salma Hayek cat-fight) but as a daring experiment I found plenty to stimulate. Basically when Figgis further plays with the four screen style he started in 'Timecode', he takes off, and occasionally hits something quite extraordinary - witness the fantastic Flamenco sequence.
His use of night vision is also great fun and genuinely haunting. In fact I also liked some of the more over the top scenes - check out Saffron Burrows violently rear-ending Max Beesley!
Figgis is trying to create a daring hybrid of horror, mockumentary, Hollywood satire and eroticism, which regularly crumbles under the weight of the often at-sea stars' messy improv's. The moments of real inspiration make you wish Figgis would come back to the four screen idea again and actually script something with it - he obviously has a remarkable visual and aural sense which ignites into alchemy in 'The Loss of Sexual Innocense' and 'Leaving Las Vegas', but is so often thrown away here - hence so many hostile reviews.
If you want a conventionally satisfying movie, go elsewhere - if you are interested in where cinema could be going as a true storytelling medium, it's worth wading throught the dross for the gold.- Was this review helpful to you?
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A puzzling masterpiece
By Dorothea from London , 19 Feb 2007Yes it is odd and at times perplexing but who wrote the rules to say that every moment in a film must be explained and straightforward? It is compelling, imaginative and challenging. I would recommend it to anyone who favours David Lynch over Steven Spielberg...- Was this review helpful to you?
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Awful beyond compare
By a customer from Gateshead, Tyne and Wear , 09 Dec 2006The heading says it all really - This is the closest I've ever been to switching a film off before the end. Dreary, plotless, directionless, drivel!- Was this review helpful to you?
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I tried hard
By a customer from London , 09 Jan 2006I gave it a good go but had to admit defeat after 15 minutes. There are some amusing scences but mostly it drags on in a strange manner. I wouldn't bother if I were you.- Was this review helpful to you?
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