I'm not exactly sure what compelled me to finish watching this so-called "black comedy," which is a little heavy on the black and far too light on the comedy.
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03/06/08
Niagara Motel (2005)
38 %
Reviews Counted: 13 Fresh: 5 Rotten:8 Average Rating: 5.1/10
Synopsis: In Niagara Motel, several struggling individuals cross paths at a low-rent motel in the tourist Mecca of Niagara Falls. They are not tourists and they are all, for various reasons, at crisis points in their lives. The main characters are: a knockout waitress being recruited to star in low... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Anna Friel, Catherine Fitch, Craig Ferguson, Wendy Crewson, Caroline Dhavernas
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a tragicomic ensemble piece about people on the edge and love on the rocks.
08/02/07
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06/24/06
An unfunny ensemble that completely wastes the talent gathered and the material it's based on.
03/29/06
A blue chip cast is wasted in the painfully unfunny ensemble comedy Niagara Motel, about a gaggle of self-absorbed nitwits struggling to make ends meet on the Canadian side of the tourist mecca.
03/24/06
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Too many characters and so much plot that no single scenario ever develops into an absorbing drama.
03/24/06
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The lives of nine assorted down-and-outers converge in frequently funny and sometimes tragic ways, giving Yates a chance to put his own spin on a template perfected decades ago by Robert Altman and reinvigorated in recent years by P.T. Anderson.
03/24/06
An ensemble piece with spirit, vitality and a heavy dose of dark, twisted humour.
03/24/06
The actors are more or less on the same page, trying as much as possible to underplay this overheated material. But that doesn't help when the page itself is a scribbled sheet of foolscap crammed with narrative tangents and thematic jottings.
03/24/06
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Yates has given himself so many stories to tell here that his only plausible excuse for Niagara Motel's total lack of dramatic tension or laughs is a script that fails to include a solitary good line.
12/06/05
The quirky script is packed with good lines and off-the-wall moments and the stories are surprisingly moving in places.
12/06/05
Extremely watchable, even though it's a bit fragmented and unfocussed.
10/29/05
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