Niagara Motel (2005)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:5
Rotten:8
Average Rating:5.1/10
Genre: Dramas
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... [More]
Starring: Anna Friel, Catherine Fitch, Craig Ferguson, Wendy Crewson
Reviews for Niagara Motel
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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. Full Review |
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a tragicomic ensemble piece about people on the edge and love on the rocks. Full Review |
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2/5 |
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An unfunny ensemble that completely wastes the talent gathered and the material it's based on. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
...an overly quirky yet strangely compelling drama... Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Too many characters and so much plot that no single scenario ever develops into an absorbing drama. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
An ensemble piece with spirit, vitality and a heavy dose of dark, twisted humour. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The quirky script is packed with good lines and off-the-wall moments and the stories are surprisingly moving in places. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
Extremely watchable, even though it's a bit fragmented and unfocussed. Full Review |
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