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Hotel (2001)

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Average Rating: 4.5/10
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Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 7

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Following up on his innovative work Timecode, which featured four stories being told in real time simultaneously, Mike Figgis returns to a modified form of his technique in this film about the tourists, the prostitutes, the tour guides, a killer, and a film crew who frequent the Hungarian Palace Hotel in Venice, Italy. A corrupt Eastern European politician and his moll are visiting the city to complete a shady business deal while Sophie is a high-priced call girl who makes an office in one of

R, 1 hr. 49 min.

Drama, Horror

Directed By: Mike Figgis

Written By: Mike Figgis

In Theaters: Jul 25, 2003 Wide

On DVD: Jul 26, 2005

Innovation Film Group

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Critic Reviews for Hotel

All Critics (33) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (16) | DVD (4)

Wears out its welcome pretty fast.

October 3, 2003 Comment

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

Pretentious avant-garde comedy.

September 26, 2003 Comment

John Monaghan

Detroit Free Press

Top Critic

A movie that works in no conventional sense, and succeeds in several unconventional ones.

September 26, 2003 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

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Pretensions permeate Hotel, which, as a movie about movies, is the cinematic equivalent of a humor column in The Hollywood Reporter.

September 25, 2003 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune

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Robert K. Elder

Chicago Tribune

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It's a love-it-or- hate-it proposition.

July 31, 2003 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger

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Bob Campbell

Newark Star-Ledger

Top Critic

If you came across Hotel playing on monitors in a museum of contemporary art it would grab your attention for a while, but as a movie, it's too pretentious, too confusing and just too much.

July 28, 2003 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper

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Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

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A crystal-clear example of what happens when actors and filmmakers congregate with too much time on their hands.

August 7, 2005 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com

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Scott Weinberg

DVDTalk.com

Are you trying to tell me that Salma Hayek actually understood this script and I did not?

August 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

it's through its anarchic, try-anything chutzpah that this bizarrely erotic satire succeeds and entertains

September 30, 2004 Comment

Jay Antani

Los Angeles Alternative Source: Los Angeles Alternative

A train wreck of a film whose chaotic, partly improvised story and too-tricky mix of film stocks, image sizes, split-screen effects and color/B&W footage overwhelm some phenomenally beautiful sequences and a memorable performance by Saffron Burroughs.

July 25, 2003 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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Maitland McDonagh

TV Guide's Movie Guide

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Odd film this. Odd and pretentious. I quite like odd films but not pretentious ones. It has an interesting cast and is an interesting experiment but Mike Figgis really needs to put his hands up and own up to this being a terrible mistake. He?s a great director though so I?ll forgive him but for anyone else, that would be it!

September 29, 2009

Anthony Lawrie

Super Reviewer

With "Hotel", director Mike Figgis cuts down on some of the same techniques he used in his previous experimental film, "Time Code", like multiple images and filming in real time(which works better in a thriller like "24", anyway). This time he comes up with something approaching a lucid narrative. The movie is about

June 2, 2006