28 Hotel Rooms (2012)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 14
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 8
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Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 4
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Unfolding as a collage of moments-some sexy, some innocent, some profound, some silly-28 HOTEL ROOMS is an intimate portrait of an affair in which two people wrestle with the intoxication of sex and the confusion of loving more than one person.(c) Oscilloscope
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All Critics (14) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (8)
"28 Hotel Rooms" slowly expires for lack of air.
Top CriticA chamber piece rooted in semi-improvisation.
While Messina and Ireland are fine company, writer-director Matt Ross' conceit tires you out.
In eliminating all the filler, it ends up feeling like nothing but.
Dismaying affectations aside-the characters go needlessly unnamed-the movie articulates the enduring allure of a love defined, and heightened, by restrictions.
The intimate romantic drama "28 Hotel Rooms" should prove a fine calling card for its first-time writer-director, Matt Ross.
... one of the movie's points is that when you are cocooned with your lover, intoxicated and infatuated, you don't care much about the rest of the world
The movie's conceit grows a bit stale even with a short running time, and ultimately the whole thing feels more like an acting workshop than a full-fledged human story.
It's an intriguing and well-acted, if gimmicky and repetitive, cinematic experiment that nevertheless feels emotionally detached.
Not sexy, profound or memorable despite heartfelt performances by Chris Messina and Marin Ireland. It's ultimately an exhausting and frustrating affair.
We're supposed to take their self-pity at face value, an impression that's emphasized by a grinding monotonous humorlessness.
A smart, incisive examination of how every love affair eventually comes with strings attached.
In its own small way, in documenting two people who want to be together but are too scared to commit, Twenty-Eight Hotel Rooms is masterful.
Audience Reviews for 28 Hotel Rooms
What I like most about the film is the sharp focus on the room(s) and particularly the bed, the supposedly neutral but freighted with significance mental and physical space in which the heaven and hell of being humans together is played out in truly intimate detail. It could well have been a one-note film school sketch stretched beyond it's limit, but here the room becomes a crucible for a 28 scene one act play that does exactly what we (should) want all theatre to do: show us who we are.
I will agree though that the ending could have been stronger, or at least more consistent with the rest of the performance. It felt like something tacked on to satisfy a studio exec, a hint of a moral or happy ending. I'd rather just be left not knowing. But this is a film that should be seen.
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Foreign Titles
- 28 Hotel Rooms (DE)
- 28 Hotel Rooms (UK)
