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Four Rooms

Four Rooms (1995)

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Average Rating: 2.9/10
Critic Reviews: 13
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Four of the most celebrated directors in the independent film community pooled their talents for this episodic comedy. Ted (Tim Roth) is the new bellboy at a beautiful but decaying luxury hotel; he is not having a good time of it on New Year's Eve, his first night on the job. In one room, a coven of witches are trying to summon the spirit of the goddess Diana; each of the witches must bring a different bodily fluid for their spell to work, but Eva (Ione Skye), who was supposed to bring semen,

Apr 20, 1999

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The results are mainly awful, and even Roth got saddled with a mannered part that he can't comfortably play.

March 13, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader
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Four of the hottest indie directors--Anders, Rockwell, Tarantino, and Rodrigues--miss a unique opportunity to display their idiosyncratic talents resulting in a tedious anthology in which 2 segments are inept, one barely decent, and one OK (guess whose)

December 28, 2006 Full Review Source: Variety
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They should have called this One Room and released it as a Rodriguez short.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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The less said about this career-denting fiasco, the better.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times
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Sounds better than it is.

February 13, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times
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The result is a batch of shrill, self-indulgent sketches that turn so wretched in spots you start to wonder if the filmmakers wanted them to be bad.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle
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Begins with two awful segments, which you'll want to fast-forward past to get to the third and fourth segments.

February 13, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com
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A ghastly train wreck of a movie, littered with the corpses of promising careers.

March 13, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

O episódio dirigido por Taratino, que funciona como uma grande preparação para uma excelente tirada final, é memorável. Pena que temos que assistir a uma hora de besteiras para chegar até ele.

May 30, 2006
Cinema em Cena

The final tale is a real treat; too bad you have to wade through such awfulness just to get there.

April 6, 2005
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Worth it for the Rodriguez' episode, but otherwise nothing much.

October 20, 2004
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Even Tim Roth, an otherwise dependable actor, disappoints with overacting.

April 2, 2003 Full Review
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We all have fun goofing around with our friends -- it's just that when you're four hot-hot-hot directors, you can goof around with your friends and get Miramax to release it, with predictably unimpressive results.

November 7, 2002 Full Review Source: Netflix
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The first two rooms are indeed pure crap, but the second half of the film, while not as good as the directors' separate films, makes for a funny enough comedy anyway.

September 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Montreal Film Journal
Montreal Film Journal

As a whole, Four Rooms is only diverting, and pretty mindless, but at its best it's a lot of fun.

June 5, 2002 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine
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Four Rooms never lives up to the hype and should discourage the directors from working together again.

April 17, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Scouts
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This is a gimmick movie.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Philadelphia City Paper
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Audience Reviews for Four Rooms

Note: this rating is only for the segment "The Man From Hollywood".
February 12, 2011
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Angela: Hell of a night, huh Ted?

"Twelve outrageous guests. Four scandalous requests. And one lone bellhop, in his first day on the job, who's in for the wildest New year's Eve of his life."

Four Rooms is an anthology film that features four directors, each directing a single room, while a bellboy appears in all four stories. Now this is a movie that was nearly impossible to get through. I say that because the first two rooms were so bad. Rodriguez and Tarantino clean it up a little bit, but not enough to save the movie from ultimately being a complete failure. There are a couple moments of comedy, but the rest is just terrible. 

Honeymoon Suite- The Missing Ingredient- 1/2  out of 5 

Allison Anders writes and directs the first room of this movie and it is miserable. Her story centers around a coven of witches that need some sperm. It's easily the worst thing about this movie. I don't know how Anders thought people would respond to her "idea," but it's just awful.

Room 404- The Wrong Man- 1 out of 5

Alexandre Rockwell writes and directs the second room and it is just a tad bit less miserable than the first one. In this one, Ted the Bellboy wonders into a room where a man has his wife tied up and threatens Ted with a gun. This story is all over the place. In the end, I'm not really sure what even happened. The only good thing I could say about "The Wrong Man" is that it isn't as bad as "The Missing Ingredient."

Room 309- The Misbehaviors- 3 out of 5

Robert Rodriguez writes and directs the third room and the movie finally begins to be watchable. In this one, Ted is hired to check up on two kids while their parents are out of the room. The kids don't behave as they are told and the story takes an extremely weird twist near the end. Antonio Banderas was easily the best thing about this movie though, in his short time on screen in "The Misbehaviors."

Penthouse- The Man From Hollywood- 3 out of 5

Quentin Tarantino writes and directs the fourth and final room and he keeps the movie watchable as well. In the fourth room, Ted has to keep company with a filmmaker and his entourage in the Penthouse. He soon learns that they want him to help them with a little wager they have. It all culminates in a rather fitting end to the movie. 

None of the episodes were great. Two were decent and two were absolutely horrible. As it stands, this is an extremely poor anthology. The thought was great. I loved the idea the first time I heard it. Four rooms directed by four different directors sounds good. It gives them all a chance to display their different styles. Well it didn't turn out as great as it sounded. I guess it is worth a look for Rodriguez's and Tarantino's parts, but I'd suggest skipping the first two rooms. 
July 26, 2012
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