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The Million Dollar Hotel (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 41
Fresh: 10
Rotten:31
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Consensus: Critics say the weirdness of The Million Dollar Hotel is more grating and pretentious than interesting. Also, it takes too long to get to the conclusion.
Theatrical Release:Feb 2, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: Wim Wenders's THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL is a well-filmed movie set in a majestic, dilapidated hotel on the outskirts of Hollywood. The opener shows Tom Tom (Jeremy Davies), the eccentric, slightly... Wim Wenders's THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL is a well-filmed movie set in a majestic, dilapidated hotel on the outskirts of Hollywood. The opener shows Tom Tom (Jeremy Davies), the eccentric, slightly retarded, skateboard-riding narrator, wandering in slow motion at daybreak on the roof of the hotel, as a hypnotic U2 song completes the moment. The film consists of many of these near-perfect fantasy capsules, strung together by a vague plot--that Agent Skinner (Mel Gibson), a clownish detective, is investigating the supposed murder of an artist named Izzy who was living at the hotel, and who is the son of a millionaire. What Skinner learns immediately is that most of the hotel's residents are, like Tom Tom, mentally disabled and basically harmless. Geronimo (Jimmy Smits) is one of the few hotel occupants who seems capable of committing such a crime, but even he is more entertaining than threatening. Through Skinner's observation of his subjects, viewers witness some delectably sweet events, such as the magical scene in which Tom Tom meets his true love, Eloise (Milla Jovovich), in the stairwell of the hotel. Both the actors and the sets of THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL facilitate stunning photography that looks as if it were ripped from the pages of Vogue. The script, based on an idea by Bono, and the score by U2, complete this fashionable picture. [More]
Starring: Mel Gibson, Milla Jovovich, Jeremy Davies, Jimmy Smits
Starring: Mel Gibson, Milla Jovovich, Jeremy Davies, Jimmy Smits, Bud Cort, Peter Stormare, Amanda Plummer, Gloria Stuart
Director: Wim Wenders
Director: Wim Wenders
Screenwriter: Nicholas Klein
Producer: Wim Wenders, Deepak Nayar, Bruce Davey, Bono, Nicholas Klein
Composer: Bono, Daniel Lanois
Studio: Icon Entertainment
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Reviews for The Million Dollar Hotel
Les amateurs de films se basant avant tout sur le développement d'ambiances langoureuses seront conquis d'avance.
A delicate, immensely moving elegy about jewels in the trash, love amidst suffering, fraternity in poverty.
The kind of kitchen sink included disaster that Wenders has demonstrated he will make more often than not.
It plays like a sop thrown down by a genius who imagines his every pensée is both precious and engagingly satirical.
Doesn't live up to its name, nor to the promise of big-name stars like Gibson, Bono or Jovovich.
If you're tired of feeling numb, The Million Dollar Hotel is a great place to check into for a couple of hours.
It is probably asking too much of this phantasmagoria that it make sense.
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