The Million Dollar Hotel Reviews
Common Sense Media
Self-indulgent and boring; mature teens only.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Top CriticAudiences partial to this rather rarefied material will find plenty to enjoy in the technically polished production, but those not on Wenders' wavelength will be seriously alienated.
Something of a monstrosity -- liquored self-indulgence taken to its own astral plane.
Pretentious, indulgent, tiresome exercise in star-strutting and seediness.
The script that Nicholas Klein has conjured from Bono's idea is a quicksand that sucks down a solid cast.
| Original Score: 0.5/5
If you're looking for a defining Wenders image, try starting with the gloomy angels in overcoats in Wings Of Desire.
Matinee Magazine
The kind of kitchen sink included disaster that Wenders has demonstrated he will make more often than not.
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| Original Score: short
Compuserve
Listening to these people prattle on and watching the St. Vitus-Dance antics of Jeremy Davies in the role of Tom-Tom is an exericise in tedium.
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| Original Score: 6/10
UK Critic
We have to spend time with a plethora of wretched cretins, who get to be annoying very quickly.
| Original Score: 4/10
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Ultimately falls flat in most categories except that of arty pretension.
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| Original Score: 4/10
Popcorn
Vacuous, tedious, pretentious and featuring some uniformly atrocious acting.
Even alternative cinema god, Wenders, and rock's last great savior, Bono, are doing little more than recycling the material and cardboard people that Hollywood machinery has assigned as the harmless, loveable freaks.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Too long, the willful eccentricity is grating and the hackneyed moral -- real life is better than TV -- is so silly it's best taken ironically.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Empire Magazine
A plodding, self-indulgent exercise in pomposity over substance.
Los Angeles Daily News
Take the last exit off the highway to art movie hell, and you'll probably have to stay at The Million Dollar Hotel.
Pretentious and trite in a way that you can get away with in a rock song or a music video, but that becomes almost unbearably irritating in a full-length feature.
