New Rose Hotel (1998)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 16
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 13
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Critic Reviews: 2
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Abel Ferrara directed this erotic thriller adapted by Ferrara and Christ Zois from a short story by science fiction author William Gibson (in his Burning Chrome collection). Global corporations rule the world, and corporate raider Fox (Christopher Walken) and his deputy X (Willem Dafoe) could pocket $100 million if they can get top scientist Hiroshi (Yoshitaka Amano) to defect from one corporation to another. Fox offers singer Sandii (Asia Argento) $1 million to seduce Hiroshi away from his
Oct 1, 1999 Limited
Dec 7, 1999
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Asia Argento
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Yoshitaka Amano
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Annabella Sciorra
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Gretchen Mol
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All Critics (19) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (13) | DVD (4)
Uh, no.
Masterfully constructed and yet eventually rather wearisome.
One wonders what this cast could have done had they been given some real material to work with.
A big mess.
A major misfire from one of my favorite directors.
The movie works, thanks to Walken's and DaFoe's hardcore performances.
Decadence rules the day for Abel Ferrara's offbeat soft porn look at how the modern world has come up with a new criminal type -- the international corporate raider.
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Unlike Alphaville, I never get the flickering sense that this world, jerryrigging pieces of the present to represent the future, is a real place. Instead, this move plays like vignettes in an off-Broadway play about the future, with monitors showing tinted surveillance footage next to the stage.
Walken creates a real, whole character out of verbal pirouettes around cliches; Dafoe is more than believable in the mute, physical acting required by a sustained flashback montage; and Argento is more of an underwritten cipher than she is mysterious. Her part in the con, as a surefire seductress, we have to take on faith. With the elliptical editing and blacked-out backgrounds, they could stuff anything in the plot, but they don't. The fact that the movie stays together, as does Walken and Dafoe's goldminers' pact, keeps things intriguing enough. We want to know exactly how everybody is going to commit suicide by Fate.