The Million Dollar Hotel
Everyone has something to hide.
In a Place Where Danger Checks In...
FBI Agent Skinner (Mel Gibson) has been brought in to solve his most bizarre case yet. In a downtown fleabag hotel, the son of a billionaire media mogul (Tim Roth) has mysteriously died. Now, Skinner must find the murderer among the hotel's guests, uncovering a web of deception which runs deeper than he ever thought imaginable... and protects the guilty from justice.
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Good film - Mano
I am going through Wenders' films. I liked this one for its character development. The sub strata of society filled with mentally ill and its portrayal of normalcy as opposed to the so called normal people behaving in a cold manner. The normal people are keen to get some "justice" quickly and swiftly. But in the end the story has some nice twists and turns and proves to be almost a thriller!
Nice acting and cinematography a hallmark of Wenders' movies.
Nice to see good old Mel Gibson who really shows thta indeed he was a versatile actor. Sad to see him deteirorate in the recent times. Hope he recovers soon and starts to rediscover his talents.
I recommend this.The Million Dollar Invitation - Coco
WW has had a hard slog of it since Wings of Desire. Nobody'll give the sentimental old coot benefit of the doubt. The Hotel, in particular, is about as popular as cement soup. His cinema (as critic Kent Jones reminds us and as the philosopher Gilles Deleuze remarked in Cinema 1: The Movement Image), has brought us closer than anybody else’s to a synthetic human-vehicular interfacing, like staring out the window of a moving car, covering the landscape with your eyes, stoned and listening to rock music, a wash of electricity bombarding your brainstem, in the desert by car or plane…on foot...under water now in the sky. Mel Gibson’s detective in Hotel, then, is a cyborg like the rest of us, his brain an organic computer like ours, his early POVs resemble those of Robocop. Windows in a city are television screens, screens within screens, and the dramas that play out there posses fission. Identities are like wireless radios, station to station, between stations, a matter of performing an electromagnetic receptivity, flipping between, never on and off. And love is narrated into being by a web of stories, we emerge clothed in neon light, our skin undamaged by contact with real flesh if we believe in it like children in Santa. This film will make you as feather-light as you wish or will make you plummet into the concrete, a cynical bag of blood and bones. Like the institutionalized characters in Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor, an obvious reference point for Hotel, we can live wounded in our symptoms and play or we can fade false into catatonic refusal. The film is horribly unsophisticated, bereft of irony, and embarrassing in its innocence. The world it depicts is heavy and callous and its art is an invitation to perish on the stock exchange. Wenders’ achievement is, as dream rises up, to invite you to rise, too, indefinitely. The kind of ignorance that stays both blissful and ethical and immaculate too if you let it. You hate this film and shall have no peace on this earth!"As Boring As a Dog's ***" - AttillaTheHun
Mel Gibson (as reported in the Rolling Stone review) said it best: "As boring as a dog's ass."
Forget about watching the movie. Just watch the interviews with Wenders, Bono, et al. With the right kind of stimulants, you'll be laughing until it hurts. These people have no sense of irony.
Wenders has made 3 good films in a career of 20. He should probably stop.
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Good film - Mano
I am going through Wenders' films. I liked this one for its character development. The sub strata of society filled with mentally ill and its portrayal of normalcy as opposed to the so called normal people behaving in a cold manner. The normal people are keen ...The Million Dollar Invitation - Coco
WW has had a hard slog of it since Wings of Desire. Nobody'll give the sentimental old coot benefit of the doubt. The Hotel, in particular, is about as popular as cement soup. His cinema (as critic Kent Jones reminds us and as the philosopher Gilles Deleuze ..."As Boring As a Dog's ***" - AttillaTheHun
Mel Gibson (as reported in the Rolling Stone review) said it best: "As boring as a dog's ass."
Forget about watching the movie. Just watch the interviews with Wenders, Bono, et al. With the right kind of stimulants, you'll be laughing until it hurts. ...