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Million Dollar Hotel gets a bad rap, and I can not really understand why that is. The movie sports an ensemble cast landing each actor in a complicated and interesting role. The plot surrounds a strange Hotel occupied by some of the more unique minds writers could think of. The vast majority of the inhabitants are mentally challenged, so the Hotel has a sort of Asylum feel to it. Everything is going just-as-the-day-before-normal until one of the tenants dies. What would normally would have been just another death in the dregs of the city expands to include the federal government (Mel Gibson) as it is discovered that the boy was the son of a prominent man. The movie itself focuses on the life of one inhabitant. Jeremy Davies does an exceptional job playing Tom Tom - a character more naive and lost than anything else. There's a hint of mental illness and the movie has an air of drug culture. Performances by Milla Jovavich and Davies are fantastic, drawing you into the lives of the two characters. Nothing in the movie feels quite right, which is one of its charms. The film really needs to be taken in the atmosphere of analogy and fantasy as there are a number of unrealistic elements the audience will have to accept or get over. Million Dollar Hotel captures the fantasy of childhood just before finding out that being a grown-up is really paradise lost. Lastly, Gibson plays a role, but does not significantly effect the script. It felt to me as a sort of extended cameo. Gibson represents an inexorable plot, or perhaps the reality of destiny or fate. In the end he does not take away from the movie because of his stardom. His larger than the role feel fits well with the character's effect on the rest of the characters in this hotel at the end of forever.Read full review
When this was a new release, my husband and I saw it in the video store, and the helpful clerk told us not to rent it. We went in a couple weeks later, and a second clerk said DON'T RENT IT! We waited, and went in a third time- there was a kid who worked there who watched every single movie that ever came out- he was a guru of all things theatrical- he said not to rent it. Well, by now, it became a joke- so I went in a fourth time- told them all that I could rent whatever I wanted to rent- they all just shook their heads. So, I took it home, and my husband looked at me as if I'd commited a crime. We sat and watched it- believe me, the only reason we sat through to the end was just to prove a point to everyone at the video store.... when it was FINALLY over, we just bowed our heads in defeat. It was the most boring, senseless waste of film we have ever seen. We wasted our money, we wasted our evening, and we became the laughingstock of the video store. When will we ever learn to listen? Take it from me- DON'T RENT IT, BUY IT, OR Think Of Watching It... Unless Of Course, Someone Paid You To Do It.Read full review
This was one of the oddest movies I have seen in a while. The performances by most of the cast were very convincing, but the storyline was a little bizarre for my liking. A lot of strange stuff here. Not something I would bother watching again.
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Jeremy Davies and Milla Jovovich deliver fantastic performances. In a dark story where you're not likely to connect with any of the characters, the director finds the human element in everyone that makes you identify with them. Beautiful cinematography, great use of music in soundtrack. A quirky, creative love story.
this movie was co-written by Bono and the soundtrack its great... atmosphere music, relax music,and the story,.. its true.! you can find LOVE even in the most unlikely places and persons... a great movie..a must have for every u2 hard core fan..