Hotel

Year: 2001

Grade: F+

Country: UK

Director: Figgis

Review

i have a theory that there are record store customers who want to feel important because of the money they spend, and there are record store customers who want to feel important because pretentious record store clerks (like those in high fidelity) actually accept them, which makes them cool by proxy. i think that the same dynamic applies to films as well, and this is one of those films. i don’t want to spend much time on this film because that would give it more benefit than i think it deserves, but suffice it to say that this is the equivalent of concept albums that explore the sound of winter by recording the sounds of falling snow or some such crap. figgis did a good job with leaving las vegas, but this one, though ambitious in a way, is a complete dud.