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The Million Dollar Hotel
Metascore
25 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 15
  3. Negative: 7 out of 15
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  1. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    60
    The film has an unabashed romantic tone that's matched by Wenders' usual flair for visual drama.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    50
    Conceived by U2's Bono, it's not quite as bad as it might have been. After all, its own star, Mel Gibson, has famously called this tale of destitute misfits "as boring as a dog's a——."
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    50
    Pretentious and trite.
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  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Bob Graham
    50
    Gutter romance meets metaphysical thriller.
  5. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Andy Seiler
    50
    Wenders creates an imaginative, stylized cityscape, but what's missing is the compelling story that could bring the setting to life.
  6. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    50
    So silly it's best taken ironically. But the film, much of it shot digitally, is also astonishingly beautiful.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    50
    A mellow dream of a movie that's an acquired taste. It's attractive because of the oblique way that Mr. Wenders ambles through a murder mystery that's stronger on characterization than on plot.
  8. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    40
    A fantasy, a fairy tale, but its characters and the emotions they elicit become painfully real.
  9. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Peter Rainer
    30
    He (Gibson) ramrods his way through the bugged-out hysterics as if he were appearing in a movie that actually made sense. What a brave heart.
  10. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    30
    The film isn't very good. The Million Dollar Hotel is an uneasy melding of Hollywood shtick and art-house sensibilities.
  11. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    25
    If any of these characters were half as resonant as Wenders appears to think they are, the film might have seemed charming instead of merely stranded.
  12. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Charles Taylor
    10
    There's a vacancy in The Million Dollar Hotel, and it's between Wim Wenders' ears.
  13. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    10
    How this hopelessly muddled and tedious dirge got released -- unless it was through the clout of Mel Gibson, who's grafted on as an FBI agent in a neck brace, with no discernible connection to the action -- is the real mystery.
  14. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    10
    The script that Nicholas Klein has conjured from Bono's idea is a quicksand that sucks down a solid cast.
  15. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    10
    Wenders's The Million Dollar Hotel is something of a monstrosity -- liquored self-indulgence taken to its own astral plane.
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User Score
7.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 26 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 20
  3. Negative: 3 out of 20
  1. MaximI.
    10
    I always took the phrase "Americans are stupid" as only a stereotype, but after reading the critics reviews, I see they are. Million Dollar Hotel is an amazing movie. It has soul, an amaizing story. After the movie you find yourself in heavy shock, you feel your eyes were opened, you feel that that different kind of people exists, you feel your soul opened up but only after an arrow hit it. It's amaizing. This movie is the only American movie, and I have seen alot, together with Man On the Moon, that i can call a real, good movie. But the American critics? They proved they are so stupid. They didn't like the movie, it's there right. But their arguments! My god, have you read their arguments? "This movie has no explotions". You want explotions? Join Al-Queida. "You understand the point only in the end". Thats the whole beauty!!! Thats what makes it so damn smart. For the whole movie you are glewed to the screen, as if you are in some magic world, a sick, magic world. You understand it only in the end, and the moment you understand it you feel like you are hit in the face by cold whater. Shure you are to smart for that! You need to know right at start who is the bad guy, who is the good guy, and let the bombing start. This movie is for people people with a soul, and with a mind. It's an LA movie so after I have seen it I thought: "How can Americans be stupid, when they make such Amazing movies? Now I know Bono wrote it, but it was shot as an American movie", and then I read the critics, and back to reality. After reading the critics reviews here, i finaly understood what empty people means.… Full Review »
  2. GinoM.
    3
    Like watching two corporate executives talk jibberish to each other while switchin out their slacks for women's jeans and axe affect gel for flat iron hair with blonde highlights on the 71st floor of the US Bank Building for no apparent reason at all. It's so seedy.....I'm soooooo intrigued by these people that obvious embody Downtown Los Angeles. Obviously.… Full Review »
  3. IoannisP.
    9
    This may be a bit slow for some, but it has many qualities including great ating and direction.
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