Hotel Artemis

Name: Hotel Artemis
Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime
Released: June 8, 2018
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 58
Cast: Brian Tyree Henry, Charlie Day, Dave Bautista, Evan Jones, Jeff Goldblum

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Ascot Elite Entertainment Group | Release Date: June 8, 2018 | R

Starring: Brian Tyree Henry, Charlie Day, Dave Bautista, Evan Jones, Jeff Goldblum, Jenny Slate, Jodie Foster, Kenneth Choi, Sofia Boutella, Sterling K. Brown, Zachary Quinto

Summary: Set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, Hotel Artemis follows the Nurse (Jodie Foster), who runs a secret, members-only hospital for criminals.

Director: Drew Pearce

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 94 min

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Mick LaSalle

Jun 7, 2018

As a first-time director, Pearce manages something difficult. He creates a tone that acknowledges absurdity, but also consequences. He finds an edge that’s extreme, that’s weird, that’s satirical and that goes right to the edge of farce, and yet the movie is at all points as involving as an intense drama. Read full review

Leah Greenblatt

Jun 6, 2018

Writer-director Drew Pearce must have done something right to get a cast like this to sign on for what is essentially a loving, highly stylized homage to the kind of camp apocalyptia John Carpenter used to make; the only thing missing here is an Ernest Borgnine cameo and Kurt Russell scowling in an eye patch. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

Jun 8, 2018

While originality may not exactly be in great supply here, these familiar elements have been mixed with enough wit and style to make for some sleazy, insanely violent, and reasonably entertaining B-movie trash. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

Jun 6, 2018

The flavorful cast inhabit vividly drawn characters, and, perhaps most of all, the film exudes wall-to-wall, high-grunge atmosphere. That’s a lot of checked-off boxes, and yet the effect is efficiently wild rather than wildly involving, entertaining but not indelible. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Jun 7, 2018

Positive points to the Hotel Artemis for trying to achieve something original, and for the quality of the cast. But after that bloody boldness, the analogies and the life lessons and the moments of closure are all too predictable and familiar. Read full review

Gary Thompson

Jun 7, 2018

There’s nothing especially striking about the movie’s visual presentation – the Artemis is threadbare and creaky, a purposely anachronistic blend of the future tech and throwback furnishings. The actions is competent, the performers game. Read full review

Rex Reed

Jun 7, 2018

Moronic drivel that truly qualifies as the worst movie of the year, it sinks amateurish moviemaking aimed at audiences with no taste to an alarming new low. Read full review

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ryu9376

Nov 3, 2018

This was even better than I had anticipated. All the main characters locked you in, and Everett became my absolute favorite. You will definitely enjoy this film & identify with at least one of the characters.

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mastrude

Dec 31, 2019

I have to go with Mick Lasalle of the SF Chronicle and the Ebert site reviewer on this one. This film is quite a hoot, and watching it really improved my day. The critics who think this film is a loser are too old and need to retire. Especially Rex Reed.

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TVJerry

Jun 8, 2018

Jodie Foster plays the doctor/nurse at a secret hospital for criminals in future LA. This film is dark: the style, the subject and the outlook. Foster plays crusty and troubled, while working with a strong cast that includes Sterling K. Brown, Dave Bautista and Jeff Goldblum. The story isJodie Foster plays the doctor/nurse at a secret hospital for criminals in future LA. This film is dark: the style, the subject and the outlook. Foster plays crusty and troubled, while working with a strong cast that includes Sterling K. Brown, Dave Bautista and Jeff Goldblum. The story is primarily about her interactions with this group of mostly unlikable and often unpleasant crooks until the climax adds a violent element. Bleak and mostly mean, this drama is also original in its concept and unusual in its approach.… Expand

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Ralfbergs

Mar 8, 2019

Started quite well, interesting cast, thought the story might be interesting also the whole setting and everything. But then the excitement kinda faded and basically the second half was not as good as expected.

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NobodyYouKnow

Jul 7, 2019

Unfulfilled potential. The setup was promising: a water-starved populace demands access to water, and riots break out while a bank heist is going down. One of the thieves gets shot, and his brother takes them to an underground (figuratively) hospital that only services criminals.

Once theyUnfulfilled potential. The setup was promising: a water-starved populace demands access to water, and riots break out while a bank heist is going down. One of the thieves gets shot, and his brother takes them to an underground (figuratively) hospital that only services criminals.

Once they get to the hospital, the plot thickens, but it never gels. Unfortunately, everything is barely hinted at rather than being given the time to flesh out. The critical plot piece revolves around the nurse's son, but all we ever learn is what happened to him -- there is no emotional connection, hence little reason to care.

The movie progresses like a series of snapshots with almost no context and threads left untied. We learn that there is history, but we know nothing about it, so we aren't invested.

It's a missed opportunity that mainly gets points for style and casting and is only worth watching if you can view for free.… Expand

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Bertaut1

Aug 3, 2018

Aesthetically pleasing, but the narrative is predictable and clichéd

Hotel Artemis is a film which doesn't do a great deal wrong. However, it is also a film which doesn't do a great deal right. It just kind of hangs in mid-air, with clichéd characters acting in clichéd ways and havingAesthetically pleasing, but the narrative is predictable and clichéd

Hotel Artemis is a film which doesn't do a great deal wrong. However, it is also a film which doesn't do a great deal right. It just kind of hangs in mid-air, with clichéd characters acting in clichéd ways and having clichéd conversations. And then it ends. It's not actually about anything. It's also predictable, with precious little substance. It looks pretty though.

In 2028, riots are tearing Los Angeles apart. The film takes place primarily in the eponymous Hotel Artemis, a secret hospital for criminals in the heart of the city. The motley crew of characters, many of whom are known only by the name of the room in which they're staying, include Waikiki (Sterling K. Brown) and his brother Honolulu (Brian Tyree Henry), bank robbers who have been involved in a shootout with police; Nice (Sofia Boutella), an assassin who "only kills important people", and just so happens to be Waikiki's ex-girlfriend; and Acapulco (a spectacularly miscast Charlie Day), a weapons dealer and all round weasel. Also present are The Wolf King (Jeff Goldblum), Los Angeles's most feared gangster, who also finances the hospital, his incompetent son, Crosby (an underutilised Zachery Quinto), and Morgan (Jenny Slate), a cop injured in the riots. The hospital is run by "Nurse" (Jodie Foster), an agoraphobic alcoholic haunted by visions of her past, with porter duties handled by Everest (Dave Bautista). The hospital functions because all guests must adhere to a rigid set of rules (the first of which is "don't kill the other patients") and a strict no weapons policy.

Sounds pretty interesting doesn't it? It's not. The dialogue is awful, the narrative beats can be seen coming a mile away, and the characters are all archetypes, with only Nurse really fleshed out. There's the loud-mouth snivelling weapons dealer, the gorgeous but oh-so-deadly assassin, the criminal kingpin and his screw-up son who just wants to be like dad, the skilled bank robber who spends most of his time trying to get himself out of the trouble caused by his unreliable brother, and the tough-as-old-boots medical professional who just wants to help people when in actual fact, she's beyond help herself. The premise may be reasonably interesting, but, in his debut feature, writer/director Drew Pearce undermines it by populating the milieu with cardboard cut-outs instead of characters. True, most of the actors give it their all (Bautista in particular gives a performance far superior to the material with which he has to work), but there's just no substance here, no depth. There are simply too many clichés at every level to be able to overlook them.

Yes, it's an original(ish) idea made with a small(ish) budget, which is exactly what we need more of these days, when every second film is a CGI-infested remake, comic book adaptation, or sequel (or a CGI-infested remake of a sequel to a comic book adaptation). However, an original idea is all very well and good, but it can only take you so far; the execution has to be there as well, and this is where Hotel Artemis falls down. It's simply not an especially well-made film. Pearce does a reasonably good job with the directorial side of things, as aesthetically, the hotel is really intriguing, with a nice use of primary colours and a well-conceived juxtaposition of modern technology and 3D printers with retro décor and secret passages. In terms of plot, however, there's just nothing to latch onto or get your teeth into. None of the characters really do or say anything very interesting, and a half-hour into the film, as it became increasingly apparent that none of them were going to be developed to any great degree, I just stopped caring.… Expand

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Kevin777

Dec 16, 2020

What’s the point of this movie bad storyline bad acting just another crap movie produced for no reason. When is someone going to make a movie worth watching in 2020

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