Unexpectedly Great

Rating: 10/10 (26 July 2015)

Hey guys it's Quinn c from YouTube and today we are going to be taking a look at probably the biggest surprise in film in 2014, at least for me; the grand Budapest hotel. Grand Budapest Stars Ralph fiennes as m. Gustave, the greatest concierge in the history of the hotel, and his apprentice, zero, as they more or less steal a painting that they technically earned in a ladies will. They are forced to steal because of the crazy son, played by adrien Brodien, and his from Russia with love, red grant esc sadistic henchmen, played by willem Defoe. But enough with credits, lets crack at it. I saw this movie back in July because I had 100 minutes left in my flight, so I put on the shortest movie possible. It was between this and a romance called *uggghh* the other women. Yeah so dodged a bullet on that one. But anyways, I literally had no expectations for this film, and the cover looked cheesy and I watched it because I thought it would be a good laugh, but for all the wrong reasons.
Little did I know, this movie actually pretty damn funny. But even better then that, the story is a ton of mini movies jam packed into one, which is great for a few reasons. The beginning is a great hotel, then it goes into Thomas crown affair with him stealing the painting, then shawshank redemption in the jail, the fugitive in his escape, and so on. But the great part is that all these sort of mini scenes blend together so well because of one thing, the fantastic acting from Ralph fiennes. I know this will sound weird but he reminds me of Peter sellers in that his acting of course is Great, but the human that he naturally brings just elevates him and his entire film to another degree.
It's the story that makes this movie good, it's the cleaver humor that makes it great. My one little negative about this film is there is this scene when the henchmen is chasing down the lawyer to attend the ladies funeral and therefore steal the painting. Granted, the chase is fun and pretty creepy at times, but when the lawyer is caught, it's just sort of morbid how he's killed. It may just be because I was watching it on an airplane instead of a theatre or at home, but this part just left a foul taste. But besides that, there is so much to enjoy. There's some Great camiós during Gustaves escape from prison, by most notably bill Murray, and the chases itself are on like super speed that it's ridiculous but almost makes it more fun to watch. I love how Gustaves friend from the past keeps bailing Gustave out of jams, such as when Gustave and zero are stops by the German army at a border checkpoint. What is so good about that is that Gustave, throughout this entire movie, is made out to be the greatest guy, and seeing that he has friends not only in other hotels, such as the bill Murray character, the woman who dies and he therefore gets her painting, or the German soldier, it's just cool to see him have so many connections
So overall, just like the wedding ringers in my prior review, this movie was a pleasant surprise. It had a great cast, dr strangelove esc humor, and interesting story, fun camiós, and as a bonus a pretty great theme song. All of the awards that this movie has been nominated for and won are well deserved, because With a score of 10 this is the second best film I saw all year.
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