In my opinion, this movie is one of Wes Anderson's best.

Rating: 10/10 (7 April 2014)

I think The Grand Budapest Hotel is an excellent film and a lot of people seem to agree with me. This movie is expertly crafted including details such as the aspect ratio changing so it matches that of what time period it is based in. This movie is mostly done with special effects including old effects such as when a character has a nose bleed the blood painted on does not match up to their nostril and they use many painted backdrops in the film. The only scene that bothered me in the movie was the CGI skiing scene, it's not a bad scene it's just the CGI used looks a bit out of place considering the rest of the movie but that's my only problem with the movie. I'll begin to talk about the well-crafted plot now.
The whole movie is based off the works of Stefan Zweig who wrote stories of eccentric characters just like Wes Anderson and I imagine Wes Anderson is inspired by him. The movie starts off in the fictional country of the Republic of Zubrowka after the author begins to tell the story. The year is 1968 and the young author has traveled to Zubrowka now devastated by war. The author is staying in The Grand Budapest Hotel which is now run down and weathered by time. The author meets the owner of The Grand Budapest Hotel, Zero Moustafa. Zero explains why he now owns the hotel and why he wants to keep it open. The main plot now begins with the eccentric M. Gustave, the hotels' concierge who is with Madame D. one of the many older women M. Gustave 'escorts'. Madame D. feels this will be the last time she will ever see M. Gustave, before being sent off she says how much she loves M. Gustave. She is found dead soon after and M. Gustave is accused of being the murderer but he is also left in her will the priceless painting 'Boy with apple'. The plot then goes with the events that follow.
This movie is filled with excellent performances by Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, Jude Law, Edward Norton, Saoirse Ronan and the newcomer Tony Revolori. After I saw this movie I couldn't stop thinking and talking about it for weeks a thing I think all good movies should be able to do, I give this movie a solid 10 out of 10.