Product: The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
Rating: 1.0
Please do not watch this film
Whilst flicking through the new releases listings I noticed that this film had received cracking reviews and ratings from other Amazon shoppers, this alarmed me so much that I felt my opinion should be heard (something I don't usually do).I believe that everybody has their "Do not, no matter what, go and see this film" story, which you will tell your friends and colleagues and even have a bit of a chuckle about it. I went to see Million Dollar Hotel during its theatrical release here in the UK.A film requires characters that are slightly likeable... This film sadly has none. I also believe that a film requires a screenplay that has some substance to it, hell it might even overpower the terrible characters, but again this film is incredibly lacking in this facet.So a film which has characters and a story that are both neither interesting nor attractive, I then continue to tell you why you should not see this film. I believe that a film can be very stylised and very cool, I love the Coen Bros., Gilliam and Kubrick, all who perform their stylising very well, sadly I felt that this film tried too hard and it looked poo, the dirtiness annoyed me, Jovovich's character was sooo flaky it was untrue, the lead character Tom-Tom (Jeremy Davies) was intensely irritating, believe it or not Gibson was the only actor that provided some clean relief and I hope that this is a film that Roth will never admit that he was ever involved in.A film of such poor substance is generally forgivable if it has loads of explosions, special effects, fighting etc. but, you guessed it, it doesn't, just a crappy film that will please such a small minority of Wim Wenders fans it really shouldn't have been made.Other than all of the above shortcomings it has more, YES MORE, reasons why you shouldn't see this movie, from the opening credits it was obvious that Bono had been significantly involved in this movies production, from score to cameo's, all of this gave the film a feel of a Bono music video, a crap music video, with a poor story behind it. 15 minutes into themovie and any intelligent person will be able to tell that this film is not going to get any better.Please, for your own sake do not watch this film, to quote Delroy Lindo in get shorty "I have seen better film on teeth."Please do not watch it to see how bad it is, it really, really sucks! then again you will always need something bad to compare the good to I suppose.