New Rose Hotel
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Movie Reviews of New Rose Hotel
Movie Review: Something else.
Summary: 5 Stars
I started watching the movie, finally having had it on hold, i'd heard about it and how hated it was apparently. As a film it's great, obviously not the greatest thing, but it was pretty intimate. It wasn't a big ending or it wasn't much an action thriller, it wasn't that kind of picture at all. But, it was definitely a picture about the characters. The look of the film was very interesting and very dark, the score was pretty great, the acting too, great. I think Ferrara made a great film, that seems to really be something that's been misunderstood. I haven't read the William Gibson short story so i don't know how much it differs from the original story, but adaptations are hardly ever perfect, maybe a few times, but what counts is the film on it's own. How the film performs and if it does anything for you.Movie Review: Give New Rose Hotel a chance
Summary: 5 Stars
Now look people I know this isn't the Matrix and it's not the best movie out there but I did read the story New Rose Hotel and the movie was closer to the story than Johnny Mnemonic did and beside anything with Chris Walken in it is worth atleast giving it a try. So why not lay off New Rose and go pick on Godzilla or something.Movie Review: walken's funny cRaZy lines "NOOKIE NOOKIE" very fun movie
Summary: 5 Stars
this is a movie that is fun to watch, the singing by abel in the club is very good , walken is at his best with his who cares atitude. defoe is spaced out and cool the way he's falling apart before your eyes , over abel. abel has a nice accent in her voice. the music is cool at the begining of the movieMovie Review: A film for cinematographers
Summary: 5 Stars
An excellent film, but not for the faint of heart, New Rose Hotel requires a level of concentration usually reserved for literature. It is a good measure by which to separate the wheat from the chaff.Movie Review: Mixed Bag...
Summary: 4 Stars
I have real mixed feelings about this one. It's very strong in some aspects and very weak in others. I still enjoyed the movie (would really give it 3.5 stars though), but at the same, I'm not sure I could recommend it to anyone who's not a fan of William Gibson.
First of all, I think the film did a pretty good job of realizing the story. The characterization, dialogue, plot, themes and tone were pretty well represented for me. The tricky thing here is that the story is about 15 pages long and takes place entirely in a Tokyo Capsule Hotel, with the protagonist in a state of utter despair and ennui as he starts piecing together what went wrong through a series of flashbacks, all the while knowing that his time left is slipping away. Granted, that's not really going to flesh out a 90 minute feature, so I was willing to accept the way it's presented. Sometimes you have to make concessions when a book is filmed, and overall I don't think any of this compromised the integrity.
The acting was great, and they had some great dialogue to work with. Walken and Dafoe are as superb as you'd expect. One of the film's best strengths is the noiry con-man banter between the two. Honestly I didn't know much about Asia Argento (I kind of assumed she was Dario's daughter, and cynically thought, "great, nepotism from a B-movie zombie guy") but she really held her own with these two heavy-weights, really well for a young lady whose first language is not English. I didn't need any convincing that she could seduce anyone certainly, and it doesn't hurt that she's half naked a lot of the time. Not a fan of that tattoo though, too tacky for me.
The plot might be a bit inaccessible for some. In some ways it's very slow, there's not a lot of action, or when there is, we don't necessarily see it. A Gibson fan would feel right at home with a premise involving the corporate espionage between MAAS and Hosaka. But for someone walking in cold, it might be a bit hard to grasp the different forces at play. Even having read the story, some of the indirect action took place on one character's PDA - which was monochrome and small, making me question - who is this, where are they and what's going on?
The budget on the movie was obviously not great, but again, I was OK with this aspect in some respects, but turned off by others. This movie is very low-tech by Gibson's standards, but his appeal for me is not in sci-fi gimmicks, but the social effects of these mechanisms. That didn't bother me, if anything it helps, because visual tekkie effects usually don't age well. What did kind of turn me off, the movie takes place in Tokyo, Marakesh and Europe, but each time they changed locales, they'd show just some stock footage video of the city and then dump you in some generic hotel or restaurant. Sorry but it was not only unconvincing, but detracting since it kept screaming to me "I am a low budget movie!"
Love the story, love the acting, love Asia Argento and her friends, love the tone and dialogue. But overall it didn't satisfy due to an equal number of detractions.
Mixed bag. I enjoyed it, but when viewed as a total package, I don't know if I could recommend this to many people outside of WG fans. I enjoyed it, but it certainly has it's flaws, there are a lot worse movies you could watch though.