New Rose Hotel
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Movie Reviews of New Rose Hotel
Movie Review: where are the extra tracks!
Summary: 3 Stars
hey, what gives? Amazon says there should be 2 specific commentaries & an Easter egg on this DVD & the sticker on the box says "contains 2 or more commentaries" (whatever that means!), but there's only one commentary on here, by the screenplay's author, not by "Gibson, Ferrara or the cast." Does anyone know what happened here?Movie Review: Hampered by budget
Summary: 3 Stars
Obviously this movie was hampered by budget. The director and actors are all top notch. The story is good, but a little short. If they had a bigger budget it could have been superb. Too bad it wasn't picked by hollywood and was done foreign. It's worth watching.Movie Review: A movie that could have been.
Summary: 2 Stars
Look, it's like this.The story New Rose Hotel, by William Gibson is one which hilights the decay of society through peoples own self destructive impulses and that never ending bain of humanity greed.
As a story, New Rose Hotel is to be honest way to short to even contemplate making a movie out of it. There's just not enough there and when I watch the movie, it shows immensely. Dafoe and Walken are 2 of my favourite actors and there performance together I found to be of good status. What this movie needed to do was give the viewer a good explanation as to the status of the society , this different world, basically an atmosphere. Instead it gives you a blurred corporate scene and then your thrown into a bar with women that can't sing and the 2 main characters forcing themselves to make out there enjoying the poor entertainment. The exchanging of information should have been more secretive and when people wispered in others ears you should have been given a zoom on that audio. Then there was the main guts of the story, with the nano technologist. This was what could have been the movies saviour, alas it was brushed over and the conversations where the main focus of the movie. This brings me to my last annoyance. The person in charge of camera directing should have been .... Instead of seeing people interacting together at important sections of the story, you got terrible close ups of single faces that were below amateur quality and destracted you from the dialogue. All in all Gibson should have written extra material for the movie and a lot more should have been spent on atmosphere to enhance the intrigue of the story, even if it meant getting more cost effective actors. ...I like to end with a positive note, and the only one I can make as far as capturing the story goes, is that the end scene that Dafoe acted out at the end was effective enough.
If your like me and a fan of William Gibson and these two great actors, you may want this movie as part of your collection, but I tell you now, after your first viewing it's one that will sit and gather dust very quickly.
Movie Review: Confusing Narrative!!! Beware!!! Spoiler below!!!
Summary: 2 Stars
New Rose Hotel has a great plot. Two corporate spies (Fox and X) are hired by a company (Hosaka)try to steal this Japanese scientist (Hiroshi) from one of their rivals (Maas). The two spies end up using a call girl (Sandii) to seduce the scientist and convince him to switch sides. X soon falls in love with Sandii and has trouble accepting her affair with Hiroshi(despite the fact that's what X and Fox hired her for). However, everything is going according to plan and Hiroshi defects to Hosaka. Because of this, X and Fox become millionaires overnight. Unfortunately, the plan backfires when Sandii backstabs Fox and X by defecting to Maas. In the process of her defection; she is able to reprogram a DNA sequencer (?) that ends up killing Hiroshi and all of the top minds at Hosaka in a lab in Marrakesh that Fox and X set up to hide Hiroshi. Hosaka first makes the millions of dollars they paid X and Fox disappear before they even had a chance to spend it and then come after Fox and X (who they believe double-crossed them when in fact Sandii double-crossed them too). Fox gets killed and X ends up hiding out at the New Rose Hotel reminscing about what went wrong. Great story, right? Well, if you watched the movie, you wouldn't have been able to made sense of the plot above. It was only after reading Mr. Gibson's story that I understood the plot. This movie is incoherrent and if it wasn't for the strong performances of Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, and Asia Argento, this movie would be a total waste of time. Abel, you can do better!! The movie was pleasant to watch for the most part. No technical glitches or cheap effects. However, what good is a movie if you can't understand what's going on? That's the problem with New Rose Hotel. That's why I give it such a low rating. Unfortunately, this film reinforces the often mistaken reputation of its director for stressing style over substance.
Movie Review: Almost Unendurable...
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie peaks when Christopher Walken (who has never been unwatchable) declares, "Fluffy!" Watch for it! It probably isn't as funny as I thought it was, but I couldn't stop laughing. The rest of the movie is dreary and slow. I really hate to condemn honest attempts at artistic expression, and I believe that this is an honest attempt. Ferrera makes demands on his audience--which is fine; there's no excuse for laziness--but when those demands are met, they ought to be rewarded. This movie does not reward what can only be called the stoic endurance of anyone who manages to sit through it.
Other reviews have outlined the plot, so I don't need to repeat it here. I will say, though, that Walken and Defoe are horribly misused in this movie. Art doesn't need to be boring. Tolstoy doesn't bore us. Hemingway doesn't bore us. Orson Welles doesn't bore us. Hitchcock doesn't bore us. Why does Ferrera sacrifice content at the altar of style? This movie isn't only tedious, it is *needlessly* tedious. The movie takes a good idea, a good story, and ruins it. You'll pull your hair out watching Willem Defoe agonize alone in a tiny hotel room for 20 minutes. Guess what he's agonizing over: Love. Yawn. His agony is nothing compared to ours, watching this movie.
Abel Ferrera is best when he's delivering straight entertainment (King of New York, and Body Snatchers, for instance), and using his stylistic flourishes to satisfying the narrative, not his own pretenses.