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User reviews Review. Top review. Complete subverts expectations and keeps you at the edge of your seat. With an all-star cast, the acting is solid from start to finish, and Lewis Pullman Miles, the hotel manager steals the spotlight even with Chris Hemsworth in the mix.
The structure of the film feels fresh and simulating, with non-linear storytelling and scenes from multiple perspectives, though at times, the pacing does tend to drag at certain parts. The more energetic scenes are accompanied by an incredible soundtrack, with classics from the 60's; that create a warm and versed vibe. The topics of ultimatums and self reflection are presented, and exceptionally highlight by the cinematography. We in the audience edge forward in our seats, anxiously waiting for them to start stinging each other.
Soon enough, the first ruse is dropped. Sullivan is revealed to be an FBI agent working undercover, searching for something hidden at the hotel under order from Bureau chief J.
Edgar Hoover. The El Royale turns out to be just as devious as its clientele. While spying on the various rooms, Sullivan discovers that Emily has a young woman named Ruth Cailee Spaeny bound and gagged in her room. As he starts to intervene, gunfire occurs, and the movie is off to the races. The backstories of the characters start eating up gobs of screen time and slowly the momentum that the thriller was building dies. What started out as a crackling yarn starts to become a numbing exercise in narrative excess.
The Tony-winning actress is a great singer, but Goddard indulges her talent far too frequently throughout the film. Long passages of time that should be devoted to tightening the screws and ratcheting up the tension between the guests are instead frittered away on details that drag down the main story. Who cares about the sandwiches and pies in the lobby?
Why does everyone take so long to do anything in the rain-soaked parking lot? And do we really need to hear all those songs on the jukebox, or watch Darlene belt out ditty after ditty in her motel room? Tick tock, tick tock….
Bridges is always fun to watch, even though Goddard lets him indulge in his old coot act a bit too much here. Most shockingly, the filmmaker has written nothing for Johnson to play. Her performance begins and ends with glowering. And why is Goddard so stingy in naming the celebrity on that notorious 16 mm sex film that figures so strongly in the plot?
Is he pulling punches or just being coy? Goddard has a flair for finding the comedy and pathos equally in criminal characters, but he fails to deepen them as much as he should as the film drags on.
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