Bad Times at the El Royale is a movie about 4 guests who check into a hotel and a hotel manager/housekeeper/concierge/bellhop
* Miles Miller (Lewis Pullman), who is the only hotel employee and supposedly a meek beta-male who turns out to be a badass super soldier.
* Father Daniel Flynn (Jeff Bridges) who is supposedly a priest, but turns out to be an ex bank robber looking to get the money his brother left under the hotel floor.
* Emily Summerspring (Dakota Johnson) who is supposedly just a hippee that turns out to be some supposedly evil kidnapper that turns out kidnapping her daughter (so she's not bad) that turns out to be someone perfectly fine with killin a cop.
* Laramie Seymour Sullivan (John Hamm) is supposedly a vacuum cleaner salesman that turns out to be a FBI agent or something.
* Darlene Sweet (Cynthia Erivo) who is supposedly a singer that turns out to be... oh wait, she really is a singer. c-c-c-combo breaker!!
5 people, 4 of whom are fake. Coincidence!
The cop is investigating the hotel, where we find it has a secret corridor that can film all the occupants through a 1 way mirror.
Anyway, stuff happens, Thor , er Billy Lee (Chris Hemsworth) comes in as some sort of hippie cult leader, but everyone bad dies. Flynn and Darlene escape because they're good, well Flynn did rob a bank and they both ran away with the money, but meh. Also, Sullivan is an FBI agent with a wife and little kid, and he died, but again, meh. Agent Sullivan notified his superiors, was promptly shot, and nothing ever mentioned again about him or the investigation. It was the most interesting part too... wish they had done something with that instead. but no, seeing Emily with a shotgun and a hostage, Sullivan decides to bump her in the head and not secure the area or the kidnapper so that she can shoot him in the chest. .
The movie started off really nice and I felt I was in for something special, but it ended up just being a hostage movie that went nowhere until the end.
6/10. I wasn't bored, but it did seem long. There were a couple of nice scenes (Darlene popping Billy Lee's persona for one, Cyntia Erivo's singing, Miles at the end), but really nothing to make the movie memorable. 6/10
5 people, 4 of whom are fake. Coincidence!
The cop is investigating the hotel, where we find it has a secret corridor that can film all the occupants through a 1 way mirror.
Anyway, stuff happens, Thor , er Billy Lee (Chris Hemsworth) comes in as some sort of hippie cult leader, but everyone bad dies. Flynn and Darlene escape because they're good, well Flynn did rob a bank and they both ran away with the money, but meh. Also, Sullivan is an FBI agent with a wife and little kid, and he died, but again, meh. Agent Sullivan notified his superiors, was promptly shot, and nothing ever mentioned again about him or the investigation. It was the most interesting part too... wish they had done something with that instead. but no, seeing Emily with a shotgun and a hostage, Sullivan decides to bump her in the head and not secure the area or the kidnapper so that she can shoot him in the chest. .
The movie started off really nice and I felt I was in for something special, but it ended up just being a hostage movie that went nowhere until the end.
6/10. I wasn't bored, but it did seem long. There were a couple of nice scenes (Darlene popping Billy Lee's persona for one, Cyntia Erivo's singing, Miles at the end), but really nothing to make the movie memorable. 6/10