This movie the first Tile i watch It i can say I didn't Like it at all like a lot's of you Guys, But I arrive by accident to watch it like 10 or 15 times , and the movie is getting better & better, Nothing Special in the scenario, but very well made by the director & his team like they now to have in the NORTH AMERICA , each time i begin to like it more & more :)
( I was working on computers & internet, .... my job,... and after few time i begin to appreciate more & more & better the acting, the light, the Set, Everything in this movie is very well done, not a detail is forget , You should watch it in a very good screen or Cinema it's worth it , enjoy like me the nice acting ( and Judie is not afraid to act with her face natural with out make up , what a actress , BRAVO JUDIE, i prefer Sophia Boutella she is getting at each movie more beautiful & Sexy :)
Again a super cool & modern movie with some great actors men & women ( Sophia Boutella again she is super great speaking a very good english ( always better IN USA if you want to have a long carrier & of course she can talk also some french words & sentences '' she is of course our little franchie girl & now becoming a great woman & she gets better & better at each movie done with her in the casting In the Momie with Tom Cruise she was the only interest to watch it , she is very PhotoGenic her face is ^perfect for the movies light's i wish her & i am sure now a Big Super Big & GRANDE CARRIERE in the movie business , ) of course you have in this movie like Ten Super great actors, Jodie foster , Of Course the Big Jeff Goldblum, jean Thomas Brian Tyree Jenny Slate Zachary Quinto Crosby Franklin; don't forget Dave Bautista who is making since few year's more & more movies & some times he is great in It , I think he can play & act almost every thing from the sweetest man to the Strong & Original man with this impressionnante Body to act in all those movies, he is like Douyne Johnson, getter & better with expérience
enjoy LIKE ME cool :)
PS : ( DRUGS ) Now in Almost every new American Movie you will have & found The CoCaÏNoMan Nose Sharing Like a Crazy on a table , like all most of the Time on the Go like Crazy Bastard's :) without looking if he is taking a big or little Line :)
This movie should be on everybody's watch list just for the cast: Jodie Foster, Sterling K. Brown, Zachary Quinto, Dave Bautista, Brian Tyree Henry, Jeff Goldblum, Charlie Day and Sofia Boutella. Wow.
The setting of this movie: We have a future dystopia, there is hardly any fresh water to drink for the people and the world is ruled and divided by companies and mob bosses. Technology and living standards have rapidly dropped (though due to us being in the future the technology is at least far beyond the things we would be capable right now). In this setting there's this independent hotel called Artemis that is led by a former nurse (portrayed by Jodie Foster) and her personal aid and bodyguard (Dave Bautista) as a private hospital. To being able to be treated you need to be a member of the hotel Artemis, make your monthly payments on time and follow the three important rules: You cannot be a cop, you are not allowed to carry any kind of weapon and as a patient you are in no way allowed to harm another patient.
However, on the day the movie plays all three rules get broken and hell breaks loose.
This movie, that is narrated primarily from the viewing point of the nurse, who is old and suffers from anxieties and phobias. Foster plays here believable as a slitary-eccentric scared person that knows her ways and who - in her element - is totally under control, but also totally looses it if things don't go according to plan. We learn a lot of things from her past and because of this really perfect portrayal you'll start to embosom her really fast, which makes this movie so captivating. The two other characters that really shine are the ones played by Brown and Boutella, because their roles are important - all the other characters, like Day, Goldblum or Quntio actually are only the supporting cast - they deliver as great performances as the main cast, but due to low screen time do not carry any weight. Once the story get's going, it will soon become violent and brutal, some of the scenes where so brutal that I was actually thinking this movie could get an FSK18 rating in Germany (still it didn't - jsut FSK16).
All in all it was pretty interesting, a captivating neo-noire crime drama in a sci-fi setting, with a great cast and for me, as a Jodie Foster fan, it was really nice seeing her on the big screen again, though she got really old, she still owns it!
Review by DeletedBlockedParent2019-04-21T21:21:42Z
Hotel Artemis seems to have been billed as a hot action flick but in truth the action, kicking, stabbing and shooting really takes place in the final fifteen minutes or so with a character study build-up leading into it. Mainly a cartoonish set of boldly drawn characters but nonetheless the film-maker tries to give them interesting characteristics and back-stories. This partially fails and partially succeeds.
For instance I was interested in who they were enough to keep me watching but then I felt that they were very lightly sketched. Jodie Foster, very effective as ‘The Nurse’, is given the lions-share of background but the rest are given one-line lead-ins but not much else. Sofia Boutella, impressive as always in this type of role, is a top assassin who is very successful and she has to record her killing for her client, but that is it. Dave Bautista is huge orderly/minder but that is it. Take this away from the film and what really have is a light, not so fluffy, comic-book style story. The police officer played by Jenny Slate seems to have been a weird afterthought that lead nowhere – I just found the whole part of the story odd.
Overall the look is impressive with the slightly-future LA looking good, just scuzzy enough to be on the edge of riots and noirish Blade Runner look fitting in well. Also the future-tech whilst perhaps a bit too far ahead for ten years in the future was plausible.
All of the acting fitted in well with the type of story and film that Hotel Artemis was but as a whole, I couldn’t help something was missing. The run time at 94 minutes certainly did not outlive its welcome and I was happy to sit and watch from beginning to end but like many films I’ve watched over the years I would not go out of my way to watch it again and by the end of next week I’ll have forgotten most of it.
Which is a shame but Hotel Artemis could have been so much more than it was.