Hotel Noir (2012)
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13% of critics liked it
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36% of users liked it
(132 ratings)
Downtown Los Angeles, sometime in the 1950′s. Nighttime. A detective checks into a hotel across from the train station and waits. He knows it's simply a matter of time before the gangsters he has stolen from come find him. He has played his hand and come up short. He's broken his own… More Downtown Los Angeles, sometime in the 1950′s. Nighttime. A detective checks into a hotel across from the train station and waits. He knows it's simply a matter of time before the gangsters he has stolen from come find him. He has played his hand and come up short. He's broken his own rules. He's as good as dead. On his last night on earth, long past the point of caring, he meets as series of characters: a singer trying to become a better person, a salesman with a secret, a gambler with an attitude, a chambermaid full of dreams. The past keeps crashing into the present and the future - if such a thing ever existed - is but a vague rumor. This is the world of Hotel Noir. -- (C) Official Site
- Directed By
- Sebastian Gutierrez
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Cult Movies
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 12, 2012 Limited
- Studio
- Locomotive Entertainment Group
Critic Reviews
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Daniel M. Gold, New York Times
To succeed as more than a study in artifice, a film - especially one steeped in fatalism - needs to feel real.
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Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
A first-rate cast and stunning black-and-white visuals aren't enough to make this homage to classic film noir successful.
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Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
It's hard to know whether Sebastian Gutierrez is imitating or satirizing the hard-boiled noirs of Hollywood's past, but either way it feels like a botched attempt.
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Rex Reed, New York Observer
The film's weakest link is Rufus Sewell's rumpled gumshoe, inarticulate and mumbling to the point of madness.
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David Fear, Time Out New York
You never lose the nagging sense that you're simply watching a high-school drama club's production of '40s fatalism chic.
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