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Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

Thriller | 141 minutes
3,41 919 votes

Genre: Thriller

Duration: 141 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Drew Goddard

Stars: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo and Dakota Johnson

IMDb score: 7,1 (171.788)

Releasedate: 4 October 2018

Bad Times at the El Royale plot

"All roads lead here"

Seven strangers, each with a dark secret, meet in the El Royale. The El Royale is a run-down hotel near Lake Tahoe in California. During the evening everyone has their chance of redemption. Before all hell breaks loose.

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Father Daniel Flynn / Dock O'Kelly

Darlene Sweet

Emily Summerspring

Laramie Seymour Sullivan / Dwight Broadbeck

Miles Miller

Rose Summerspring

Felix O'Kelly

Buddy Sunday

Dr. Woodbury Laurence

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mrklm

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The best movie I've seen in theaters since Mulholland Drive. Although the set-up and extensive use of Motown music initially suggests that we are dealing here with (another) attempt to be 'cool' in a Tarantino-esque way, writer/director Drew Goddard delivers a unique film that is absolutely perfect in every way.

Ten years after someone hid a bag of valuables under the floor of a motel room and was then shot and killed, a number of people visit the El Royale, a motel literally built on the border of Nevada and California for a long time, at almost the same time. was popular with dignitaries. Now it's the late 60's and run by Miles Miller [Lewis Pullman]. One day, he successively receives a vacuum cleaner salesman [John Hamm], an absent-minded priest [Jeff Bridges], a session singer [Cynthia Erivo] and a hippie [Dakota Johnson].

Slowly but surely, we discover the personal secrets (and demons) that the individual characters wrestle with in a film in which Drew Goddard not only presents the viewer with one surprise after another, but in which he manages to maintain the tension constantly and often to reach unprecedented heights. The characterizations are very strong and Goddard changes perspective without any problem to provide each storyline with a new dimension. Even the regular flashbacks are effectively and very stylishly portrayed. Chris Hemsworth visibly enjoys a fantastic villain role that is somewhere between Jim Morrison and Charles Manson, without ever overshadowing the other characters. The entire cast, including the surprising and brilliantly cast Dakota Johnson, is spot on, but it's Jeff Bridges who stands out a little above the rest in a monumental rendition that deserves the quality of this absolute masterpiece.

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baspls

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Bad Times at the El Royale is a surprisingly strong film from Drew Goddard.

Pretty bizarre that no one seems to realize how intelligent this movie actually is. Everyone is talking about the mysterious atmosphere or about similarities with the Coen brothers or Quentin Tarantino, but no one discusses the content of the film. Goddard is Catholic and with that in mind you should analyze the film carefully. The whole film is in fact one big allegory of the Catholic perception of purgatory. The intermediate portal where sinners come until they go to heaven or to hell. The whole message of the film is the importance of showing repentance and the sacrament of confession. I think the fact that this is not discussed at all shows how secularized the world is today.

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Lavrot

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In my TV guide this film was called a failure, but my opinion is the opposite. Biggest criticism of the description in that guide was that the message of the film was not clear. My response: "So what?" You never read that in films by the acclaimed Quentin Tarantino. In his concoctions, critics praise the structure, the interweaving with other film works, the dialogues, etc.

In this film, all the above mentioned things can at least testify to the same quality. Secretly I think this El Royal is a masterpiece.

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