The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)

Un consumidor Mexicano.

Me encantan las películas de Win Wenders y esta la verdad es que aunque ya tiene algo de tiempo no la conocía, mi descubrimiento de la misma fue por el video de U2 de una muy buen canción "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" que forma parte del soundtrack de esta película, en dicho video aparecen escenas de la película como es obvio y sale en un cameo al escritor Salman Rushdie, el mismo que el Ayatola Jomeini le pusiera precio a su cabeza por su libro "los versos satanicos" y que actualmente vive refugiado en USA, se que sera un placer por fin poder ver esta película. June 9, 2008

The Emperor Has No Clothes

Too bad there is not a rating of MINUS-stars. This film is garbage; boring, pretentious, and meaningless. Perhaps other reviews can attach their own fantasies and for them this DOA film may say something. But I found it an irritating waste of time. When a script and the characters within it have no definition, no relevance, and no entertainment value - watching it becomes either self-torture or an exercise in pretending that it serves some arty vision. This is the only time that Mel Gibson let me down. I understand he donated his services to this production and, in that case, he was very much overpaid. December 10, 2007

a 4 Star hotel.

I have never smiled sooo much through a 'Mystery film'.
This is a very cool movie.

Many have labeled it as an "Artsy" movie, to my ARTSY usually means abstract or undefined. This movie is straight forward, a guy is dead in the begining of the movie and the detective is trying to find out who killed him or if it was suicide. Very basic, but what is NOT basic is the suspects / witnesses.

Each one is living in his own world, you have the mentaly challenged, the [...] artiest, the one who thinks he's the 5th beatle. So the enjoyment is seeing how the detective *who is just as strange as the other charecters* tries to get information out of them. So you get a little romance, and alot of smiles through this experiance.

I personally enjoyed it, espcially with the fact that you hear Bono singing almost throught the whole movie :D

Why did I give it 4 & not 5 stars?
I was not too happy with the extra features, they did not title anyone when they are speaking, so if you don't know the names of the actors, producers ect..then your out of luck. Also the audio in the extra features was a bit unstable, low to high depeding on who is being interviewed..AND I was VERY disapointed not to find at least ONE music video for the movie from Bono, there are songs in the movie that Bono had written FOR the movie, it would have helped if they actually Interviewed Bono, since he is a co-writter in the film to give us more insight on the inspiration for this project.

Other than that, it is a very cool movie, with a very believeable cast, I mean you actually believe this guys are NUTS, its fantastic. And for a murder/thriller, it actually dosen't have that much violence or blood in it...but alot of smiles. July 6, 2006

Much Ado About Nothing

Despite of having the hand of a true great director at the helm and a multi-star cast (including a top-notch soundtrack by U2), the movie lacks the rhythm and charisma needed to live up to its expectations, with great performances lost in a bad script. It's just a wanna-be art movie, and nothing else. November 4, 2005

QUIRKY, EXCELLENT ACTING

If you're looking for great special effects, beautiful women, chase scenes or sporting events this is not the movie for you. If you appreciate art, great acting and a different kind of story make sure you catch this movie. Very little is obvious, you must do much of the work yourself from clues given. Not for everyone, and not to watch if you want to be entertained without thinking. June 21, 2005

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