Hotel Artemis. From the title card, complete with copyright date, you know you’re going to see something that’s a homage to a mix of pulp + exploitation + disaster movies of the 1970s. But. You’re not.
There are too many storylines and intersecting character arcs for a 93 minute movie. When they all start to crash together, it gets truly exciting. But then the plug gets pulled. You don’t get to see how most of the fights end. There are just nods to what happened when a character shows up in another scene or, worse, shows up at the very end of the movie. That’s my main complaint. It’s kind of a big one. I did like the movie. But every time you think you’re about to be pulled into something, that something gets dropped. One of the best parts of the movie is that it does not take itself too seriously. It is what it is. I appreciated that. But, it needed to care a little more. It was close to being really fun and almost epic.