Million Dollar Hotel gets a bad rap, and I can not really understand why that is. The movie sports an ensemble cast landing each actor in a complicated and interesting role. The plot surrounds a strange Hotel occupied by some of the more unique minds writers could think of. The vast majority of the inhabitants are mentally challenged, so the Hotel has a sort of Asylum feel to it. Everything is going just-as-the-day-before-normal until one of the tenants dies. What would normally would have been just another death in the dregs of the city expands to include the federal government (Mel Gibson) as it is discovered that the boy was the son of a prominent man. The movie itself focuses on the life of one inhabitant. Jeremy Davies does an exceptional job playing Tom Tom - a character more naive and lost than anything else. There's a hint of mental illness and the movie has an air of drug culture. Performances by Milla Jovavich and Davies are fantastic, drawing you into the lives of the two characters. Nothing in the movie feels quite right, which is one of its charms. The film really needs to be taken in the atmosphere of analogy and fantasy as there are a number of unrealistic elements the audience will have to accept or get over. Million Dollar Hotel captures the fantasy of childhood just before finding out that being a grown-up is really paradise lost. Lastly, Gibson plays a role, but does not significantly effect the script. It felt to me as a sort of extended cameo. Gibson represents an inexorable plot, or perhaps the reality of destiny or fate. In the end he does not take away from the movie because of his stardom. His larger than the role feel fits well with the character's effect on the rest of the characters in this hotel at the end of forever.Read full review
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