Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

4 directors, 4 segments. If you watch this movie, you will have to crunch the urge to cancel watching, for a good 30mins. You have to work your way through some complete weirdo scripts and acting. The two first segments, really don't need to be in this movie, but are worth watching, for the balance you then get by watching the last 2 segments.Quentin Tarantino... well hold on, let me back up a bit. If any of you know about Joe Satriani, super guitarist, and his G3 project, Q.T. is doing what Joe does with those G3 tours. Joe Satriani invites 2 of the worlds best rock-guitarists to do this G3 tour with him. -and i mean great awesome guitarists. Then he lets them play some insanely good solos, and then Joe takes over and runs circles around them, playing, and sounding, 10x better than them.Quentin did exactly that with this movie, intentionally or not. Q.T. sort of let's those 3 other directors 'borrow' his gear and set, to let them have a go at his filming style. And then Quentin finishes it all off with a stellar performance, both as an actor, and script writer, and of course director, that leaves you thinking "wow, it was really really worth not giving up halfway through this movie"THE END.

Some reviewers posting here go on and on and (yawn) on as to why they loved the movie, whining all the while that it deserved better reception among audiences. I will not bore anyone to tears with my take on it, but will keep it simple and succinct: 3 directors took Tarantino's bait, and became deliriously, selfishly and obliviously self-indulgent in making tripe. When 50% of a movie is bad, the entire project is spoiled, and the first two shorts of this 4-parter are so over-the-top in stupidity (the first being stupid in an immature, pubescent sense, and the second being stupid simply because it is pointless rambling and nonsense). Those reviewers who favor Rodriguez and Tarantino can do much better than to point to this film as some work of art, which it cannot be since it was only a kiddie playpen for 4 buddies, and at the end of the day their diapers need changing.

At the early point in the careers of Alison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino they all came together to make this anthology film. It's a frame story where we follow the nameless Bellhop (Time Roth) through the night as he interacts with the different bizarre tenants of the hotel ranging from drunk Hollywood directors to witches.There's not much linking the different stories other than cameos from the some similar characters between sketches, a few references to previous segments and the constant presence of our nameless bellhop. Other than this, each sketch follows its own distinct style and story to give the filmmakers greater control of their own shorts. This is partly beneficial as it creates originality. But it also lacks consistency between segments, with even the character of the Bellhop's personality switching between segments. The Missing Ingredient- By far the weakest segment, it follows a Covent of witches who need to complete a ritual. However they are short of a mans semen and decide to get it from the bellhop. The entire sketch is mostly annoying from start to finish through its mixture of bad performances and dreadful writing from Alison Anders. There's not even many jokes in this segment and most of the attempts at humour were creepy. 4/10The Wrong Man- When the bellhop goes to the wrong room, a couple forces him to join in on their strange game. This time the sketch does actually have good performances with David Proval giving an enjoyably over the top performance. But unfortunately he doesn't have much to work with as just like Anders segment, Rockwell made a weak script that's light on jokes. 5/10The Misbehavers- The bellhop must look after a pair of kids, so their parent (Banderas) can have fun at a party. But every time he leaves the room they both get into more and more trouble. This is where the film becomes enjoyable and has some entertaining situation comedy moments. It's like a prototype version of Spy Kids (albeit with some adult humour thrown in) showcasing Rodriguez great flare for slapstick style comedy. It's witty, memorable and is enjoyably eventful. 6/10The Man from Hollywood- This is by far the films greatest segment. Mostly based around a Hitchcock episode by Roald Dahl, Chester Rush (Quentin Tarantino playing a parody of himself) wants the bellhop to cut off their friends finger if he loses the bet. The segment is well made with many of Tarantino's usual traits being present in the film and includes one impressive long take to open the scene. On top of this it follows a very tense build up before getting to a very enjoyable and funny pay off. 8/10It's very much a roller-coaster film, with some high points but also some low points. The first 2 segments are dull and unenjoyable. But then it does pick up for both Rodriguez and Tarantinos segments. Whilst it may not feel like it at first, the film is worth watching with some memorable and entertaining moments picking up speed as it goes.

Quite different, with an unexpected story made up between four consecutive narratives. An incredible welcome of the new year with absolutely no predictable ending. Persons which appear on the screen surprise us one after another with their reputation and professionalism.Starting from the topic of the flesh immediately grabs our interest by asking us to assume more vulgar development. Then stuns with a familiar image in an atypical role and carries us into the world of children garnished with a dead hooker. And the end is even more unexpected, especially if you do not know anything about the movie. The action takes us to the top floor of the hotel room where we find him. This time, there is almost no blood, though the focus again is on death and pain.Maybe a little overstated but still I use it to make advertising of the place where I found out about it (https://www.facebook.com/sofest?fref=nf). I was impressed by the level of knowledge and headlines of movies that are shared there and decided to do an experiment whose result was quite successful. That is why I am moving on! You?http://vihrenmitevmovies.blogspot.com/