Welcome to the beautiful and lively motel El Royale-or at least it used to be. Now Playing: Bad Times At The El Royale - 'Welcome To The Royale' Official Trailer
But while the entrance to Bad Times at the El Royale may entice you with cool characters and an intriguing mystery, the rooms are messy, uninvited guests come in at late hours, and the layout is confusing enough to make you want to check out early.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's This could be Heaven or this could be Hell, you could be thinking to yourself, as for the most part the film succeeds at standing among the crowd of Pulp Fiction wannabes.
Goddard follows up his critically acclaimed Cabin in the Woods with something that feels like a lost mid '90s movie, from the time where everyone and their mother started making ensemble self-aware neo-noir crime movies with cool, period soundtracks, tons of dialogue, stylish violence, and convoluted structures in the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s success. However, the punchline isn't so much a hilarious one-liner. Director Drew Goddard's sophomore feature plays out like a joke: a priest, a vacuum cleaner salesman, and a backup singer walk into a motel lobby.
