Film Review: Hotel Artemis

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Cert: 15 cert

Director: Drew Pearce

Screenwriter: Drew Pearce

Starring: Jodie Foster, Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum, Brian Tyree Henry, Jenny Slate, Zachary Quinto, Charlie Day, Dave Bautista, Kenneth Choi, Father John Misty, Evan Jones, Nathan Davis Jr., Ramses Jimenez, Angela Sprinkle.

Running time: 1h 34min

Parents advised reading before viewing the film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity:

• Nice, an assassin, walks through the Artemis in a cleavage-baring, thigh-exposing, curve-accentuating evening gown.
• she's been paid to kill someone at the Artemis, and she'll be recording and streaming the murder (with a device placed in her eye) so that her client can masturbate as he watches.
• She also tenderly kisses Waikiki.
• Acapulco, an arms dealer, ogles Nice.
• When she tells him that he's saying her codename wrong, he tells her that he was just describing her rear.
• He also painfully flirts with her and suggests the two have chemistry.
• Nurse treats him for an injury to his face-remarking that, judging by the pink nail polish she found in the wounds, he's paying her for her "discretion."
• A nurse is a lesbian, and she reminisces about a trampoline-using next-door neighbour (and how the trampoline use accentuated her female attributes).

Violence & Gore:

• As much as Nurse tries to patch folks up in Hotel Artemis, the hospital's guests and interlopers do their best to keep her overcommitted.
• A man has his throat bloodily cut-perhaps even peeled
• Another man is killed via 3-D printer, which smashes and pierces the man's skull.
• We see both the death blow and the victim's leg and foot twitch in the aftermath.
• Someone is killed after being violently injected with painkiller meant for "baby elephants," and another goes into fatal cardiac arrest.
• Several people are slaughtered in a frenetic hallway battle, dispatched via scalpel cuts to their bodies and blows to their heads
• Others are taken out with a fire axe.
• In several flashbacks, we see a dead body lying underneath a pier.
• Guns, most of which were apparently "printed" at Hotel Artemis, are brandished and fired
• Some of those bullets hit victims in the chest, abdomen or leg.
• Nice admits that she shot herself to get into the Artemis, and we see Nurse painfully patching her up.
• The nurse inserts needles and other apparent healing apparatuses into gaping, bloody wounds
• While the medical technology in 2028 has advanced significantly, the process is obviously painful, especially when so few receive any sort of painkiller.
•  A woman lies, obviously seriously wounded, outside the hospital
• She retains several bloody marks on her face for the rest of the film.
• Someone has their nose painfully broken on a rail. an explosion rips through part of the Artemis.
• Someone tries to strangle Everest with a cord
• Everest almost nonchalantly brushes him off and throws him into a concrete bridge support.
• The film's story takes place during some frenetic rioting and news reporters say the rampage is the most violent in the city's history.
• We see a bit of the rioting
• Police are pushed back, pushed over and nearly trampled.
• Three others are beaten up and knocked out in an alley.
• We see explosions around the city and view violent footage on the age's equivalent of television.

Profanity: 

• about 96 f-words
• about 35 s-words
• one or two uses (or near uses) of the c-word.
• We also hear "a--," "b--ch," "d--n" and "pr--k." "G-dd--n" is spit out a half-dozen times
• along with about four abuses of Jesus' name.
• About 96 F-words, about 35 s-words and one or two uses (or near uses) of the c-word.
• We also hear "a--," "b--ch," "d--n" and "pr--k." "G-dd--n" is spit out a half-dozen times along with about four abuses of Jesus' name.

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking:

• Waikiki's brother, Honolulu, apparently does drugs
• A nurse shows Waikiki the needle marks in the webbed clefts between his fingers and tells him that healing his liver is all the more difficult because of the "toxins" in there
• Waikiki laments the discovery, telling Nurse that his brother swore to him that he quit
• Honolulu, in serious pain after his liver "transplant," self-medicates with a bit of pain-killer.
• Drugs are everywhere in this hospital/hotel, though.
• Nurse dutifully puts some plastic vials of drugs in each guest room and when someone complains that he's in pain, Nurse suggests that he help himself to some morphine.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: 

• The film isnt really intense but more adult theme due to the certain scene, it rated Mature for adult content. 

Story: Set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, 'Hotel Artemis' follows the Nurse, who runs a secret, members-only emergency room for criminals


Likes: The premise to this film sounded and looked like a good film from the trailer, taking the criminal hotel element from the film John Wick and set it in the near future with a quirky Jodie Foster in charge seem like a great film.

Unfortunately it a good film just not a great film, I did notice that it tries it's hardest to be a Quentin Tarantino-esque character piece, which most of Tarantino film do so well but it lacks Tarantino style with the character.

Which is a shame because the premise of this film is set up so well for an all-out floor to floor fight scene, but all you get is these lacklustre moments throughout the film. Jodie Foster performance is great through the film, Dave Bautista and the rest of the cast perform well with what they were given, but the dialogue is a little questionable at times.

Anyone going into this film thinking Jeff Goldblum will save this film, you will be sadly disappointed as he role in this film is more of a brief cameo. Sadly this is not a film I could rush to watch again, though good to watch, I feel this film could've had so many more opportunity this film could've had, but I assume the budget was low for this film.

I would recommend watching this but it far from a great film, felt more of a straight to DVD film than a cinema film to be honest, just by the way the film is the way the story flows.


Dislikes: The film biggest problem is the lack of action and certain dialogue and characters.

• 1. Action: There is a lack of action in this film which is a shame because the set of a hotel is a big set up for a floor to floor gun and martial art fight in the corridors, which this film sadly is missing, special when you have an actor like Dave Bautista, where this guy shine more is in action scene as well as Sofia Boutella, this film could've had fight scenes with dozens of men, it would have made this more entertaining.

• 2. The dialogue in places was a little cringe-worthy like it just didn't make sense to say certain things like the film was trying to hard to be a Tarantino film with that character style which didn't work in this film.

• 3. Jeff Goldblum character was utterly pointless in this film, being names the wolf king you would think this guy character would be a man not to be messed with, yet his character is so written badly it was hardly worth the character being in the film. 

Overall: Good film to watch, not great, some good fight scene but a little lacking in action.

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 for Entertainment / 6 out of 10 for concept