Can
you imagine that Bono, lead singer with U2 (you say you knew
that already? wow) could be a great Movie writer. Do you think
he has any previous experience of writing for the screen.
Yes he has done score for films and plays before. But a Movie
script is a whole different thing. That plus the fact that
it has taken him quite a few years to get it off the ground
doesn't exactly bode well for the finished project does it?
Apparently
Rattle & Hum director Phil Joannou was rumoured to be
helming it at one point. Then somehow mel Gibson and his production
company got involved. Guess who ends up starring in it. Yes
Mel Gibson. Now is that a spooky coincidence or what, now
how many actors did the production company test for the role?
I would not like to take a guess.
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Mel
Gibsons character is a FBI investigator who is called into
the aforementioned hotel to investigate a suicide of a resident.
Do you think that Bono wrote a script that is based in a Hotel
because he spends most of his life in hotels?
There
are various characters who flit through the Movie and they
are all pretty weird and their acting is a bit on the hammy
side if truth be told. Think Twin Peaks, but whereas Twin
Peaks kept drawing you into its own weird eccentric world,
this I'm afraid makes you want to run away.
While
in making you question everything you see in the Movie is
a very good idea, the actual finished is flawed. There is
nothing in this Movie to actually make you care about what
is happening on screen and shouldn't there at least be one
thing you can care about in every movie ?
Nothing
seems to gel together to make this into a coherent Movie.
Instead
of watching this Movie I recommend the soundtrack, I can wholeheartedly
recommend that. So from now on Bono please stick to what you
are good at , Music.
Tall
Guy
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