New Rose Hotel

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2002 Filmcritic.com

Frustrated to the point where most people will give up, Abel Ferrara's New Rose Hotel is one of the worst-realized psychodramas ever made, despite its stellar one-two punch of Walken and Dafoe. Ostensibly a story about two con men who take $100 million to get a bigshot scientist to defect to a rival firm, it eventually turns into a story of obsession and subjectivity when Dafoe's character realizes he's been had. The end result is that the last half the movie is a flashback to the first half of the movie, and mostly in slow motion. Interminable and dull, with plenty of mood lighting and little in the way of mood.

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Rating

2.0 out of 5 Stars

Cast and Crew

  • Director: Abel Ferrara
  • Producer: Edward R. Pressman
  • Screenwriter: Abel Ferrara, Christ Zois
  • Stars: Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento, Annabella Sciorra
  • MPAA Rating: R