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Rating:  - Four Rooms - Five Stars
Tarintino returns with his steady cast of players for another supremely entertaining show. Four Rooms moves the talent around with Tim Ross running with the lead.
The cast is, as always in Quentin's movies, fabulous.
The script, as always in Quentin's movies, fabulous.
A don't miss for Tarintino fans. A should see for just about everyone else 8 to 80.
Rating:  - One room too many
Four Rooms is a collaborative effort with Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino all writing and directing a short film that concerns one bellboy in one hotel on a very weird New Year's eve. Ted (Tim Roth) is that bellboy who encounters everything from witches, one very jealous husband, a couple of misbehaving kids, and some very inebriated Hollywood players on this New Year's Eve which incidentally happens to be his first night on the job. In the first film directed by Anders entitled The Missing Ingredient six witches are planning on resurrecting a witch who died too young on her wedding night. Each witch is supposed to have brought something in order for the ritual to work stuff like breast milk, a virgin's blood and another ingredient which let's just say they need a man for. That man is Ted as one of the witches (Ione Skye) is in charge of relieving Ted of the ingredient. For me the Missing Ingredient in this film was Ione Skye's top. It was nice to see Diane Court letting loose of her inhibitions in this one. Other sexy witches included Valeria Golino, Lili Taylor, Alicia Witt, and unfortunately Madonna. Fun stuff to get this film going. The second and worst of the films is The Wrong Man directed by Rockwell and starring his then wife Jennifer Beals as a wife who accuses Ted of being the reason she is tied up and held at gunpoint by her husband who thinks she is sleeping with Ted. Beals does have one good monologue about Ted's gigantic member and David Proval has a few laughs as Siegfried the jealous husband but overall this one wasn't good. The last half of the film is left to Rodriguez and Tarantino as the closer. This film came before From Dusk till Dawn, Sin City, and the Grindhouse films in other words before these two started collaborating on every project. Rodriguez's the Misbehavers is certainly a preview of his Spy Kids films with two very mischievous kids whose parents (one of whom is played by a funny Antonio Banderas) hire Ted to put the kids to bed before midnight while him and the wife spend a night on the town. Needless to say these kids aren't interested in going to bed on time but are interested in getting into as much trouble as possible. I will just say that needles and a hooker factor into the equation. Finally Tarantino directs the Man from Hollywood which is a remake of an old Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode. A note to Tarantino detractors it is not surprising that he writes himself the biggest role in this short film (even though it is the longest of all of them). So if you can't stand the Q.T. you probably aren't going to watch him "act" in this one. Anyway he plays the new hot Hollywood writer/director who has so much money he is willing to bet his beloved Cadillac in a bet which involves a lighter and a machete. Bruce Willis is uncredited in his role of Leo and Jennifer Beals, barefoot of course, also appears in this one as well. This is a fun effort from not just Tarantino but everyone involved. There is clever writing, fun performances, and just overall weirdness that make Four Rooms a fun nostalgia trip for fans of Rodriguez and Tarantino.
Rating: - Eye's of the Bell Boy
A look at what a bell boy see's in 4 rooms in a hotel on his first night on the job and nothing goes right. Including murder.
Rating: - No masterpiece, but very entertaining.
Taking place in a hotel this movie is about Ted the bell boys experience working alone on New Years Eve with four different rooms occupied by some rather eccentric guests, each room directed by a different director.
I wont go into a description of each room, its been done a few times already but I must admit the first two rooms were moderately funny if not slightly boring but if your like me dont let it discourage you give the movie a chance. The last two rooms are in my opinion worth the wait completely, in fact I went out and bought the dvd after renting it because of them, movies dont often make me cry from laughter. Tim Roth is an amazing actor in basically everything he is in but his expression and movement alone was enough to make me laugh. Apart from him Antonio Banderas and Quentin Tarantino were both exceedingly funny in this move, Banderas especially his room is by far the most hilarious. I would recommend this to anyone who loves Tim, Antonio or Quentin and to people who just generally laugh easily at stupid or random things.
Rating: - Classic Comedy
You know, I've seen this thing reviewed anywhere from one to five stars and I find that amusing. This is a classic comedy and one of those rare movies that simply gets better and better as it goes along. This is up there with Slapshot, No time for Sergeants, and A Night at the Opera. The moments that are clever and funny in this movie are as clever and as funny as a movie can get.
It's simply a movie about bellhop, played perfectly by Tim Roth, at a "on the way back" Hollywood Hotel on New Years Eve. Bruce Willis, Marisa Tomei, Kathy Griffin, Antonio Banderas, David Proval, Jennifer Beals and Tamlyn Tomita play their parts perfectly.
This is a movie you have to pay attention to if you want to get all the humor, much of it subtle. This is a no-brainer 5 star comedy. One fo the best comedies of all time.
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