2018 · sci-fi · crime · action
Hotel Artemis
Directed by Drew Pearce1h 34m2018
Los Angeles, June 21st, 2028. While the streets are being torn apart by riots, the Nurse, who runs a clandestine hospital for criminals in the penthouse of the Artemis, a closed old hotel, has a rough night dealing with troublemaker clients: thieves, assassins, someone from the past and the one who owns the place and the whole city.
Our read: Hotel Artemis (2018) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · crime · action entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured sci-fi / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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