Movie Review: Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
Synopsis: Four strangers check into the El Royale Hotel, located on the border of Nevada and California, at the same time. They all have different reasons for being there and some of them aren't who they claim to be. Who's in it? The movie stars Jeff Bridges , Dakota Johnson , Jon Hamm , Cynthia Erivo , Lewis Pullman and Chris Hemsworth . Review: I received the DVD of this movie from Netflix several weeks ago and, mostly because of the longer run time, never seemed to find time to watch it with my wife. We finally decided to watch it today and, while it wound up being better than I expected it to be, my overall opinion of it remains a bit mixed. The various characters, ranging from a woman (Johnson) who rescued her sister ( Cailee Spaeny ) from a cut leader (Hemsworth) to an aging ex-con with dementia trying to recover stolen money while posing as a priest, were interesting. I liked how the movie gradually gave each of them a back story that described how they wound up at t...