The Review: Hotel Artemis

Hotel Artemis 4/10

This movie was not terrible. It just seemed like whoever directed Hotel Artemis was out of their depth. There is a really good cast of people including Jodie Foster, Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum, Charlie Day, Brian Tyree Henry, Jenny Slate, Dave Bautista, and Zachary Quinto. Foster runs this hotel for criminals where the rules are that no weapons are allowed, no non members, and no killing of guests. Picture that hotel from John Wick but not as good. I like those kinda rules like when criminals still have some sort of guidelines they have to go by. This movie however seemed to break all these rules in one night. It didn't seem. It did. During an insane night filled with riots and curfews the most feared man that owns the hotel shows up, Foster has to operate on him, and killers that know each other from the past just happen to all be there at the same time.

Who Should Be The Joker?

Ryan Gosling as The Joker?! Shut up and take my money! Well, that was being reported but then shut down because he didn't want to commit to the amount of films required. I previously wrote a blog about who the best Joker was (click here to read that). Later I wrote a Who Should Be? featuring some actors that I almost wanted to use for this. That time it was for Dr. Strange and it looks like one of the people I picked, Benedict Cumberbatch, will play him...possibly maybe.

Jared Leto is the next name being tossed out to play Joker in the Suicide Squad movie. I'm not sure how it will tie into the upcoming DC films. That is a lot of characters to introduce but if they do it anything like the animated version, Batman Assault On Arkham, which did a great job of showcasing the characters.

Joker is one of if not the most well known villains in comic books, cartoons, and movies. He is never played the same and anyone that would try to do what Heath Ledger did would be a bad idea. He didn't copy Jack Nicholson just as Nicholson didn't copy Cesar Romero.