A tight debut
Hotel Artemis4 starsDirector: Drew PearceStars: Jodie Foster, Sofia Boutella, Dave BautistaDuration: 94 minsClass: 15KRS Releasing Ltd
Hotel Artemis is an intense and intriguing little movie whose main character is known simply as Nurse (played by the ever-dependable Jodie Foster). Nurse runs the hotel in question, although the Artemis is certainly no ordinary hotel.
Situated in the heart of Los Angeles, the once-proud hotel now serves as a high-tech, clandestine hospital for criminals who can afford to be treated there. It is the year 2028, and the world seems to have arrived at the place it is clearly heading for right now. LA is a hotbed of violent activity as citizens protest for the basic right of clean water and the police brutally keep them at bay. Oh, and Trump’s border wall is up…
Yet, Nurse is less concerned with the outside world than what is going on in her inner sanctum. For it’s a particularly busy night – Sherman Atkins (Sterling K. Brown) and his brother Lev (Brian Tyree Henry) have just emerged from a severely botched bank heist, and Lev is seriously injured.
Nurse has just treated an enigmatic assassin (Sofia Boutella) and a smarmy arms dealer (Charlie Day) and...