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Bad Times at The El Royale is directed and written by Drew Goddard starring Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Cailee Spaeny, Lewis Pullman

Bad Times At The El Royale Movie Review

Bad Times At The El Royale Movie Review English Movie Review
Review for the film " Bad Times At The El Royale"
Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video
Runtime: 02 Hours 21 Minutes
Certificate: UA
Released: 12-10-2018
Genre: Thriller, Drama
4 / 5.00
3.53 / 5.0

CAST & CREW


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  • Producer:
  • Steve Asbell
  • Drew Goddard
  • Jeffrey Harlacker
  • Mary McLaglen
  • Jeremy Latcham
  • Cinematographer:
  • Seamus McGarvey
  • Editor:
  • Lisa Lassek
  • Writer:
  • Director:
  • Movie Actress:
  • Cynthia Erivo
  • Cailee Spaeny
  • Dakota Johnson
  • Costume Designer:
  • Danny Glicker
  • Art Director:
  • Lisa Van Velden
  • Michael Diner
  • Assistant Director:
  • Amanda Petura
  • Joel Cyr
  • Michael Bendner
  • Jason Halley
  • Matthew D. Smith
  • Chad Belair
  • Paul Barry
  • Regan Kosior
  • Jackson Ezard
  • Casting Director:
  • Carmen Cuba
  • Production Manager:
  • Vikas Naidu
  • Jason Miller
  • Cecil O\'Connor
  • Prashant Sharan
  • Sainath Shinde
  • Kevin J. Tighe
  • Sean Tighe
  • Production Designer:
  • Martin Whist
  • Set Decorator:
  • Hamish Purdy
  • Actor:
  • Austin James
  • James Quach
  • Nick Offerman
  • John Specogna
  • Stephen Stanton
  • Nick Ventra
  • Minn Vo
  • Vincent Washington
  • Camille Paulmier
  • Jon Hamm
  • Rebecca Toolan
  • Mark O\'Brien
  • Jim O\'Heir
  • Jeff Bridges
  • Cynthia Erivo
  • Bethany Brown
  • London Morrison
  • Alvina August
  • Gerry Nairn
  • Dakota Johnson
  • Charles Halford
  • Shea Whigham
  • Xavier Dolan
  • Lewis Pullman
  • Cailee Spaeny
  • Chris Hemsworth
  • Hannah Zirke
  • Billy Wickman
  • Charlotte Mosby
  • Sophia Lauchlin Hirt
  • Jonathan Whitesell
  • Synto D. Misati
  • Austin A.J. Abell
  • Katharine Isabelle
  • Sarah Smyth
  • David Cooke
  • Dan Falcone
  • Simon Farrell
  • Kate Gajdosik
  • Jocelyne Gaumond
  • Kimberly L. Jackson
  • Caroline Koziol
  • Richard Nixon
  • Tally Rodin
  • William B. Davis
  • Manny Jacinto
  • Sound Department:
  • Bobbi Banks
  • Jake Zuckerberg
  • Ryan Young
  • Bryon Williams
  • Bernard Weiser
  • Mark Purcell
  • Candice Todesco
  • Brian Tarlecki
  • John Soukup
  • Unsun Song
  • Brad Sokol
  • Julian Slater
  • Joel Shryack
  • Brian Peterson
  • Jack Cucci
  • Valerio Brini
  • Paul Bruski
  • Joe Cappelletti
  • Cary Clark
  • John T. Cucci
  • Craig Dollinger
  • Chris Duesterdiek
  • Casey Genton
  • Michael Kaleta
  • Steven Morrow
  • Dan O\'Connell
  • Thomas J. O\'Connell
  • Charles O\'Shea
  • Jason Oliver
  • Mark Paterson
  • Bradford Bell
  • Damon Schwabach-Morris
  • Music Department:
  • Harvey Mason Jr.
  • Dennis S. Sands
  • Ryan Rubin
  • Walter Rodriquez
  • Christopher Anderson-Bazzoli
  • Paul Apelgren
  • Erin Michael Rettig
  • Edward Atkatz
  • Brett Banducci
  • Clint Bennett
  • Eli Bennett
  • Phyllis St. James
  • Colin Stetson
  • Alan Kaplan
  • Patrick Houlihan
  • Ellen Ginsburg
  • Johnny Choi
  • Nicholas J. Cazares
  • Thomas Cavanaugh
  • Natalie Anderson
  • Eyvonne Williams
  • The Wildcardz
  • Booker White
  • Martin Tillman
  • Blitz//Berlin
  • Aleta Braxton
  • Warren Brown
  • Norman Ludwin
  • Kandace Lindsey
  • Mark LeVang
  • Edie Lehmann Boddicker
  • Briana Lee
  • Jeff Kryka
  • Stefan Karrer
  • Laura Jackman
  • Scott Hosfeld
  • Nayanna Holley
  • Opie Gruves
  • Danielle Engen
  • Baraka May
  • Katie Colley
  • Sadie Currey
  • George Doering
  • Monique Donnelly
  • Jasper Randall
  • Bobbi Page
  • Peter Nelson
  • Aaron Meyer
  • Mike McCoy
  • Martin McClellan
  • Darrin McCann
  • Joshua Fielstra
  • Art Department:
  • Jessica Aquila Cymerman
  • Sam Findlay
  • Glenn Foerster
  • Linda Ganderton
  • Adam Gaudet
  • Thomas J. Gaudet
  • Aidan Gray
  • Joel Hansen
  • Jason Hedley
  • Michelle Hendriksen
  • Sarah Hughes
  • Marcus Ireland
  • Kyle Irwin
  • Jack E. Johnson
  • Geoff Jordan
  • Jesse Joslin
  • Trevor Fieldhouse
  • John Erickson
  • Marcus Endean
  • Vaughan V. Baker
  • Russell Bobbitt
  • Derek Bobroff
  • David Stanley Brand
  • Nancy Anna Brown
  • David L. Bush
  • Scott Calderwood
  • Tony Castagnola
  • Niki Charalambopoulos
  • Colin Comeau
  • Robert Consing
  • Brian Cunningham
  • Andrea Dance
  • David Dowling
  • Dean Eilertson
  • Kevin Kasper
  • Milena Zdravkovic
  • Tyler Page
  • Ryan Ostiguy
  • Audra Neil
  • Mark Morgan
  • Gaby Miègeville-Little
  • Russell Mastine
  • Darren Marshall
  • Ksenia Markova
  • Hugo Mallory
  • Sunil Pant
  • Joseph Aaron Parker
  • James Reddy
  • Benoit Waller
  • Stephen Vance
  • Sarah Vallim
  • Larry Szaroz
  • Shannon Stensrud
  • Mark Stainthorpe
  • Erin Sinclair
  • Dennis Simard
  • Glen Schroeder
  • Spencer Louttit
  • Terry Lewis
  • D. Martin Myatt
  • Mike Keel
  • John Kobylka
  • Thierry Labbe
  • Jason B. Landels
  • Chris Lewis
  • Pier Laurenza
  • empty:
  • Louise Hradsky
  • Brian Ho
  • Kai Hirvonen
  • Leif Havdale
  • Lars Grant
  • Darin Fujimori
  • Valerie Fraser
  • Lani Gelera
  • Landon Jackle
  • Peter Jang
  • Jake Loube
  • Sam Looc
  • Nick Longhurst
  • Bobby Holland Hanton
  • Chris Link
  • Will Leong
  • Samuel Le
  • Trevor Jones
  • Lucius Fairburn
  • David Edgar
  • Cassandra Ebner
  • Lloyd Cunningham
  • Fraser Corbett
  • Arnold Chon
  • Colby Chartrand
  • Steve Chang
  • Loyd Catlett
  • Janene Carleton
  • Clint Carleton
  • Dan Brown
  • Rob \'Sluggo\' Boyce
  • Lloyd Barachina
  • Nicole Babb
  • Ed Anders
  • Robert Alonzo
  • Krista Bell
  • Christina de la Cruz
  • Conner Deadrick
  • Duane Burkhart
  • Jimmy Lui
  • Maya Macatumpag
  • John Stoneham Jr.
  • Rorelee Tio
  • Dimitri Tsoy
  • David Wald
  • Michael Washlake
  • Danny Wayne
  • Chris Webb
  • Billy Wong
  • Marcus Young
  • Scott J. Ateah
  • Heath Stevenson
  • Sam Situmorang
  • Todd Scott
  • Mike McCooey
  • Tammy Nera
  • Chris O\'Hara
  • Casey O\'Neill
  • Jonathan Osland
  • Gerald Paetz
  • Peter Park
  • Allen Quindiagan
  • Rex Reddick
  • Phillip Kane Rhee
  • Special Effects:
  • Garth Steinheimer
  • Mike Splatt
  • Matt Sleep
  • Ron Seida
  • Dennis Bentivengo
  • Ken Reynolds
  • Albert F. Seibert
  • J.D. Streett
  • Daniel Sudick
  • Corie Tornack
  • James Kozier
  • Dan Cervin
  • Doug Cousens
  • Garnet Harry
  • Richard Connor
  • Joel Whist
  • Visual Effects:
  • Matthew Robert Walker
  • Prasad Wharavadekar
  • Christal Wolgamott
  • Ahmed Yousry
  • Meena Yu
  • Jorge Zavala
  • Shawna Zegarra
  • Nicole Clarke
  • Alex Conor Harrison
  • Amit Jaiswar
  • Radley Teruel
  • Vanessa Velasquez
  • Siddharth Malviya
  • Patel Vikas
  • Andrew Van Midde
  • Doron Kipper
  • Joshua Hakim
  • Viktoria Gutheil
  • Shreyas Gujrati
  • Anthony Grant
  • K.G. Ginu
  • Shivesh Gehlot
  • Anton Agerbo
  • David W. Allen
  • Juan Alvarez
  • Abhishek Amin
  • George Arun
  • Pradeep Arya
  • Michael S. Harbour
  • Harishkumarv
  • John Kincannon
  • Sagar Khorasia
  • Resha Kambli
  • Koustubha Kaloti
  • Toji Mathew Joseph
  • Adam Johannesson
  • Mehul Jhaveri
  • Tankodra Jaykishan
  • Dhuha Isa
  • Sacha Husband
  • Spencer Howson
  • Tushar Hote
  • Oliver Atherton
  • David Aughenbaugh
  • Lester Chin
  • Eric D. Christensen
  • Chad E. Collier
  • Janice Barlow Collier
  • Joseph Conover
  • Marlon Cowan
  • Kaushik Dasgupta
  • Mahesh Desai
  • Pranay Dharmapuri
  • Prashant Dhotre
  • Michael Dillon
  • Juan Flores
  • Nicholas Cerniglia
  • Gavin Carlton
  • Aakash Bairi
  • Priyanka Balasubramanian
  • Ryan Basaraba
  • Sanyam Basran
  • Damien Bent
  • Brad Betschart
  • Dheeraj Bhadani
  • Indranil Bhattacharya
  • Yogesh Bhavsar
  • Peter Bowmar
  • Charles Bunnag
  • Wes C. Caefer
  • Jigar Chauhan
  • David Van Dyke
  • Tushar Shah
  • Seshaprasad
  • Steven J. Scott
  • Bikram Sarkar
  • Rohit Sardesai
  • Akash Roy
  • Taylor W. Rockwell
  • Bastien Rivas
  • Jordan Rice
  • Kevin Razo
  • Jeremy Preissner
  • Mahajan Prashant
  • Mohan Ponraj
  • Swanand Phadnis
  • Suman Paul
  • Viren Shah
  • Sabiha Shaikh
  • Samsher Shaikh
  • Michele C. Vallillo
  • Shashank Thakur
  • Wilson Tang
  • Abhijeet Suryawanshi
  • Sukhmeetanand
  • Russ Sueyoshi
  • Shane Strickman
  • Nitin Singh
  • Ganesh B. Singh
  • Vishnu Simha
  • Scott Aaron Silver
  • Javed Siddiqui
  • Kevin Shimamoto
  • Emad Sheikh
  • Aurora Shannon
  • Mundel Shaurya
  • S. Gopi Krishna
  • Juan Melgoza
  • Jennifer Mochinski
  • Buchi Ramulu Narsingoju
  • Rohan Parmar
  • Nikhil Parab
  • Suvesh Panda
  • Ben Outerbridge
  • C. Michael Neely
  • Naveenprabhu
  • Chad Meire
  • Himanshu Meena
  • Shane Meehan
  • Dan Kunz
  • Aaron Lucas
  • Melaina Mace
  • Firoz Kumar Mahto
  • Richard Malzahn
  • Amit Mazumder
  • Ranadeep Mandal
  • Vishal Kumar
  • empty:
  • Danna Rutherford
  • Ailsa Macmillan
  • Lynnea Board
  • Kristin Arrigo
  • Joanna Mireau
  • Vince Yoshida
  • Lilia Afsahi
  • Luca Vannella
  • Steven R. Soussanna
  • ShabyRazi
  • Connie Parker
  • Anne Carroll
  • Megan Harkness
  • Sandy Lindala
  • Toby Lindala
  • Barbara Lorenz
  • Thomas Nellen
  • Camera Department:
  • Andrew Towson
  • Gladys Tong
  • Rod Tigler-Wybrandi
  • John Taylor
  • Mike Stroman
  • Troy James Sobotka
  • Jeff Snyder
  • Mackenzie Smith
  • Spencer Village
  • Doarian Webb
  • Mark Spath
  • Andrew Selkirk
  • Namowan Kirby
  • Kurt Zelmer
  • Jessica Yi
  • Adriene Wyse
  • Peter Wilke
  • Aaron Wik
  • Lance White
  • Drey Jordan Singer
  • Tyrone Bennett
  • Conor Davis
  • Nicholas Dent
  • Ian Kerr
  • Eric Kyle Deshazo
  • Stan Dim
  • Cameron Drinkle
  • David Emmerichs
  • Tyson Esau
  • Tammy Fouts
  • Ryan Copeland
  • Eldon Coney
  • Smail Bestybay
  • Jeffery Bjorgum
  • Matt Bonin
  • Marco Bossow
  • Keith Brooks
  • Scott Campbell
  • M. Shane Cates
  • Maya Chang
  • Dave McIntosh
  • Niall Fraser
  • Kimberly French
  • Tony Hyland
  • Geoff Kennedy
  • Mike Kirilenko
  • Patrick Kirkland
  • Christian Kozak
  • Scott Kozak
  • Steve Krasznai
  • Doug Lavender
  • David Lourie
  • Spencer Horita
  • Ben Holden
  • Ray Garcia
  • Lee Gibeau
  • Stuart Haggerty
  • Rod Hamilton
  • Rod Haney
  • Tyler Higgins
  • Erik F. Hill
  • Montgomery Hill
  • Todd Hlagi
  • Mathew J. Margolis
  • Todd Schlopy
  • Cory Peters
  • Rodrigo Carcamo Parga
  • Peter Pacula
  • Chris Napolitano
  • Ryan Monro
  • Jason Misewich
  • David McIntosh
  • Maya Batten-Young
  • Sergio Petre
  • Leon Serginson
  • Brian Scannell
  • Robin Say
  • Armand Santos
  • Luze Issa Rubio
  • Mighty Dan Robinson
  • Alex Reno
  • Dana Powers
  • Daniel Pierce
  • Jason J. Rodriguez
  • Andy Clyne
  • Andrew \'Drew\' Coupar
  • Mark G. Alexander
  • Sean Oxenbury
  • Stephen Arnott
  • Brad Baker
  • Drew David
  • Greg Beaton
  • empty:
  • James D. Dever
  • Mandy Butler
  • Patrick J Miller
  • John Eric Bentley
  • Richard David Lecoin
  • Dominic Dobrzensky
  • Tina Dawson
  • Ellie Davis
  • Corine Buffel
  • Paul Bois
  • Chelsea Billett
  • Jimmy Campbell
  • Cesar Castillo
  • Loyd Catlett
  • Avery Clyde
  • Miles Cozart
  • Jennifer Capriccio
  • Justin Delima
  • Judy Dickerson
  • Clayton Alexander Durie
  • Peter Brown
  • Sam Riegel
  • Lisa Rhyne
  • Wayne Price
  • Ricardo Plaza-Rosselot
  • Anna Perzel
  • Rick Pasqualone
  • Michael Paik
  • Andrew Duggan Pace
  • Kory Orban
  • Peter Oldring
  • Fabio Novitsky
  • Long Nguyen
  • Lee Anne Muldoon
  • Chrissy Mozylisky
  • Andrew Morgado
  • Lindsay Schnebly
  • Oliver Scott
  • Melony Anderson
  • Rebecca Zhang
  • Larry Zanoff
  • Wanwanach \'Char\' Worrarakkit
  • Vincent Washington
  • Sarah Vhet
  • Jarik Van Sluijs
  • David Tressel
  • Matt Towstyka
  • Quay Terry
  • Bernadette Tanchauco
  • Michelle Stefani
  • Stephen Stanton
  • Lindsey Spaulding
  • Misha Shumaker
  • Angel Laketa Moore
  • Tim Monich
  • Dylan Jenkinson
  • Christopher Jenkins
  • Sarah Jarvis
  • Jeremy Hubert
  • Pat Hotaling
  • Vien Hong
  • Kate Higgins
  • Nicholas Hargous
  • Devin Gunenc
  • Aaron Grist
  • Colin Greten
  • Christopher J. Green
  • Jonathon Gauthier
  • Mollie Freeman
  • Rob Fournier
  • Keely Johnson
  • Mark Jones
  • David Mizera
  • Matthew Minnium
  • Lee McNish
  • Nan McNamara
  • Benjamin Lockman
  • Angela Lewis
  • Eloy Lara
  • Janet Lane
  • Michael Lafuente
  • Thom Kyle
  • Mak Konwick
  • Kelly Konno
  • Mollie Knopf
  • Lizzy Jane Klein
  • Kela Kelln
  • Joerg Everding
  • Chelsea Babcock
  • Pallas Pace
  • Dee Camp
  • Sidney LeClaire
  • Katie Emma Affleck
  • Ethan Attrell
  • Casting Department:
  • Candice Elzinga
  • Martina Smyth
  • Leslie Wasserman
  • Emma Raine Walker
  • Samantha Montgomery
  • Charley Medigovich
  • Kristen Licas
  • Megan Bayliss
  • Michael Bendner
  • McKenzie Brodnick
  • Tracy Dixon
  • Sandra-Ken Freeman
  • Joseph Hicks
  • empty:
  • Jana MacDonald
  • Rosalie Lee
  • Mitchell Mackey
  • Mariana Mah
  • Laszlo Marton
  • Carly Mcauley
  • Leana McGregor
  • Karen McVey
  • Susan O\'Hara
  • Caroline Patterson
  • Nu Quan
  • Briana Scott
  • Lana S. Krause
  • Tina Ning Hsu
  • Kathy Houghton
  • Tessa Armstrong
  • Susan L. Bertram
  • Cora Burnette
  • Matthew Carey
  • Courtney Daniel
  • Grace Delahanty
  • Christina Dietterle
  • Alexis Forte
  • Denise Gingrich
  • Sarah Baxter
  • Silke Guglielmo
  • Koreen Heaver
  • Holly Anderson
  • Kristen Bond
  • Morgan Spry-Young
  • Samantha Stroman
  • Katri Tahvanainen
  • Patrice Yapp
  • Katie Mackenzie Gursel
  • Chris Van Duyn
  • Denise Woodgerd
  • Bob Schneider
  • Scott Wesley Ross
  • Eric A. Lewy
  • Thom Kyle
  • Matt Gough
  • Brian Chandler
  • Patrick J. Barry
  • Iman Ahad
  • Ladd Lanford
  • Mark Jones
  • Barry L. Caldwell
  • Susan Lambie
  • Alicia Kafka
  • Thanks:
  • Colleen Goddard
  • Caroline Hope Williams
  • Tess Laurence
  • Harlowe Hope
  • Laurence Goddard
  • Caroline Williams
  • empty:
  • Soham Parmar
  • Suku Sibi.K.
  • Location Management:
  • Shasta Kinney
  • Josh Pickens
  • Daniel Kutner
  • Beth Charlesworth
  • Alexandre Chen
  • Jason Collier
  • Sean Patrick Finnan
  • Rino Pace
  • Jordan Schmidt
  • Scott Trimble
  • Christie Hazlet
  • James Giddy
  • empty:
  • Tom Katinic
  • Blue Angus
  • Paris Haase
  • Paul Irvine
  • James Ivanovich
  • Andrew Anderson
  • Criss Mavian
  • Jonathan Jakubec
  • Corey Tufts

Bad Times at The El Royale is directed and written by Drew Goddard Drew Goddard is a well-known American film and TV >> Read More... starring Jeff Bridges Jeff Bridges is a movie actor as well as a produce >> Read More... , Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson Dakota Johnson is an American actress and model. S >> Read More... , Jon Hamm Jonathan Daniel Hamm is an actor, producer, and di >> Read More... , Cailee Spaeny, Lewis Pullman and Chris Hemsworth A “heartthrob” and total madness of women from “do >> Read More... . It is edited by Lisa Lassek under the production of TSG Entertainment and Goddard Textiles.

Plot

The film is a neo-noir thriller with a collection of sinister stories, with each character playing a role. The El Royale is a hotel where all such mysteries are weaved. A group of individuals is brought together at the hotel, separated by a line between "California" and "Nevada," and what transpires is chaos incarnate as things get violent and destructive with every person's true history being revealed. The characters come to terms with their mysterious pasts. The plot is nonlinear, with multiple characters shedding light on their own backstories. The added subplots, such as the Vietnam War, the Manson Family, and Hoover’s FBI issues, are the pasts of the characters shaping their reality in the El Royale Hotel.

Star Performance

The richly drawn characters of Jeff Bridges add a suspicious tone to moral dilemmas, whereas Dakota Johnson plays the role of a woman with a secret agenda. The performances across the board are stellar, with none being a weak link and Chris Hemsworth stealing the show with his appearance on the screen, and Cynthia Erivo, Jon Hamm, and Lewis Pullman have played the roles of damaged souls in the film.

Analysis

The movie unfolds in a dark and suspenseful tone, exploring the themes of redemption, guilt, and morality. The visuals of the movie display an aesthetic retro 1960s vibe. With the multiple character threads, it becomes difficult to plot the narrative structure. However, it keeps the audience reserved and, on task, continually decodes the film. It takes time to build up the story in the first half of the movie, but as it progresses, it tries to pace up gradually. The added subplots, such as the Vietnam War, the Manson Family, and Hooever’s FBI issues, serve as added digressions in an already prolonged film. It encapsulates all the characters with complex personality-building and offers diverse narratives in the genres of mystery and thriller. The movie keeps the audience engaged by making them connect the dots and keeping their interest alive throughout the movie.

What’s There?

  • Suspense, thrill and mystery are in tandem in the film.
  • Stellar performance of actors is an open testimony of excellence in the movie.
  • Strong language, nudity and use of drugs is quite evident throughout the tale.

What’s Not There?

  • A short and crisp storyline without prolonged delay in the climax could have been done.
  • Linear narrative is absent making it difficult for audience to contemplate the storyline with multiple subplots.
  • A two-hour film would have sufficed the story without any unnecessary chaos.

Verdict

The use of dark humour and anticipation is beautifully fabricated in the film. It would be a good watch for those searching for a perfect suspense-filled and mind-engaging movie with a long yet complex storyline.


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