Bad Times at the El Royale
(2018)


This is an intense, very violent film.  This is also a film full of main characters, all with an arc and all with a personality. While most of the action either happens inside or in the dark, I never lost sight of the characters or their actions.

Darlene Sweet (played by Cynthia Erivo) was my favorite through the first 2/3 of the movie. However for the last third of the film, Miles Miller (played by Lewis Pullman) was really really good. There was a scene where he acted so strongly that dialogue was not even necessary (or possible) to make that scene work beautifully.

I left this film feeling that I needed to decompress as this film stays with you.