Review: Hotel Artemis

Hotel Artemis(R)

Hotel Artemis caters to an unusual clientele, and a special membership is required merely to get through the
door. On your bed, you won't find a chocolate on your pillow, but, more likely, some blood stains from the previous guest.

The guests at the Artemis' 12th floor penthouse are wounded criminals in various stages of near-death
circumstances who were lucky enough to make it to the facility alive, and hold the appropriate membership card (Hint: It's not American Express). The medical staff consists of Nurse (Jodie Foster), who shuffles through the make-shift hospital as she patches up her visitors. Her devoted assistant, Everest ( ), keeps
reminding us that he is a “medical profession” and dutifullyobeys Nurses' instructions.

Enter two wounded bank robbers (Sterling K. Brown and Brian Tyree Henry) who are in dire need, and
you have the beginning of a rather pulp-style action drama. The place in a time continuum can be disorienting at first. The hotel is artdeco or earlier, the riots outside could be current, but the medical
technology employed by Nurse are definitely from the future, nano-bots, 3-D organ printing, laser instruments).

Soon we meet the other guests, but wenever really get to know them well. Their backstories are brief and

their circumstances are equally sketchy. Even the most notorious among them, Wolfking (Jeff Goldblum) get only a nod. The sexy assassin (Sophia Boutella) demands, and receives, attention as her special skills create some great action scenes.

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