‘Hotel Artemis’ combines a lot of genres for a wild & fun ride

Posted on June 15, 2018

By MARK VIOLA

It’s rather rare to see a movie that wears its ifluences on its sleeve right out in the open and still manages to feel mostly original. Quentin Tarantino has made a career of doing just that, which is apt, because there is definitely a bit of Tarantino in “Hotel Artemis” — an action thriller about a group of criminals cooped up in an ultra-secret underground hospital set in a riot-torn Los Angeles of the near future.

The film is written and directed by Drew Pearce, who makes his feature directorial debut after helping to pen a handful of blockbusters, including “Iron Man 3” and “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.”In “Hotel Artemis,” he delivers an odd mix of the old and new. The entire film is set within an aging building seemingly unchanged from the 1920s, but outfitted with technology from the future to give it a science-fiction flavor that meshes surprisingly well.

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