Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) by Angelina68 — 04 Jul 2015

I think that Moonrise Kingdom was a masterpiece for the way in which it secured individual and quirky fantasy to our own world.

This film achieved no such thing, lacks any self reflexivity and is a self indulgent and wooden oddity which has drowned in its own treakly style.

I agree with a critic here that visually each frame, each mise en scene is superb and worthy of hanging on a wall but everything else which would make good cinema is missing.

The over stylized non-acting had me bored to death after 20 minutes. Having said this Fiennes was masterly in managing to create a human being however fantastical from this dull and format script.