Four Rooms

**some spoilers** Four Rooms is a bit difficult to review because it consists of four separate episodes, which are directed by 4 different directors and the quality differs quite a lot. The first 2 episodes are pretty crap and worth between 3 and 4 out of 10. The last 2 however(directed by Rodriguez and Tarantino) consist of 8 and 9 out of 10 material. If you rent this on video you can just get to the good episodes right away and skip the first 2 episodes. Acting is quite good. Antonio Banderas, Bruce Willis and Quentin Tarantino deliver great performances. Many believe that Tarantino`s work is completely original, but it isn`t. He borrowed heavily from "City On Fire" when he made "Reservoir Dogs", and he borrows heavily from the short story "Man From The South" by Roald Dahl in his episode of Four Rooms. 6,5/10

I registered to this site especially to warn the world: don't waste your time on this movie. It seems to be the result of overconfident Hollywood producers who figured that some critical mass of props, make up, "atmosphere", homages and mannerisms can create a masterpiece. Or at least a watchable feature film. The result is a collection of four pointless sequences (definitely not "stories"), only the third of which is mildly entertaining. I know that almost 20 years after its production, very few people will come across this movie. However, if my review can deter even one human from throwing away 90 minutes of his/her life, it's worth the effort. Oh, and in case you're a fan of the "colossal failure" genre - this thing is not colossal in any sense. It doesn't even deserve sarcasm. Just ignore it.

Thank God for Roth's masterful interpretation of a bumbling bellhop...for it's the only thing that saves this film (or series of playlets that somehow fit together to make a film). Trust me, fast forward through Alison Anders' sequence with Madonna, Ione Skye...It's that awful! You'll thank me.

Maybe other people appreciate this, but if you are a fan of Zucker Abram Zucker type films (airplane etc.) or Ben Stiller movies, you won't find much to laugh about in this film. I didn't find anything save for (spoiler) the finger cutting off scene at the end, which is a twist on the way movies usually do things. Even that was not laugh out loud funny, more funny in the sense of "We are in on QT's joke about the film industry". Big Deal. This movie is worth it's 5.9 rating, i.e. it is below average. Don't bother. It must have gotten that rating for the elements of drama that it had, it seems that great comedies such as Austin Powers series etc. can't push more than mid 7s without having an element of "social significance" or drama as Dr Strangelove might have.

I've loved Four Rooms ever since I saw it. It's an excellent episode film, where each episode is weirder than the other. Even though there are four different directors for each part, they go along perfectly even though styles differ from each other. Also all have certain really weird kind of cheesy elements that go well with the weird stories, like really bad special effects and transitions between scenes or weirdly dramatic musical sound effects... If there's something I don't exactly like about this is that there's some overlap between the second and third segment. If it was done flawlessly, I'd be completely ready to accept it, but I have hard time trying to place the second segment The Wrong Man inside the third segment The Misbehavers. Still, Four Rooms is a hilarious comedy. It's over the top, but that doesn't matter, it goes well with the short stories.

I always loved this movie.. some segments are still better than others.. of course.. but Tim Roth is perfect and I contemplate other options that would work as Ted the Bellhop.. I can't come up with one.. he makes the entire movie.

What can I say I simply found it NOT to be funny at all. It's completely silly, almost slapstick like. This is drunk throwaway movie Tarantino trashed together with his pals, when he was on a high from the phenomenal succes of Pulp Fiction. Officially not a Tarantino movie although he did direct one episode of the 4 stories, which are all quite annoying to watch, because (again) it simply aint funny. The greatest comedy is created out of tragedy. This movie is pure nonstop silliness though. I hope they had a blast making it, because I cant imagine many wanna rewatch this again...

I missed this on initial release, despite being a fan of all four directors, and have somehow missed it on video/DVD/TV in the intervening years. With The Hateful Eight coming out soon I've been re-watching all of Tarantino's work so far and decided to fill in the one gap in my collection. I simply can't believe how bad this film is. Every bit of it fails. It's not funny, it's not interesting, it's not any good! From the opening cartoon titles and terrible music it felt poorly constructed. But that's nothing compared to the actors. Tim Roth is awful! His strangely mannered performance is embarrassing with no comic timing. You can't blame him entirely though. Everyone (with the exception of Jennifer Beals and Marisa Tomei) is terrible. Every line falls flat. I'm still in shock how awful the finished film is considering the talent involved. If you're a fan of Tarantino's, of any of the actors in this or of cinema in general avoid this like Ebola!