Avis Metacritic

Though finally overwhelmed by a preening lassitude, Hotel is never less than fascinating.

Figgis still deserves credit for taking more artistic chances than a dozen ordinary directors.

Surprisingly enjoyable, even if you'd hesitate to call it a complete success. Indeed, Figgis expects you to sit back and roll with the pleasurable moments.

Long stretches of Mike Figgis' film are jaw-droppingly pretentious or painfully dull... Nevertheless, there are clever, funny, erotic and visually beautiful moments scattered throughout the film.

Though Hotel has brilliant moments, and an energetic first half, it falls away badly in the later stages.

As usual, Figgis coaxes moon-shooting performances, but all the furious improv lacks any sort of map.

A train wreck of a film whose chaotic, partly improvised story and too-tricky mix of film stocks, image sizes, split-screen effects and color/B&W footage overwhelm some phenomenally beautiful sequences and a memorable performance by Saffron Burroughs.

Much talking, much sex, much to-do about nothing.

Despite the bits that work brilliantly, the movie as a whole really only works as an experimental curiosity.

Figgis certainly was after something different, but like "Timecode," in which four linked stories unwind in separate panels, Hotel proves to be a fundamentally insipid bid at experimental narrative.