Saw the movie with much expectations since I am a Wenders lover. I left the movies' with a strange feeling. Not a bad movie, not a good movie. What stroke me most was the soundtrack: I felt it had not much to do with the movie and with Wenders. I loved photography. Think the cast was good, except for Mel Gibson... Still quite slow. Felt the story itself was not important. I am happy I have seen it and probably I will it see a second time, but the million dollar hotel will not be THE movie, but remain a movie. Sorry for Bono, good attempt but not enough. Still the soundtrack by itself is really good.

This for sure one of those movies where you will "get it" or you won't. I liked The Million Dollar Hotel right from the first time I watched it and I did rewatch it a few times.

A rating of 5.9 (at the moment of writing my review) is of course a sad fact - if I compare that rating with all those top-ratings of 8+ for all those shallow, boring, at most mediocre and artless blockbusters Hollywood and companies like Marvel/DC mass publish in our days.

There is a chance you will enjoy The Million Dollar Hotel a lot - if you like sometimes an unusual dish served with some humor and melancholy - if not, well, I take any bet you wasted your time on far worse movies.

I avoided this film, because of the bad criticism it got in the newspapers. But then I decided to see it at a low price cinema. And I thought, it wasn't all that bad as the critics said. I admit that one has to be in the right mood for this film, and I might alter my judgment, if I saw it a second time. But this time, I enjoyed the way it showed me how colorful life can be, even if it is a difficult and not generally admired one. Each well played character has a different story to tell, and one has to think a little about them. In the end, I took a lot of positive thoughts home. But you have to let yourself go, otherwise you will be disappointed.