THE ROYAL HOTEL Movie Review **SPOILER ALERT** 

As an Australian woman who has worked in rural Australian pubs, I felt the authenticity of Hannah's experience in my bones. I'm a way more assertive person, so I'm much better at keeping that sort of behaviour in check. But when you're in a bar full of them, the danger and stress is real. AND, I've been in plenty of similar dangerous situations.

Yes we can all feel unsafe at times but women feel unsafe all the time!!!

I’ve discovered so many movies through you guys that I normally wouldn’t have found out about until way later! I appreciate that you cover stuff that’s sent to the big theaters but also give a fair shake to stuff that normally doesn’t get covered that widely.

I was so tense throughout this! Anyone have any thoughts on what the phone call from the British girl was all about? Maybe it was just to make us even more tense?

Oh man, you guys have to see the documentary Hotel Coolgardie, that this movie is based on. What a story

This was a great review. I definitely want to see it and the docu Hotel Coolgardie. Having personally traveled in Western Australia near some of the mining towns, I can't imagine being a young woman trying to eke out a living in some of those places. 😮😊

I just saw this movie today and I found it fascinating how we kept switching perspective from Hannah (this is all creepy and scary) to Liv (this is all good times) until the ending, at which point I realized it's a movie full of tension with very little drama

“Mmhm are you ok??” 😂😂

Well that’s funny that Americans are being told to say they’re from Canada when travelling because other countries like Canadians better 😆

Great review! I tend to agree more with Joseph. The movie was effective at being unsettling, creating a sense of relentless dread throughout. But it became frustrating for me because it continued to amount to not much. It’s not like I wanted harm to come to these women, but at a certain point I felt like the movie was pulling my chain. Maybe I didn’t like the threat of sexual violence being used so coyly. And the choices of some of the characters, especially Liz, seemed ridiculous. I then watched the documentary Hotel Coolgardie, streaming on Prime, to find out the real story. I knew the crowd-pleasing ending of the movie couldn’t have happened. I found the documentary disappointing as well, but for different reasons. For one, it was less a documentary and more of a feature length episode of a reality TV show. All parties involved agreed to be filmed the whole time, thus lowering the stakes. The filmmakers weren’t really going to let either of these girls be harmed while the cameras rolled. The whole thing felt bogus, with everyone “performing” for the camera. Situations seemed to be manufactured by the filmmakers for maximum drama, such as the girls reluctantly agreeing to go on dates (plural!) with various locals. The men in the doc are drunk, rude, and misogynist, but nowhere near as sexually menacing as depicted in this film. They seemed more obnoxious than outright dangerous. I understand why the movie had to invent a more sensational third act, I just wished it had gone even further, or had the courage to be more of a downer, like a cautionary tale.

I was excited to find this was made in my state. To be honest, if I lived this remote in Australia, I think I would be losing my mind a little, too. The closest I got was a very regional city and even that was quite isolating. Its a good setting for the claustrophobia and dread.

what was the whole reference about with the one british girl getting her hat and then the weird phone call from Jules that Hannah gets?

I was just about to DM you guys to do this one!!! So excited!

Ooh, the lyrics from Hotel California, for years, just loving the catchy 'chorus/hook' was enough...Liked how many ways your comments 'match' the mixed under currents (or frustrations!) for this movie's arc😊

I think they just wanted to put emphasis on how women are treated in some parts of the world even today. Which is sad. The minute they stepped foot in that place, they were in danger. They had three options, they either let themselves go with the flow and become like the british girls, or live in denial till something happens to them like Liv because if it weren't for hannah, she would have gone through some shit there, or you fight them like Hannah did "sort of".

Seems like, including the title, like an antithesis of all the glamorous travel instagram young people

Great review guys I can't wait to check it out .I just finished Hotel Coolgardie and yeaaaa that was an experience. I have never paused a movie so much in my life I just couldn't believe the things I was seeing!

Everything about this movie is so real

Caught the Hotel California reference😂

I completely agree, I think this movie was solid but it never stuck the landing. It kept implying danger but never quite executed it.

This sounds interesting. I'll have to look up the documentary then watch the film. Never second guess that intuition its a life saver. Thank you 😊

Great video! 🎉

I enjoy your review

Thank you for a great review! This left me more satisfied than this movie ever could 😆

also the interaction with the grocer shows the sort of undercurrent of racism in australia, hanna tries to have a genuine conversation with the grocer and matty interupts this interaction to almost infantalise him

In real life Jessica Henwick could kick all of the mens asses.

If this film has Hugo Weaving in it I'm game for seeing it.

Daniel Henshall was great in Catch the Fair One too but outa here since I am going to see Royal Hotel tonight. You guys are great. UPDATE: Just saw this flick and I do know what Joseph mean about the script being such that your frustration level peaks. That being said, I feel like it successfully made me feel how vulnerable it must be to be a woman and as someone who has two daughters I find myself unimaginably hating men (the group) once they turned around 16 /17. By the way, I tried to watch a few youtube videos of the documentary this was based of and because it is a documentary it seriously made my stomach turn. Much worse experience than this movie. Anyways you guys rock.

Nick’s quote is becoming a synopsis y’all

the entire movie is female dread, as a aussie its very realistic in showing the misogyny in australia

Teeth was hot as hell🔥

See You Next Thursday!!! ☠️ This movie, while it sounds interesting, may be a little too dark/dreadful for me. As always, I greatly appreciate your reviews!! Thank you!

I felt the movie had great promise. I really enjoyed the set up, some of the guys were exuding "villain" vibes.. but then it never really comes to anything. I felt like the ending fell flat, which was a shame. P.S. If Jessica Henwick wasn't actually drunk during the filming of this movie, hats off to her 🤣

spoiler, see below my fave part parts needed further interpretation but i enjoyed the vagueness as it allowed me to think and mediate on the themes further: i liked how they broke the glass jars/freed the snakes at the end as it was obvious they were planted to scare the girls and make them rely on the men and symbolic as how the men viewed the woman as property to be controlled i hope that makes sense?

I love how everyone feels let down that they didn't get to see the girls get hurt. Says a lot about us.

Great review. Just finished watching this movie..I wanted more from the female characters..the story just fizzled..I wanted them to humiliate the disgusting men …I live in Melbourne .. I have worked in bars . However, there is no way that i would ever, stay in a remote community in rural Australia. Hell no. I hate Aussie pub culture, anyway…but these patrons were terrifying, to a young, vulnerable woman. It’s a great film to show your young daughters, if they want to explore the world, work in very remote communities..they may rethink it…

This movie does an excellent job of building tension and doing nothing with it. The acting is terrific all around but it's used on an average movie. You know what really could have turned this movie around? If while struggling over the axe, Hannah is accidentally killed. I thought that's what happened, but then she got up. Okay movie. Could have been way better.

What happened to the September review?

I am a extra in this movie im one of the miners in the pub 😊

Lol I think she just destroyed our tourist industry but I loved it and this is how it is that's very realistic.

Liv was frustrating me so much throughout the whole thing. I wish the ending hadnt felt so rushed but I really loved it as a whole. Hope you both are wonderful

Ending reminded me of the shining

I understood the movie. It made you fear of what Hanna was going thru as a female by putting her in situations ( normal) that us guys might find normal but to others it can. Be harmful.

i walked out of it... hated it

Watch it yesterday. Nothing relevant happening all over the intering movie. It is not bad but in the same time is dispensable.

Watched this last night , lame movie that doesn't make sense. Wish i can get my money back

It's not terrible but it's definitely a let down IMO.

I saw this movie on Saturday at my local independent movie theater I love going to see Oscar movies at but I just now watched this review. I was just not a fan of the film. I'm going to kinda spoil stuff so don't read if you haven't seen it yet and want to. It was pretty boring and I kept expecting something 'scary' to happen based on the limited stuff I knew about the plot and from the trailer. But nothing really did. I was never scared so I'm shocked that some people were watching any moment of the movie behind their fingers. Like WTF it's not a scary movie let alone some movie with gore in it like Saw X... Julia Garner's character Hannah overreacted to a lot of stuff that happened in the movie. And her friend Liv played by Jessica Henwick was mostly chill until she got plastered and became a useless liability. The characters really were just messes and I didn't care about them much. The dude named Teeth played by James Frecheville was the best character and sadly for him was a nice guy who finished last. Toby Wallace's character Matty was also the highlight of the movie. Third place goes to Ursula Yovich as Carol the mostly sweet chef for the hotel. The ending was dumb. I hope they end up getting arrested for burning down The Royal Hotel. Drunk idiots deserved to be punished! I figured the audience score of 42% being SO much lower than the Rottentomatoes score of 92% was because men review bombed it since going into it I knew it was focusing on toxic masculinity... But if that actually happened or not then I can't even blame them because that big of a difference in the scores should have warned me to not pay to see this movie... So me feeling letdown and unsatisfied after leaving the theater is on me because I was warned and should have saved my money for this Thursday to see a movie I'm very hyped for in Anatomy of a Fall.

Just saw the movie. IT SUCKED!!!!!

The movie was terrible terrible

Are you guys gonna see the exorcist