Rent Four Rooms (2000)

2nd Half is brilliant - Four Rooms review by LE

I gave this five stars because it's worth seeing purely for 27 minutes of prime mid-90s Tarantino. His section is the most cinematic with amazing continuous takes within a single room, and bucketloads of his inimitable quickfire dialogue. Rodriguez's section is also very good and probably the most entertaining. When his section starts you can feel it turning into a proper film. Unfortunately the first part is poor and the second section is not much better. And, just as the film improves as it goes along, so does Tim Roth's performance which is, sad to say, awful for the first 45 minutes. He's an appalling comic actor, to the extent that I began to wonder if he'd actually ever seen a comedy before. It's pretty embarrassing. Fortunately in the hands of two great directors that's not so much of a problem, but under lesser talents he stinks the place out. I feel sad for Madonna who is far from the worst thing in her section but seemed to attract most of the contemporary criticism. That's misogyny for you, I suppose. So watch the first half of the film as a sort of universal humanitarian penance for the acting crimes of Tim Roth and you are then free to enjoy the second half for the exhilarating representation of 90s cinema that it is.

Funny easy watching - Four Rooms review by CP Customer

This was a funny film and a bit 'off the wall'

definately not one to watch in front of the children.

Wouldn't have been as good with an unknown cast as they were all hilarious. Would recommend this film

Pathetic - Four Rooms review by JD

The main character in the four unconnected stories is a waiter played by Tim Roth. He tries to be funny by adopting a manner similar to Rowen Atkinson in Mr Bean. This requires a comic talent that Mr Roth does not have and in any case generally appeals to the younger viewers who would not be watching an 18 rated film. Why is it 18 rated? There is a scene of bare breasted women dancing round a pool and a dead women under a bed next to a hypodermic syringe. Madonna cannot act, (in my opinion she is a fair dancer but her singing is as bad as her acting), and Bruce Willis's part does not suit him and he plays it poorly. There is absolutely nothing to recommend this farce.