As the movie progresses, you can’t shake this feeling that all the drama and mystery won’t amount to much – and I am becoming increasingly aware that this is a common theme on all my reviews: they wind me up and let me down, but whatever. The secrets are slowly revealed in a series of “movies within a movie” (which, albeit not innovative, is still entertaining), and the show goes on. As more characters arrive to the hotel, the plot thickens, and a viewer may start to wonder what secrets do each of the new people hide and how are all the seven characters connected.
Right from the bat, you’d get this feeling that the movie’s slow starting pace would actually last for a good part of its running time. The movie starts out with a priest and a woman both arriving at the dual state casino/hotel El Royale. As it turns out, it wasn’t funny enough and not nearly as mysterious as it intended to be, but it is still a pretty enjoyable movie. Although it was a movie which did not get a huge amount of buzz, the trailer of Bad Times at the El Royale still promised good old fashioned fun, with a little mystery on the mix.
