28 Hotel Rooms (2012)

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Normally I'm not a fan of infidelity in films. I think monogamy is ideal and my feelings haven't changed. But 28 Hotel Rooms brings up the question "Can you be in love with more than one person at the same time?" What if you're a happy relationship and unexpectedly meet a person who MIGHT be your soulmate? Do you stay in your stable relationship while you pine for someone else? Do you leave that relationship for the new person that you have known for a much more briefly? Maybe it's not black and white.

There is no story or plot to this movie! It's a look into human nature in marriage - but here we see the entire spectrum of the husband and wife in two individuals who meet for sexual pleasure - at first!The beginning - hot heavy thrill of first nighting! But this can last only so long. Then starts the comfortable time just being together - sex is an aside thing - nice but not necessary.As the relationship continues it's not long until more is wanted from each partner. What that 'more is' one partner is usually unwilling to give into - compromising begins. At some point resentment steps in and things begin to fall apart in the relationship.Beautifully told by Matt Ross this movie has something in it for anyone that has loved or tried to love. It's all the same, humans go through stages in friendships, brief romances, marriage! And this movie is a grand look into it.The ending may seem odd - but I interpret it as nothing will actually change and their 'romance/sex thing' will slip away and they will get on with their lives.We are just given a peek at it .................

I would not have chosen this movie but woke up to it in the middle of the night - and was quickly hooked. The characters are wonderful to get to know as they increasingly get to know each other, and delightfully free of self-pity or narcissism. The device they use to go from scene to scene is a black out followed by a new room number which is the scene of their next tryst. That device cleverly moves the action along a continuum of character development and maturing of their relationship without ever bogging down in an overly heavy dialog. Both actors have that kind of cinematic face which is fun to watch and never boring. Best thing I can say about this movie, though, is that it was written, produced, directed, and acted with an intelligence all too rarely found in today's American movies. And not a single car chase, explosion, or blood spattered body! No wonder it wasn't advertised by the studio!

28 Hotel Rooms starts as it intrigues. The title itself is kinda kinky. So does the sequences. More than 40% of the movie is either sex, blunt nudity and laziness.Chris Messina is dapper as he perfectly portrays the role of a new writer who has just entered the business, while Miss Ireland acts dumb till the climax. Her sleek bod was a ten-o-ten for the role. The chemistry between them is far-fetched and is authentic but the screenplay sometimes goes into monotony and although it is related, I yawned thrice or twice. Conversations go boring through the middle as the story suffocates 'tself to advance. And finally, when it advances, it a chilled climax rather than one would expect after all those heated, naughty bedroom encounters.One should expect lots of sex, nudity (top-to-toe) and conversational prose in this honest movie as the hard-ons and orgasms and the emotions are true to be reel. It is little boring to spend 80 minutes watching a perhaps known story where they tried to add some erotica but fail... utterly.BOTTOM LINE: It is not a must-watch, but if you find to get the DVD, you may give it a try because somewhere between the lines, there is a message about adultery/promiscuity hidden.Can be watched with a typical Indian family? NOLanguage: Mediocre | Sex: Very Critical | Nudity: Infinity | Alcohol: Critical | Smoking: No | Drugs: No | Vulgarity: Strong | Violence: Mild | Gore: No