It's 1969 Lake Tahoe on the border between California and Nevada. El Royale is an empty destination motorlodge with its best days well behind it. Four strangers check in with the hotel's only employee Miles Miller. Catholic priest Daniel Flynn, singer Darlene Sweet, salesman Laramie Seymour Sullivan, and Emily Summerspring arrive with some hiding secrets.
This is a stylish pulpy noir action thriller from Drew Goddard. I do like most of it but there is a little too much of it. I'm not sure if it needs the tape. There're like two MacGuffins. Concentrating on one MacGuffin usually works better. When Billy Lee shows up, it gets to be craziness overload. At that point, I want the characters to gather in one place and have a climatic conflict. I don't really want to insert another character. Drew obviously expects that more is better. It's a little too more.
This is a stylish pulpy noir action thriller from Drew Goddard. I do like most of it but there is a little too much of it. I'm not sure if it needs the tape. There're like two MacGuffins. Concentrating on one MacGuffin usually works better. When Billy Lee shows up, it gets to be craziness overload. At that point, I want the characters to gather in one place and have a climatic conflict. I don't really want to insert another character. Drew obviously expects that more is better. It's a little too more.