2/10
Watch the superior Hotel Coolgardie
16 October 2023
Warning: Spoilers
A film very loosely based on the disturbing hotel Coolgardie documentary.

Normally films based on documentaries go all out using it as a source only.

Or the other way try to remake it into a film without adding anything only taking away the elements that made it successful.

Here there is no can man.

No character no person who has any non self serving purpose.

Every character is a walking cliche.

The two supposed mates seem to be strangers and don't appear to have any bond or care for each other in any way.

Neither 2 main actors display the anguish or loneliness of their situation location. Isolation is a bygone concept here.

Black haired one seems to be enjoying her time right up until the last 15 minutes.

That Hulking piece of human waste from the doco is recast as someone roughly the same height as the 2 leads none of his real world menace just over the top psycho here.

The end couldn't be more over the top or far fetched, burn down a pub the only pub for hundreds of ks and the locals cheer you on for doing it no escape next people they see will be furious locals or the cops.

No buses or trains.

Give it a miss unless you haven't watched the doco but I'd recommend the doco truly horrifying.
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