The Royal Hotel

2023

Action / Drama / Thriller

37
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 37% · 150 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 37% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 16313 16.3K

friendship tourist female friendship workplace alcoholism sexual harassment

Plot summary

After running out of money while backpacking in a tiny, male-dominated town in the Australian outback, two friends resort to a working holiday at the Royal Hotel. When the locals' behavior starts crossing the line, the girls find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that grows rapidly out of their control.

Director

Kitty Green Photo
Kitty Green

Top cast

Jonathan auf der Heide Photo
Jonathan auf der Heide as Policeman
Daniel Henshall Photo
Daniel Henshall as Dolly
Jessica Henwick Photo
Jessica Henwick as Liv
Julia Garner Photo
Julia Garner as Hanna
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by shannonsuxx 5 / 10

A Promising Build-Up That Falls Flat

The Royal Hotel sets itself up as a slow-burning psychological thriller with an interesting premise and a setting ripe for tension. The story follows two backpackers who take jobs at a remote Australian pub, where they must navigate the rowdy and often unsettling behavior of the predominantly male patrons. While the film's laid-back pacing and immersive atmosphere make for a somewhat engaging watch, it ultimately stumbles in its execution, particularly in its final act.The biggest issue lies in how the climax squanders the film's most promising elements. The pub itself, with its claustrophobic feel and the ever-growing aggression of the drunk and unpredictable customers, seems tailor-made for a nerve-wracking escalation. However, instead of truly capitalizing on this, the film meanders, failing to push the tension to its full potential. The character of Dolly, whose presence hints at something more menacing, is severely underutilized in the final confrontation. What should have been a gripping, high-stakes moment fizzles out, leaving the resolution feeling unearned.The ending, in particular, is frustratingly weak. Instead of a decisive or thematically satisfying conclusion, the protagonists make a baffling choice that feels more like a narrative cop-out than a natural resolution. Their decision to simply walk off with their bags, after everything that's transpired, makes for an anticlimactic and unsatisfying conclusion. It's as if the film itself is unsure how to wrap things up, resulting in a final stretch that lacks impact and cohesion.Overall, The Royal Hotel has an intriguing setup and some effectively unsettling moments, but it ultimately misses the opportunity to fully exploit its setting and characters to deliver a truly gripping thriller. It builds toward something potentially great, only to lose its way at the finish line.
Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 6 / 10

so many red flags

Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) are traveling best friends far from home. They are on a party boat in Sydney, Australia. With money trouble, they take up jobs in a remote mining town. They are barmaids working for Billy (Hugo Weaving) who is drunk most of the time. The town is full of drunken men and not many women.I want Hanna and Liv to be smarter for the sake of the story. I can't believe that they didn't get the Dickens joke. It's the type of joke to accentuate somebody's stupidity and the movie does exactly that. I do like Hanna's reason for not drinking. I did expect the story to go a different way. It takes a sharp turn near the end which I don't mind. I would like something more during that stormy night so the payoff could be more satisfying. It sets up a couple of things that never pays off. The color coding of the beers should be something but it goes nowhere. I thought this story had a darker back story especially with the British chicks. This movie could be something but it stops short.
Reviewed by pgcdutt 6 / 10

Could have gone further...

This is a good example of Australian cinema with great photography, solid acting and well thought through directing.The story arc starts well initially but I found myself checking the run time towards the end of the film thinking there was more to come. It's almost as if the third act was missing.There were some curious local characters introduced that we really didn't get to know. I love the fact that we didn't get to know what happened to the previous bar girls but without seeing what the bad boys are truly capable of really diminished the gravity of any potential conflict and consequently the size of any payoff.I'm left wondering if the script was edited down to fit a production budget. It's like being taken on a journey with no intention of reaching the destination. The ending seemed rushed and far less thought through that the preceding scenes.This was a potentially good film but was it compromised somewhere somehow?
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