Hotel Artemis
Directed by Drew Pearce
- science fiction
- crime
- action
- thriller
- drama
The story
Los Angeles, June 21st, 2028. While the streets are being torn apart by riots, the Nurse, who runs a clandestine hospital for criminals in the penthouse of the Artemis, a closed old hotel, has a rough night dealing with troublemaker clients: thieves, assassins, someone from the past and the one who owns the place and the whole city.
What it’s like
Dim, saturated neon bleeding through rain-streaked windows, with the hotel's interior kept in warm amber and sickly green practical light. Its corridors and surgical suite are tight, low-ceilinged and fluorescent-cold, while the exterior shots of a 2028 Los Angeles under riot and smoke have a hazy, sun-bleached menace, the city seen from high above like a distant fever. Synth-heavy score pulses under the action and drops to near-silence in the quieter hospital scenes, where the hum of machines and the clink of instruments carry. The pacing is brisk and claustrophobic, a single night of escalating crises that rarely lets the viewer breathe, and the emotional register is wry and weary, a dark-humored dystopian thriller with a melancholy core. The arcs centre on a guarded, rule-bound caretaker slowly reckoning with grief and the cost of isolation. Violence is frequent and sharp: gunfire, stabbings and bloody surgical scenes, with gore on show but more brutal than lingering, plus some profanity and street-level danger. It suits late-night, alone-with-the-lights-low viewing, and it's for people who enjoy genre sci-fi crime with atmosphere and a sardonic streak, not for anyone seeking something gentle.
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