Synopsis
Mumbai, India, November 26, 2008. While several terrorists spread hatred and death through the city, others attack the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Both hotel staff and guests risk their lives, making unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and keep everyone safe while help arrives.
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Cast
- Dev PatelArjun
- Armie HammerDavid
- Nazanin BoniadiZahra
- Tilda Cobham-HerveySally
- Anupam KherChef Hemant Oberoi
- Jason IsaacsVasili Orchevsky
- Suhail NayyarAbdullah
- Amandeep SinghImran
- Manoj MehraHoussam
- Dinesh KumarRashid
Recommendations
- 90
Film Threat
No amount of words that can convey the sense of the film, because it is such a gut-punch of emotion. - 80
The Guardian
Hotel Mumbai is an excellent, white-knuckle thriller – and an unlikely crowd-pleaser. - 80
Screen Daily
Writer/director Anthony Maras largely sticks to the dramatisation playbook, but does so in an effective, affecting and empathetic fashion. - 75
IndieWire
What redeems Hotel Mumbai from morbid opportunism is that, in all but its slickest and most Hollywood moments, the thrills of Maras’ heart-wrenching re-enactment are never an end unto themselves. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
The film is both gripping in its execution — although a two-hours-plus running time feels a bit stretched — and totally bland in what it’s trying to say, with characters who don’t really stand out onscreen. - 60
Variety
Sitting through the harrowing events again nearly a decade later could hardly be described as entertainment, and the film plays to many of the same unseemly impulses that make disaster movies so compelling, exploiting the tragedy of the situation for spectacle’s sake. - 60
The New Yorker
Is it any surprise that this disturbing brand of cinema was triggered by 9/11, a catastrophe that, despite the valor it called forth, and the wars that ensued, lies beyond redemption and revenge? Or that Hotel Mumbai, a well-staged model of the form, should leave you feeling fidgety and low? You can admire a film, reel at the horrors it unfolds, and still wind up asking yourself, helplessly, what it was all for. - 58
The Film Stage
Hotel Mumbai is a great crowd pleaser but with a dangerously myopic narrative that, even with its flaws, serves a fitting tribute to the resilience of the people who lived and died through the terror attacks of 2008, but it definitely needs an audience which doesn’t believe everything it sees.
