Hotel Mumbai movie review: Director Anthony Maras’ treatment of terrorists might ruffle some feathers, but Dev Patel’s strong performance make it a defiant and cathartic cinematic experience.

It as some time after 9 p.m. on what was, until then, just an ordinary November night at the five-star Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai, India, when head chef Hemant Oberoi answered a phone call.

But the more involving “Hotel Mumbai” plays in the moment, the queasier it seems in retrospect. It reduces the randomness of real-life bloodshed to the slick thrills of a popcorn movie.

This locale is the o pp ulent Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, but because its staff and guests embodies the spirit of the city during those desperate days, it would be referred to as HOTEL MUMBAI. The story ...

Hotel Mumbai is a two-hour film that could have benefited from a more intimate and tighter 100-minute cut. Dev Patel is front-and-center in the cast, yet this isn’t a vehicle for him the way the ...

On November 26, 2008, ten young terrorists from Pakistan invaded the sprawling Indian financial capital of Mumbai and over a period of three days wreaked unspeakable havoc on visitors and ...

Hotel Mumbai Yet another true story is brought to your screen in Hotel Mumbai , a movie about the true story of the 2008 attacks on the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India.

From Nov. 26 through Nov. 29 in 2008, the city of Mumbai, India came under siege from a squad of 10 jihadists who entered the metropolis via a hijacked fishing vessel and proceeded to create chaos ...

Hotel Mumbai, the debut feature from short filmmaker Anthony Maras, puts you right in the heart of the darkest days of modern Indian history.Over a three day-period in 2008, ten Pakistani ...

Starring Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Anupam Kher, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Jason Isaacs, Suhail Nayyar, and Natasha Liu Bordizzo A tense and graphic dramatisation of the 2008 attacks on ...