Worth checking in for the night

capturing this dystopian environment in grim, gritty fashion; and he does a particularly fine job of emphasising the titular hotel’s grandiose and troubled past through visual clues and quirks.

He’s also coaxed a grand cast to check in as Foster – who adds much poignancy and reflection to her custodian – is joined by fellow acting royalty Jeff Goldblum (Niagara).

Goldblum may not be as wildly zany as he was in last year’s Thor: Ragnarok, but instead exhibits a rarely seen dark side behind his outwardly charming hotel owner.

The veterans are surrounded by more fresh faces – in terms of time spent on the big screen – such as Sterling K. Brown, playing chaotic bank robber Waikiki, and Sofia Boutella who makes a much better fist of gun-toting assassin Nice than seducing Tom Cruise as The Mummy.

Former wrestler Dave Bautista’s (Everest) movie career continues to blossom and Zachary Quinto (Crosby) and Charlie Day (Acapulco) are welcome presences.

Comparisons with John Wick inevitably also mean measuring up its action sequences against that series and while there is plenty of bang-for-your-buck here, overall they come up a little short.

As watchable and cool as most of the characters are, it’s only really Foster who is given significant depth and among the chaos, it’s hard to care too much who lives or dies.

But as an exercise in gritty sci-fi with interesting ideas and framing a future that chillingly may not be out of the question, it’s worth checking in to Hotel Artemis.