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Why so much hype?

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Really dumb pretentious movie with male actors who simply are weak excuses for actors.The score is just so inappropriate, it is beyond belief. It's one of those score that's supposed to make you think something exciting is about to happen, but when it never does, the music becomes an albatross.And then there's Brittney Murphy. She was so hot in this totally CFM sort of way. Her eyes just exude sexual ripeness and the way her mouth twitches is just so hot. Too bad she's gone.But her dirty sex appeal can't save this mega bomb.

I'm talking about you, especially, director Alex Merkin, because the "buck" stops at your desk. Certainly you know that Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata--one of the five most frequently used pieces of public domain soundtrack music in the million plus items making up IMDb's listings--is composed BY BEETHOVEN, and NOT by the late British pianist Sydney Dale, whom your movie's credits list as the composer of this tune, which makes up about half the soundtrack of ACROSS THE HALL. As director, it is your JOB to spot big goofs such as this, or insure that people are hired who can do so. No self-respecting film helmsman would allow the credits for his movie to say that Satan wrote the Bible, or list King George III as the first U.S. president. However, you allowed a goof tantamount to these to slip into your end credits. (Anyone with half an ear can tell Mr. Dale recorded this particular version of "Moonlight" during his Piccadilly Period, due to the rich corkiness in the bass notes.) Evidently, your pianist/soundtrack composer Bobby Tahouri just phoned in his efforts for ACROSS THE HALL, since either he was not closely associated enough or did not care enough to correct this monumental goof himself.This movie COULD have rated a 9 or 10, but it's not over until the fat lady sings, as they say. You guys blew it with 12 seconds left in a movie running 1 hour, 33 minutes, and 11 seconds! Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory! Giving just a two-point deduction to something no doubt setting BOTH Mr. Beethoven and Mr. Dale spinning in their respective graves probably is being overly generous!

This film is certainly the worst I have seen this year. Be prepared to try and slow your brain down to the pace of this film or risk trying to lick your own elbow to stop yourself thinking about what might't happen. To give the film some merit, the intro credits are fun, and its nice being in a spooky Hotel. Cue some post-teen transatlantic two dimensional Dawsons creek drop outs and we are off to a mediocre start. Oh wait there we don't really care about the characters, so if they die its all a bit of fun; Sorry to break this to you but hardly anyone dies. So we are left trying to figure out 'if that really happened then wouldn't it go a bit more like this...' until we realise that it would never ever happen and so why are we still watching when we have figured out the plot while the slow motion sequences fanny about to pretentiously ominous bass note "dun-dun dun-dun dun-dun." AVOID AT ALL COST!!!!!

If you want to really enjoy this film, don't forget to switch off your brain before viewing. From the beginning titles throughout the all film you will as well enjoy the atmosphere of the hotel, the smart photography, the music score and the decent performance of the actors. Alas, don't expect anyone of the characters do something intelligent, especially the guy who is completely innocent and then flees (just to get caught a few storeys below) like he had something to hide or be afraid of. If you are curious about how a script can be messy and how easy it is to have holes in a plot, you should check this flick out. (the vote 1 is to correct the misleading official IMDb rating)