Four Rooms

REVIEW
While two of the four segments in this anthology film are moderately good, the other two are so abysmally bad that they very nearly make the entire project a failure. The film takes place on New Year's Eve and tells four different bizarre stories, happening in four different rooms of a hotel serviced by one very overworked bellboy (Roth in an ingratiatingly mugging performance). Anders' segment concerns a coven of witches; it's boring from start to finish. Rockwell's bit is equally bad: It stars Beals as the victim of a twisted bondage and power game and is actually painful to watch. The film livens up substantially in Rodriguez's segment, about two children in a room by themselves, nominally supervised by Roth. And Tarantino's segment tops off the weird mix with a macabre tale of a bet made in flesh.