A Hologram for the King
A beautiful doctor (Sarita Choudhury) and a wise-cracking taxi driver (Alexander Black) help failed American businessman (Tom Hanks) who looks to recoup his losses by selling his idea to a wealthy monarch.
7 July 1955, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
25 May 1968, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
19 September 1983, New York, USA
25 August 1933, Detroit, Michigan, USA
1972, Tunis, Tunisia
3 June 1991, Innsbruck, Austria
1969, Ludwigsfelde, Brandenburg, Germany
9 July 1956, Concord, California, USA
January 03, 2017
It has a certain amount of charm, mostly thanks to the cast, but ultimately A Hologram for the King is a little underwhelming.
April 28, 2016
It looks expensive and comes off bland.
April 22, 2016
It's a sweet, deliberately meandering movie, and it took me a while to connect with it. But it won me over because ultimately it conveys so well that feeling of estrangement that is both terrifying and comic for any farflung traveler.
January 02, 2017
Strand Hanks on a desert island, a pirate ship or in a well-intentioned film without much focus and he'll still find a way of turning it around.
February 23, 2017
A film that takes the unusual metaphor of contemporary man as living hologram until unexpected limit consequences. [Full review in Spanish]
May 16, 2016
It's hard to imagine a more Tom Hanks-y setup than this.
April 22, 2016
Not even the mighty Tom Hanks can save this scattershot adaptation of Dave Eggers' lost-soul novel
January 09, 2017
A Hologram for the King features Tykwer's known style of repetition and alternative music choices, and is a sad misfire.
December 31, 2016
Frequently, Hologram plays like a good Mad Men episode, with Don Draper feeling his age and swallowing his moral corrosion in the name of a job and his family.
April 22, 2016
If it sounds like Hologram is basically about a middle-aged white guy getting his groove back in the Middle East, well, yes, it is that. But if you squint hard enough, it's also a little bit more.
January 01, 2017
Hologram tries your patience a bit, but its leading man carries it, like he always bloody does.
April 22, 2016
To describe this as a movie about a mediocre businessman biding his time before an appointment probably makes it sound more exciting than it is.
