This morning’s June Swoon entry comes from Australia and I found it on Hulu. It was called The Royal Hotel.

According to IMDB, “Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) are best friends backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, Liv, looking for an adventure, convinces Hanna to take a temporary live-in job behind the bar of a pub called ‘The Royal Hotel’ in a remote Outback mining town. Bar owner Billy and a host of locals give the girls a riotous introduction to Down Under drinking culture, but soon Hanna and Liv find themselves trapped in an unnerving situation that rapidly leaps out of their control.“

Now, that is what the synopsis on IMDB says, but that is not what this movie is like. It is listed as a psychological thriller, but there is nothing psychological about it and very little thriller.

It takes way too long for anything to happen. We spend way too much time with the drunken reprobates in the bar without any sort of character development.

The ending sequence was just nonsensical and does not wrap anything up outside of the basic result.

This was very boring for most of the film and anything that it tried at the end did not work at all. I was very disappointed with this one.