A Hologram for the King
Alan Clay, Salesman for tech company traveled from Boston to Saudi Arabia to sell his company product to recoup again and get rid of this financial crisis. Alan missed the conference where he was supposed to present the holographic teleconferencing by representation for the king ,he found him self surrounded by the bureaucracy and got in touch with very different culture.
1974, Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany
10 May 1977, Norway
1981, Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
1969, Ludwigsfelde, Brandenburg, Germany
7 July 1955, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
22 November 1968, Copenhagen, Denmark
25 August 1933, Detroit, Michigan, USA
23 December 1971, Binghamton, New York, USA
3 June 1991, Innsbruck, Austria
19 September 1983, New York, USA
25 May 1968, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
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.
January 01, 2017
Hologram tries your patience a bit, but its leading man carries it, like he always bloody does.
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.
January 09, 2017
A Hologram for the King features Tykwer's known style of repetition and alternative music choices, and is a sad misfire.
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.
February 23, 2017
A film that takes the unusual metaphor of contemporary man as living hologram until unexpected limit consequences. [Full review in Spanish]
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.
April 28, 2016
It looks expensive and comes off bland.
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 22, 2016
Not even the mighty Tom Hanks can save this scattershot adaptation of Dave Eggers' lost-soul novel
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.
May 16, 2016
It's hard to imagine a more Tom Hanks-y setup than this.
