10 Movie Murders That Were Utterly Impossible To Solve

5. The Million Dollar Hotel

It's not only your iTunes that U2 like to stick their noses into uninvited. Back in 1987 the bespectacled bellend Bono apparently had the bright idea for a murder mystery film and, over a decade later, he somehow managed to convince respected art house director Wim Wenders to make his dream a reality, the singer himself teaming with one Nicholas Klein on the script. The result is a movie that star and noted anti-Semite Mel Gibson referred to as "as boring as a dog's ass" whilst promoting it, and which involves Gibson's FBI agent being brought in to look into the mysterious death of the son of a billionaire media mogul, played by Tim Roth, at the titular hotel. And it is really boring. And stupid. Gibson's introduced to the colourful inhabitants of the hotel, whose name turns out to be ironic - it's a total skid row-style establishment, full of a bunch of weirdos, including Peter Stromare as a nutball who thinks he's the Fifth Beatle and has been awaiting a flurry of royalty payments since the end of the sixties. Whilst he looks into the death of Roth's Izzy the rest of the hotel plot to sell off a particularly valuable painting the victim owned, hopefully getting them out of the hellhole they call home. In fact the investigation takes a back seat to profiling the eccentricities of the residents, so when it turns out that Izzy killed himself at the end, you can barely bring yourself to care.