Starring: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Cailee Spaeny, Nick Offerman, and Chris Hemsworth Directed by: Drew Goddard Screenplay by: Drew Goddard At first, this is a film that feels like it's going to be another one of those classic "who done it?" murder mysteries. The kind where a band of misfits has to figure out together who killed someone in the party. If you look at the run time of Bad Times (a whopping 2 hrs and 20 minutes), you might think there's no way a murder mystery could last that long on screen. But you just have to keep watching. It's not what you think... A group of people who don't know each other appear to have all come together at the El Royale hotel; a small, but once glamorous establishment that straddles the border of California and Nevada not far from Lake Tahoe. They have nothing to do with each other, but all are hiding something. The vacuum salesman (Jon Hamm) doesn't seem to be exact