Hoyts Millenium Cinema

Comfy seats and always clean cinemas. You cannot ask for much more. This has been my local cinema for years and they usually have well timed showings. You don’t need to book in advance for here to get good seats unlike the Garden City location.

Interstellar. I’m not into space movies, I have nightmares about aliens, but watching Mathew McConaughey in this search for other liveable galaxies is well worth it. As a father he tries his best under trying circumstances, but why oh why did he leave them is all I kept asking myself. I would never ever for a million bucks go into space. Anne Hathaway gives a medioca performance as his flight partner. A frozen Matt Damon, Michael Caine, John Lithgow. Jessica Chastain add to the star cast. I will admit to not understanding it, but that is more that it frightens me about the destruction of our planet and having to go somewhere else… The maths equations on the blackboard is mind boggling. 4stars for special effects, 1 star for ending…

Millennium is hard to review — there are parts that I think are great, and other parts that are fairly average. In general, I think 3 stars is fair.
Let’s start with the good — it’s always very clean, both inside the actual theatre and in the foyer. The staff in general are quite pleasant and competent in their duties. As a fairly new cinema, the facilities are all in good condition, and quite comfortable.
It does have a fairly well stocked candy bar, and to be honest, it is over priced, but completely in line with all other movie theatres.
Moving on to the fairly average points.
For some reason they closed down the ticket booths and amalgamated the ticket sales with the candy bar. In some ways this might be helpful, as you wouldn’t have to line up twice, you would be able to buy candy at the same time, however it does make the lines move a lot slower and for those who don’t want to purchase anything from the candy bar, it doesn’t make a lot of sense. There are also only 4(?) POS units, which I have seen cause the line back up to the stairs on busy nights.
The complex itself is quite small, with only 4(?) different theatres which does make the availability of movies and showing times quite limited, so I would recommend checking the times rather than just wandering in to see what’s showing.
If I’m already in Fremantle, I would prefer to go to Millennium over the other options available, but wouldn’t go out of my way to go there if I were just seeing a movie.

A very enjoyable place to go which is not overly packed like most cinemas. You can generally get a ticket at the last minute and not have to worry about sitting at the very front of the theatre (unless that’s what you like). Always affordable and has the newest movies out

The place to go for a movie if you don’t like crowds. This place has huge stadium screens with DTS sound. But unless your there on a Friday or Saturday night, it’s usually dead. Which is just the way I like it. You can chat to your fellow movie friends without getting strange looks :). The prices are a little more extravagant which seems to be the norm for cinemas these days. But you’ll leave here feeling fulfilled (unless of course you pick a sucky movie: D)

It appears that they have decided here that a cinema can run itself, void of any staff and assistance. This is not a dig at the actual people that work here but more a dig at the obvious cut back measures that have been installed.
The previous ticket counter is no longer and all tickets must be purchased or collected at ‘the candy bar’. Assuming that it would be quicker to buy tickets online, I did so and then maye my way to the ‘online priority express’ line. But for some reason, the other lines moved faster and more efficiently as us numpties are left in a line with just our assumptions and we all know what ‘assume’ does.
There also wasn’t anyone to check our tickets or direct us to the appropriate screen.
Its the closes cinema to me but I reckon I might make the move a bit further next time.

It’s hard to decide how many stars to give this cinema.
On one hand, it’s technically the best set up cinema complex in Fremantle. Its’ enormous screens, comfortable seating and great sound setups can turn Hollywood blockbusters into utterly overwhelming experiences.
Despite this high quality, there’s a few problems with this place. For a start, tickets are far too expensive. The selection of movies is limited in the extreme; only the latest Hollywood films get a look in here. While Hoyts shows some less popular mainstream fare across town in the pleasantly run-​down Queensgate cinemas, it’s a pity this amazing setup isn’t opened up for use with some of the more accessible films Luna On SX picks up. They have recently attempted to start allocating seat numbers to patrons; luckily patrons seem to be blissfully ignoring this, as if you were to pay any attention to it, you’d end up sitting in a part of the cinema you’d rather not be in. This is particularly unwise as different people have different ideas of where the optimum place in the cinema is to sit. The candy bar here is ludicrously expensive as well — last time I was here, my wife asked me if thirty dollars would be enough to cover our popcorn and drinks; it was, but only just.
Mainstream cinemas in Australia are operating a crazy racket at the moment with ticket prices and candy bar profits; while for the time being there’s not much to be done about it, I’d suggest considering other entertainment options. In Freo, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, Deckchair Theatre or Kulcha are great options that will likely give you a more memorable experience for less money.