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[INC]

Kinda seen similar takes on this before, felt so of like midsommar, and other films like this

Still enjoyable 7/10

 

[GymWolf]

Just watched it. Liked it. This is the first time I've seen Anya Taylor Joy in anything, and after seeing all the glamorous promo shots for this movie and her chess show on Netflix I didn't expect her to be able to pull off skanky low class trash so well, but she nailed it.

Watch her leaked porn.

 

[Carmen Winstead]

Watch her leaked porn.

 

[PaddyOCanager]

Started out interesting, but they let the cat out of the bag too soon

That's my biggest criticism - I think they should have held back a while longer.

Otherwise, I really enjoyed the movie and I recommend anyone with a passing interest in this sort of film to give it a watch.

 

[Hugare]

Watch her leaked porn.

Google didnt come up with any results

 

[GymWolf]

Google didnt come up with any results

It was an inside joke, only the receiver knows what's what.

 

[Rival]

That's my biggest criticism - I think they should have held back a while longer.

Otherwise, I really enjoyed the movie and I recommend anyone with a passing interest in this sort of film to give it a watch.

I kind of liked that the guests found out what was happening early on. I found the film overall to be a bit boring but I’ll watch anything with ATJ in it.

 

[HarryKS]

A bunch of Brits taking Murican jobs when you really think about it.

 

[INC]

A bunch of Brits taking Murican jobs when you really think about it.

Films require actors that can act, so.......

 

[SJRB]

A bunch of Brits taking Murican jobs when you really think about it.

I mean, is Ralph Fiennes even a real chef? This entire movie is one big scam.

 

[AJUMP23]

I mean, is Ralph Fiennes even a real chef? This entire movie is one big scam.

He should have played the chef as Voldemort pretending to be a chef.

 

[SirTerry-T]

So, reading between the lines of what's been posted in this thread, I'm assuming this would make a good double bill with "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover"?

 

[TheInfamousKira]

It was fun, but it wore it's themes way too flamboyant, I think. The premise of the movie and the incidental dialogue should convey the message just fine, it became somewhat redundant by having chef dude's dialogue consist entirely of monologues about the disrepair of the cooking industry. One or two on the nose quips like that would have been good flavor (harr harr harr) but in being so prominent, I think it took what COULD have been the most interesting part of the film, the post credits discussion about what it all means. Here, we have an interesting little metaphor that is bludgeoned to death by the author's certainty that people won't be able to connect the narrative beats with a larger critique of the restaurant business.

Again, my problem is with the youth.

 

[delirium trigger]

What a steaming pile of shit. I actually thought it had some promise until it became of a parody of itself. The final third borders on it's so bad it's good.

 

[Mossybrew]

The final third borders on it's so bad it's good.

Yeah you really have to turn off your brain for this movie, it is incredibly silly, but I enjoyed it in that spirit, even though I really don't like that main actress, she just looks like a mutant alien and it's always offputting when I see her in something.

 

[Tams]

Surreally wonderful. The acting was fantastic, as was the score and cinematography. The comedy was unexpected and on point too.

The message of the film is well founded. It's an industry/area of life that has gone so far into parody in parts that it's good to have something that reveals it for the farce it often is.

But yeah, I agree they revealed the twist a bit too soon and I get the ending but it still didn't really make sense. You really need to suspend your disbelief by that point. But hey, it's an artsy/arthouse film so...