An ensemble cast movie shot in a fly on the wall style following the staff at a Liverpool restaurant on a busy night.
This is familiar territory given TV shows like "Devil's kitchen" and "Restaurant hell" so we are all familiar with people losing their minds over undercooked lamb but even so this movie lays it on a bit too thick.
There are also several subplots which don't really come to anything, like the washer upper nipping out the back to buy some drugs or the waiter arranging to get a group of American women into an exclusive nightclub. Why? What did those scenes add to the movie? This isn't a long movie so such scenes might just be filler.
There are also technical things which were just jarringly wrong, like the head chef tasting several spoons full of some kind of cake mix using the same spoon each time or delivering an expensive bottle of wine to a table already opened or the way non of the "chefs" knew how to hold a kitchen knife correctly.
The ending is unsatisfactory, it felt rushed as if the filmmakers needed to be off location in ten minutes so just shot whatever to try to tie things up but it just leaves the audience without any resolution. There is a lot more of this story to tell, in fact the previous 90 minutes were only a prelude.
The movie opens with an inspection of the kitchen where the inspector knocks the restaurant to a 3 star from a five. I feel the same way about the movie.
This is familiar territory given TV shows like "Devil's kitchen" and "Restaurant hell" so we are all familiar with people losing their minds over undercooked lamb but even so this movie lays it on a bit too thick.
There are also several subplots which don't really come to anything, like the washer upper nipping out the back to buy some drugs or the waiter arranging to get a group of American women into an exclusive nightclub. Why? What did those scenes add to the movie? This isn't a long movie so such scenes might just be filler.
There are also technical things which were just jarringly wrong, like the head chef tasting several spoons full of some kind of cake mix using the same spoon each time or delivering an expensive bottle of wine to a table already opened or the way non of the "chefs" knew how to hold a kitchen knife correctly.
The ending is unsatisfactory, it felt rushed as if the filmmakers needed to be off location in ten minutes so just shot whatever to try to tie things up but it just leaves the audience without any resolution. There is a lot more of this story to tell, in fact the previous 90 minutes were only a prelude.
The movie opens with an inspection of the kitchen where the inspector knocks the restaurant to a 3 star from a five. I feel the same way about the movie.