Bon Appetit (2005) User Reviews

More action and laughs in 25 minutes than you'll find in most feature length films

[roland-104 · 9/10 · 1 November 2005]

World premiere of a hilarious, fast-paced short film about how the staff at an upscale L. A. restaurant subdue a bunch of gangsters and their rich ringleader, who happens to own the place where they all work. A student project, this film is assured, displays lavish production values, is well acted by a tightly knit comic ensemble, and in general is just a rich romp of a flick. Justin Lutsky, who attended the Idaho International Film Festival where I saw this film, studied film-making at Chapman College in Orange County, CA, a program that, he told me, is coming on strong these days, not far behind USC in the quality of students and projects, if not quantity. I'll be looking for more good stuff from Lutsky in the future. My rating: 9/10 (A-)(Film seen on 10/01/05). If you'd like to read more of my reviews, send me a message for directions to my websites.

Very well done

[lonestarr2525 · 10/10 · 8 March 2006]

It was a great movie from beginning to ending. I can't wait to buy it on DVD, anyone know when its coming out? Overall the characters were developed in a standard, but effective way for the length of the movie. The plot was easy to follow without being transparent. The laughs were second to none. Clearly this movie had a healthy budget, but it was still a fraction of what some of he feature length movies get today, If I were a producer for a major production company and I had seen this I would know that I could trust this crew to a few million dollars and know that the product would be a very high quality film that would appeal to a large audience and turn some heads doing it. I loved the entire movie. Well, I actually thought that it should have ended with the restaurant owner being asked if he had ever thought about producing a film and they should have left the fake trailer out of the film, but having said that, I still gave the movie a perfect score because I understand that an ending like that is a risk, and it probably worked for most people. All I'm saying is that it didn't work for me.