The Dinner (2017)
Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As the quartet debate their options, the conversation reopens old wounds between the siblings.
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What a total waste of time. After watching this movie I felt cheated by the ridiculous ending!
Good acting by a few, but a terrible movie. Don't waste your time. Seriously.
Well casted, well acted, well filmed... all of which makes this complete nothing of a film more irritating.An incessantly interrupted dinner...which I realize is the point, but after about the tenth halt to all action just for the point of being frustrating... got more and more tedious as each pretentious and overwraught course was served. Two couples, related, arguing about long-held grudges, moving slowly, slowly, slowly to the point: a serious incident involving their children. Very serious.The tense relationships between all parties is revealed slowly slowly slowly via flashbacks, as is the incident in question.Then we reach a scene which should be the climax, but the movie ends mid-scene with no resolution and we are taken to the credits.No resolution.No character arcs.No plot developments.Just a lot of backstory and a really frustrating and pretentious meal.If you want to be put into an irritated mood with a general desire to slap every person you see for the next several hours, by all means, subject yourself to this self-indulgent bit of nothing. I'm pretty sure that the entire message of the movie is: Don't refuse the dessert course, you will piss off the wait-staff and they will argue with you about your poor choice. It was the only coherent scene in the entire miasma of irritation.
Not a bad movie, but the people will make you hate them