What's a good movie to watch on a plane? A one take movie about a chef and his restaurant on the brink.
We are following chef Andy Jones dealing with his restaurant, which, while seemingly popular, is running into problems with staff and stock, and trying to keep up with what the house staff are dealing with while also dealing with their own problems. This comes to the head at various moments in the movie (the movie is well named) with various sub plots, with a few key pieces that go off and suggest that the restaurant might not survive too well. And we end on a note of... I'm not entirely sure, but it's not good.
This is an intense character piece of putting a bunch of characters in one location, and then let them go. We follow various plots, and I assume this was one take? So yes, it could have been a play, but it feels like some parts of the story are there just to give the main cast a breather from being on screen. I do also question about how the restaurant itself manages to work with the work flow we see, but that's the buy in of watching a movie.
I'm gonna give a large round of applause to all the cast. There are the people you know, but all of them give good performances, making the whole movie enjoyable.
And watching it on a plane is fine! Although your preferences may differ.
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