O Menú

SPOILERS: Que potencial! E que filme tão medíocre. Em vez de um estudo sociológico inteligente da colisão das classes sociais, O Menu acabou por ser uma fábula doce e azeda sobre um chefe de cozinha zangado que castiga uns que por uma vez criticaram a sua comida e outros por algo não relacionado com ele. E mesmo isto o filme faz sem imaginação e em alguns lugares até estupidamente (castigo teatral do investidor-anjo, sem o qual o chefe nem sequer teria esse restaurante à disposição). Não existe nenhum respeito pelo vilão principal. Mesmo a personagem da gastrocrítica não é incorporada como metáfora dos críticos de cinema que gostariam de derrubar o filme. A única personagem do filme que faz sentido com a sua perceção da situação e as suas reações à mesma é a principal (Anya Taylor-Joy). Ela também traz o único impulso criativo imaginativo ao conceito de enredo, revelando a sua identidade. Fracas 3*. (23/11/2022)

A satire through the culinary arts (not original in that respect) that initially combines tension with humour while setting up the characters for a "breaking point" in an exemplary way. But everything it wants to say, it's said in the first half and... And then nothing. In the second half it's just gropes and somehow stumbles to the conclusion. Moreover, after the "break" it's downright woeful in the character work, which retroactively devalues the beginning. Everything is "aptly and sophisticatedly satirised" in the first half and the second half works just fine thanks to the actors, who do their best not to let it sink completely. It should have been a short instead of a feature film. (16/11/2022)

I have to say that it's been quite a while since I enjoyed every minute of a movie. An entertaining piece, where you don't know what will happen in the next scene from the beginning, but that's why you enjoy it more and more with each passing minute. The actors are great, Ralph Fiennes is even better. The plot consists of ideas that combine horror, drama, and black comedy. In all aspects, however, it is done in a way that doesn't fit into any extreme category. Just a surprise that is worth seeing. (16/01/2023)

An entertaining satire, only lightly tinged with horror, that sacrifices pure genre pleasure in the second half, which would have required at least a basic believability of the characters' behaviour to keep the concept going, and, as a result, it ironically becomes part of what it’s mocking. That said, the fun more or less doesn't let up, and the great actors pull it off. (17/11/2022)

Another shallow satirical slurry built on prefabricated procedures and assiduous masking of fast-food ideas with a conceptual masquerade. It’s neither insightful, nor funny, nor shocking. It’s nothing. They invite you in for a refined dining experience and serve you something that looks fancy but tastes like a burger from the drive-through window. No compliments to the chef. (07/01/2023)