The Menu stars Nicholas Hoult and Anya Taylor-Joy as a young couple who get invited to a secluded island named Hawthorne which has a very exclusive restaurant led by a mysterious chef known to his cooks as Chef (Ralph Fiennes) who has planned a very special course of meals for his guests tonight.
The Menu is a lot of fun and the first reason for that is how the film embraces its dark comedy tone very well, the longer the night goes on the more that the Menu reflects the guests that are there, there’s a famous movie star and his partner, a group of bankers, a restaurant critic and her husband and some others and the way the meals and the guests reflect each other I found to be really interesting and the punishments a lot of fun.
Also this film has some really good performances, Anya Taylor-Joy is great here and has a really expressive face that can say a lot emotions, John Leguizamo is very good here as well as the movie star while Ralph Fiennes is simply terrific here as the almost demented chef.
If there is one setback however its Nicholas Hoult, don’t get me wrong he’s not terrible in this film but I didn’t think his performance here was all that good he just fell kind of flat and it hurt the movie after a while.
And so that was the Menu and it is a lot of fun with some delicious moments, its one meal I will happily have again, 3 and a half out of 5.
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