BITTER FEAST (eOne, 2010) D: Joe Maggio, w/ James LeGros, Joshua Leonard. Rating: NN DVD package: NNN Rating: NN
Everybody likes food and everybody hates know-nothing critics. Put the two together and you’ve got a great idea for a movie: a failed celebrity chef kidnaps the snide blogger he blames for his fall and subjects him to culinary-themed nastiness.
Sadly, the actual movie is merely an okay time-waster. Some of the tortures are inventive but not very scary. Most of the fun comes from James LeGros, who plays the chef as a prissy twerp, and Joshua Leonard‘s mix of despair and contempt as the blogger.
This is ultra-cheap filmmaking and far from slick. The extras give a good idea of how they did it.
To see the same basic idea done better and funnier, check out Theatre Of Blood, with Vincent Price as a Shakespearean actor taking out his critics.
EXTRAS Commentary, making-of doc, interview. Widescreen. English audio. English, Spanish subtitles.
