The film is something of a big deal, despite its unheralded Netflix premiere. The Kitchen marks Daniel Kaluuya’s (Nope, Judas and the Black Messiah) directorial debut, alongside short film director Kibwe Tavares. Kaluuya also co-wrote the film with Gangs of London’s Joe Murtagh, cementing a vision of dystopian, near-future London alongside an unconventional tale of found family. It’s Blokamp-esque in design, but is centered on Britain’s Black diaspora. It’s a shame such a unique film can’t be seen on the biggest screen possible, but it at least deserves to be seen by as many eyes as possible.
Very boring. I was expecting some action, but it was all drama. The plot is nice, but not my cup of tea. It reminded me of several movies, judge Dredd (but without the judge). That French movie district 13. I didn’t like it personally.
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Watched it in the cinema - stunning film. I think they sacrifice some logic in the plot for the sake of visual impact but it works and so I’ll let them off (this time). I went with a friend who does special effects for film, TV and ads who has a much more critical eye for such things and he was also bowled over - the thing he flagged up was the way quality CGI was dropped into real locations, as opposed to actors against a green screen, which gives it a lot more weight and impact.
I saw it on a plane last week, so didn’t experience the full flavour of it. I should rewatch it on a better screen.
I did like it a lot, but the AI stuff didn’t make sense to me. They perfected intelligence but not advanced robotics outside of the human form. They made the AI people way too human like. A war on AI would be less material and more networking and hacking. I’m not really into Anime but the movie Ghost In The Shell does a good job on dealing with humans and machines.
But still. I’d recommend it to people and I’ll happy watch it again!
The visuals were very good.
There’s quite a bit of it that made me go “hold on” (I had a lot of questions about NOMAD too) but they carry it off with excellent performances and stunning visuals that I just went along with it in the end.
I have not. I’ll give that one a shot, too. I’m not too big on “drama only” movies. I like some action to make it entertaining. Is this one good?
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I find this with most Netflix movies. Maybe I’m just not keeping up with the time, I don’t know. Netflix movies seem to have a lot of not much with only a little excitement.
Oh my god, you’ve read my mind and said what I’ve always wanted to say and didn’t know how to express it. It’s a lot of “not much with only a little excitement”