The Lunchbox (2013)
6/10
If you like endings that end when they should still be going
15 November 2014
Hmmm, what to say... I was enjoying the movie and then, just a bit too abruptly, the last half hour didn't fit... it just didn't do anything... it went flatter than a pappadum.

The movie has its rhythm, people are doing predictable things that people in real life or movies do, and then the acting, the script and the nuance shifted so that the viewer was left with no idea what changed, leading up to an ending which I thoroughly hated.

Almost two hours of watching these people's lives so we kind of, sort of, maybe, get a hint of perhaps there's going to be a... something.

Pffft... hey, I get that real life is potatoes or portatos or tomatoes or tomartoes but I think the ending really did not deduce very much at all... I presume we are supposed to think that the lunch system never fails and so, sitting in his delivery van, all the wonderful things will occur... silly movie really, in hindsight. Did not live up to the great reviews everywhere.

A bit too precious, a bit too art house, a bit too cute. 6 out of 10 because I liked the actors very much.
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