I usually don't write reviews or comments. But I felt like commenting about this movie, mainly because I'm seeing all good comments about it.I thought, this movie was absolutely terrible, and boring. Please hear me out and don't think I'm a troll...this was just my honest opinion on the movie.I watched it for the first time tonight from beginning to end. The entire 1 hour and 40 minutes was basically just talking talking talking talking....no drama or anything. Don't get me wrong, I love good dialogue in movies, but this movie just did not interest me in the least.It basically just follows from one table to the next as people carry on conversations and then ends with two guys getting whacked. You have an old guy who all movie, all he does is talk about paintings. Then you have a smart-ass cook who doesn't care about anybody and he listens to his basketball games on the radio. You've got the guy at the bar who sits there all movie (until the end) talking and drinking. You've got the bartender who takes bets on if he knows the answers to questions or not.At about 50 minutes in the movie comes the very first bit of drama. The chef Duncan decides to poison the mobsters food. After 50 minutes of being bored, my interest perked up a bit. So he puts rat poison in their food...gives it to a waitress and tells her to give it to the mobsters. Then as she's walking up the stairs he changes his mind, grabs the plate from her and throws it away and then tells the other cook to cook the same food up again, this time with no poison. I was like "are you kidding" I understand people have different opinions and interests but I just can't believe this movie was rated so high (7.3) I rated it a 1. Because it did not interest me at all, I thought it was boring, I thought most of the acting was bad and the story went absolutely no where.Now I understand most people who liked the movie will call me a troll, and I admit my review is a bit harsh, but this is just how I feel.

Great acting, slice-of-restaurant-life, kind of like THE SOPRANOS OPEN A RESTAURANT MEETS THE FOOD CHANNEL. Excellent acting by Danny Aiella and some little-known actors and the filming must have been done in a real restaurant. It reminded me of a really great Italian restaurant in Clifton, New Jersey and another in Monterey, California. It also made me miss the Italian neighborhood I grew up in in Jersey. And you will definitely NOT guess the ending, I promise you. It will also give you a different and new perspective on people who work on Wall Street. Evidently, they're not all dorks with accounting degrees. But he really SHOULD burn that tie!

There's something about this film that made me fall in love with it from the moment I gazed at its delicious looking poster and up until the very last frame. It's a mob film with a few drops of revenge and an overdose of family relationships – but much more important – it's a film about a gourmet Italian restaurant, and about people who love to dream, talk, eat and kill over its ingredients. Someone in Dinner Rush's production unit sure knows his way around the kitchen, and director Bob Giraldi delivers this passion and emotion throughout the happenings of a long, cold lonely night at this New York placed restaurant. John Corbett, previously known from My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Sex and the City fame delivers a dark and disturbing performance that winds up well on this tasty home-made thriller. Bon appetite!

I found this gem in the bargain bin at Wal Mart. How it got there, I don't know. The film stars Danny Aiello (Do The Right Thing), Mike McGlone (The Brothers McMullen) and John Corbett (Sex and the City). Set in the fast paced New York Italian restaurant "Gigino", we follow a restaurant owner (Aiello) and his son, the head chef, on a busy Friday night. The film is comprised of witty banter from different tables in the restaurant, following a uptight art critic, a mafiosi from Queens, a food critic and a real mystery man in Corbett's character. The staff has to deal with a power outage, whiny tables and a line chef who is into a bookie 35 grand. The film carries itself with panache every second, and no matter how often I see this picture, be it on DVD or on IFC, I just can't get enough. Check it out!