I love every single cast member, and the performances were great. However, the script and plot should have been rewritten quite a bit before putting this movie in the can. It was pretty convoluted, and the Italian bit was completely unnecessary. A bit of trimming, and some better character development, and the movie would have gotten 5 stars. The cast deserved much better!

Set in London in the near future of those who have and those who have not. The Kitchen follows a resident of a social residential block called the kitchen who takes in a young boy. It's been hailed for its treatment of social issues, housing issues, and although these are present the film lacks any sense of direction and aimlessly drifts without a lot happening for the first 112mins, by this time you will have given up, or maybe still watching.

terrible movie that never should have been made.

Great cast, great direction, great story.... EVERYTHING GREAT 💯%+

I love everything about this movie. I think it is quite underrated! The first time I watched this movie I had to watch it a second time.

This ‘70s story of the wives of New York gangsters who continue to operate their jailed husbands' Hells Kitchen rackets, has potential, but without the opportunity to really connect to any characters is it difficult for the audience to be really engaged. There are some twists and turns in the plot and Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish and Elisabeth Moss do decent jobs in their roles as the wives, however, ultimately it is the period setting and costumes that shine brightest.

Me parece que el principal problema de esta película esta en que no saben si quiere ser una película feminista o una película de como las minorías al tener poder se corrompen; una de las premisas que más me gusto de esta película esta en una frase que dice el esposo de Kathy 'Juegan a ser mafiosos' con un 1 acto en el que se empoderan y toman el control y un 2 y 3 acto en el que las cosas se les salen de las manos y ven el lado oscuro de este negocio, las 3 protagonistas cuentan con un desarrollo propio y aunque en la película cuesta darte cuenta a cada una la mueve algo diferente, mientras que en el personaje de Kathy se refleja la necesidad en el de Ruby el empoderamiento y en el de Claire simplemente la venganza, lo que las hace protagonistas de su propia historia, pero en la película no le dan la exposición necesaria y pueden llegarse a sentir como personajes planos; la violencia en esta película me gusto y no, ya que por un lado es gráfica y te ayuda a construir la atmosfera de la trama, pero por otro lado es predecible y parece que en la mayoría de ellas los personajes podrían haberlas evitado fácilmente, algunas se sienten con calzador en la trama, mientras que otras están muy bien logradas. Esta historia es concisa y va directo al grano; con giros de trama bien logrados y con planos que en el como avanza la trama le dan sentido y matices al clímax final. 'The Kitchen' es una película que para mi le faltó 1 hora ya que las cosas pasan muy rápido y eso entorpece un poco el desarrollo tanto de los personajes como de la historia, una historia sencilla que cuenta con una dualidad muy interesante, abecés está muy bien lograda y en otra cuenta con diálogos vacíos y suena pretenciosa.

Omg, really surprised with the positive reviews. The movie starts like a caricature of a caricature and takes it all the way through. It is neither a comedy or a thriller. It just comes out as yet another cry for showcasing the "right" type of character against the "wrong" type of character. You know, "the message" - if I were to be more specific my review would not make it live. Sad times!

Kept my attention. Good storyline, acting. Highly recommended

Goodfellas meets Bad girls. I thought it was very good! Highly recommend

Great cast, this is more drama role for Melissa than comedy though, and I loved it! Very Goodfella's ish (although not as epic in scope of years) but highly recommended. Highlight for me was Elisabeth Moss in yet another fantastic role!

I enjoyed this movie.

A very different take on the mobster story, which is much appreciated. Probably not so far off from what could have really happened either, knowing how many women are actually behind so many things that occured in history that men have taken credit for. Great acting by McCarthy, she never disappoints, and Haddish and Moss were equally wonderful in their roles.

Loved the movie, a portrait of how women were treated, and to some extent still are, and how strong they can be. Also really enjoyed seeing a more serious side of acting for Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish, in my opinion they did an excellent job.

These high caliber actresses provided an excellent performance in this film. An interesting film. I'd recommend it.

Kinda sucked. The story is okay but at large parts illogical and lot of things just happen the way they do to give the protagonists a win. The protagonists themselfs aren't personalities you want to root for because they are simply unlikeable and rude to everyone for no reason. It's just another piece of pseudo women empowering media that plays in a world where everything that has a male reproductive organ is sexist and an a**hole (or a detached serial killer) and women get to be the same because men did it first. When you want to make an empowering movie you should create a story where the protagonists have to struggle to achieve. Being just female doesn't count and is too weak to base a whole movie on. Especially when the gender doesn't play a role in the story which was the case in this movie. All the problems the protagonists had to face originated in stealing the business from other gangsters and the gangsters would've reacted the same way if not even worse if the protagonists were male. Which is not a problem in itself but the way the movie was focused it is clear that seeing a woman struggle in a cruel world of man was the original intent of the movie. Creating a women empowering story has been done successfully before, therefore it's not impossible and certainly not difficult when you payed attention in story telling and movie directing classes. In this movie it's just: new scene with music and win, next scene with music and win, next scene w.... It's just boring to watch.

This movie went beyond my expectation. When I saw Melissa Mccarthy, I thought this is going to be another blast of good comedy from this queen but I was shocked to see such a different side of her and loving it! Huge love for Tif.H and Liz.M, fantastic as ever from just like they hit it in Like a Boss and Invisible Man. The movie for that matter, is surprisingly inclined towards a very heavy subject too. I guess women will do worse than men when they had too. Quite true to reality. Overall this movie depicted a great example of women empowerment and absolutely much better than most movies nowadays. Who cares about low ratings? This movie definitely rocks.

As someone who loves action movie, this movie is a phenomenal is a satire to a woman's view point of her life and choices. This movie plays into the empowerment women give themselves when life is not going their way.

I'm a big Melissa McCarthy fan so almost anything with her will get me into the theater, and this had a couple of other good additions as well in Elisabeth Moss and Tiffany Haddish. Based on a comic book series, this story tells that of these 3 women who take over their husbands mob business while they serve a jail sentence. The story could have been better early on to flesh out the characters. Pretty early on in the film their husbands are sent away and they take over. However, my main issue with the film was believability. I wasn't buying that these women, in 1978 in Hell's Kitchen New York could muscle out the other men who were looking to take over for their husbands while they were gone. Short of walking tall with a confident look on their face, the story was clunky and Elisabeth Moss was really the only character to have an interesting character arc out of the 3.

Una volta passata la novità iniziale, con l'ingresso nel mondo del crimine delle 3 protagoniste, il film si perde in un susseguirsi di gestione ordinaria degli eventi, che ogni tanto vengono intramezzati da qualche scossone. Forse il problema principale sta nella mancanza di simpatia che si prova, almeno a tratti, verso le tre donne. E il finale non offre assolutamente nulla di interessante.