Review of Table 19 (2017) by David W — 02 Jun 2017

I was very excited to see this movie after seeing the first trailer, but I'm sad to say that it didn't live up to expectation. With such a great cast I expected the acting to be very good all-around, but that wasn't the case.

Anna Kendrick's performance felt inconsistent many times, Tony Revolori's character was extremely one dimensional and insufferable, June Squibb was decent, but it felt like she may have phoned it in for this movie.

Lisa Kudrow, Craig Robinson, and Stephen Merchant were the shining characters and even Andy Daly was great in his small appearances. The dialogue at times felt dull and sometimes heavy-handed. The writers seemed to just throw in anything that they felt would have an emotional impact on the audience in the second half of the movie, but it doesn't work because they showed the characters to be annoying egotists in the first half.

Overall, while the movie has some shining moments, they don't make up for it's many glaring flaws.