Tony
"I was — to be frank — a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, and badly in need of a good ass-kicking."
- Release date
- 2026
- Runtime
- 1h46
- Audience rating
- Budget
"I was — to be frank — a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, and badly in need of a good ass-kicking."
Painfully boring.
I got tricked by the trailer, showing essentially the only interesting part of the movie.
This movie is 1h40 and it feels like 3 hours — IT'S SO SLOW! It categorically refuses to do anything entertaining until the midpoint, where you get a little bit of conflict before returning to nothing happening.
I was so confused by what it was even trying to communicate. The main character, Tony, seems to very poorly lie his way through everything and get rewarded anyway. Said lying is even more insulting when every other character is revealed to have uncritically believed his extravagant, poorly constructed stories. The whole time, the movie seems to communicate that he's a bad liar who simply gets a pass, but that's not the case: the other characters are genuinely devastated when they're told the obvious truth. The love interest is equally unbelievable, as she agrees to hang out with Tony after his cook friend cracks her boyfriend's skull on the pavement. This hilariously causes them to break up, since the boyfriend gets pissed that she would even entertain the idea, conveniently freeing her up to date our protagonist. Baffling.
The movie loves to meander through slow, pointless scenes, but in the last 20 minutes the writers remember they need to tie everything up and have to speedrun a forced conflict, the usual third-act low point and a redemption, in 10 minutes flat.
I was relieved to leave my seat when it was over.
"I was — to be frank — a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, and badly in need of a good ass-kicking."
A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.
Painfully boring.
I got tricked by the trailer, showing essentially the only interesting part of the movie.
This movie is 1h40 and it feels like 3 hours — IT'S SO SLOW! It categorically refuses to do anything entertaining until the midpoint, where you get a little bit of conflict before returning to nothing happening.
I was so confused by what it was even trying to communicate. The main character, Tony, seems to very poorly lie his way through everything and get rewarded anyway. Said lying is even more insulting when every other character is revealed to have uncritically believed his extravagant, poorly constructed stories. The whole time, the movie seems to communicate that he's a bad liar who simply gets a pass, but that's not the case: the other characters are genuinely devastated when they're told the obvious truth. The love interest is equally unbelievable, as she agrees to hang out with Tony after his cook friend cracks her boyfriend's skull on the pavement. This hilariously causes them to break up, since the boyfriend gets pissed that she would even entertain the idea, conveniently freeing her up to date our protagonist. Baffling.
The movie loves to meander through slow, pointless scenes, but in the last 20 minutes the writers remember they need to tie everything up and have to speedrun a forced conflict, the usual third-act low point and a redemption, in 10 minutes flat.
I was relieved to leave my seat when it was over.
A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.
