Gary Jason Lewis

Whelp', they have done it again! Political correctness and feminism have yet again destroyed a movie genre that I love. The Gangster/Mob Movie genre is now the victim of good intentions gone awry. This film is about three wives of Irish mobsters/crooks who embark upon their own criminal empire because of how society and their "family" have treated them. They take their future into their hands and become the neighborhood mafia in what is called "Hell's Kitchen" in New York. Side note: The title of the film, The Kitchen, is a double entendre. One is a reference to Hell's Kitchen and the other is a reference to the saying that "A woman's place is in the kitchen". Basically, this was just a poorly written, poorly acted, poorly directed movie that was totally unbelievable. It stars Melissa McCarty, Tiffany Haddish, and Elizbeth Moss. It was written and directed by Andrea Berloff. Without giving away any spoilers, all I can say is that they tried to make these women believable as gangsters and they failed miserably. I never believed them, they never evoked a sense of fear and awe and the movie did again what they always do with female-centered movies . . . they give them unrealistic power that is neither earned or proven with years of training and/or ruthlessness. And when I say it was a bad movie, I am comparing it to the other classic mob movies like Goodfellas, Casino, The Godfather, Mean Streets, The Departed, American Gangster; etc. It just doesn't hold up in any way. I wish they would just take the time to make a realistic movie and give it a chance to be good but instead, they just switch women for men and think it's going to work and it almost never does. I thought the movie did poorly because it wasn't marketed or promoted properly but much to my chagrin it was just because it was a bad movie. I would give this film 👊 out of Five Fists of Death! ut don't take my word for it, go spend your dime!