The Dinner Party (II) (2009) User Reviews (5)

The Least Thrilling Thriller Ever

[noway234-1 · 1/10 · 12 March 2013]

Take a bottle of the best sleeping medication you could find. Give it a movie budget and an editing bank and that bottle of sleeping pills could churn out something much more exciting than this movie. It's not thrilling, it's not dark, and it put me off having Dinner Parties ever again because it was so boring. There was nothing in it that suggested it was a thriller. I think someone tried to poison people, but that could've just been me hoping someone poisoned me so I wouldn't have to watch this movie anymore. I could handle it being bad, bad movies are still sometimes worth seeing because they're so bad. But no, the acting is OK, it looks half decent, everything is just OK, but that's the problem. It's blandly OK, no one excels, no one bombs. Everything is so one note that there's nothing to read into this other than they just were bored.

The cover art I saw had a picture of 2 people at a table, both dead, one shot in the head and the other also at least mortally wounded. The quote on the cover called it "A Brilliant Psychological Thriller". I would've loved to have seen that movie, it would've been great. What I got was a limp drama with a murder in it somewhere but I don't remember where because it was so bland and tensionless that it didn't stick with me. Whoever called this a Brilliant Psychological Thriller needs to go look those 3 words up in a dictionary, and then bash their heads in with that same book just to ensure they know what those words mean.

As an Australian, a citizen of the nation that made this film, I apologise. I apologise that we let you see this and that we didn't just make The Loved Ones 2 which would've been infinitely better than this. We are sorry and hope that you can forgive our misdeed of making this film, we knew not what we did and we hope not to do it again.

Most anti-climactic film Iv'e ever seen, it's impossible to spoil because nothing happens

[ussrusagirl222 · 1/10 · 3 March 2013]

This movie description was very misleading, from the cover with the gun (there are no guns in this film- they are illegal in Australia so it was a flat out lie) and from the blurb. It's got NOTHING to do with "angela" wanting to kill her guests, she only wants to commit suicide with her ex boyfriend. For some stupid reason, her ex brings his new girlfriend with him to parade in front of his mentally unstable drug addicted (he knows this) ex girlfriend. He is stupid enough to do this AND drag his new girlfriend along, which is painful to watch. Yet, despite this potential "conflict"- no confrontations even happen! Why he is even at his exes house is anyones guess- so my ability to find any of this plausible was going downhill fast. To make it worse, and remove all tension- the people KNEW what she was planning, its just that no one wanted to warn the guy and avoided "getting involved" and simply left after dinner, which was infuriating to watch and did nothing to help the plot. Anti climax all the way. It was an immature film about immature and unlikeable characters.

I noticed the DVD cover also includes a picture of a man with a gun, having shot himself. Why? In Australia, guns are ILLEGAL. Don't expect any guns (or any kind of violence at all) It's just a cheap way to try and make this film look exciting, or even thrilling and action orientated. It's not. At all. There is not even a fight or a struggle. I was disappointed in how boring it all was.

The acting was terrible, the flow was terrible, lighting, sound- all sucked. Oh and after all this drama and planning to "end paul's life" by drugging him (horror? Um no, not even any blood) angela decides she made a mistake and starts crying. Whoops! Not exactly a "menacing villain" just an idiot- what did she expect? What a pathetic character.. mind you, her ex wasn't much better. Everyone in this movie was stupid and useless, not driving the plot forward AT ALL and it was the most boring dinner party ever, even during the actual dinner. No arguments, no tension- nothing. I don't know why people would even go to Angela's- none of the characters had any back story, absolutely no chemistry with each other or conflict, and they hardly even knew each other- so it was all small talk. All potential was completely wasted. I kept waiting for something to happen, but nothing interesting ever did. Angela is not threatening at all, to call this movie a "thriller" is a long shot. They don't even use cheap thrills. There is no tension or shocking moments, I can't express that enough.

No twists either, so don't expect some big reveal- there is none, its as shallow as you can imagine, and you know the entire plot before the film begins. You learn nothing of anyone, and they are just as one dimensional at the end as when the film began.

I wish I could give it zero

[tnoreen · 1/10 · 18 June 2011]

Possibly the worst movie ever made. Bad lighting, bad directing, bad acting, bad story, bad sound, bad editing. Just bad. If you are a film student and have nothing better to do with 90 mins, watch this so you know what NOT to do in a movie.

While the story had promise, the way it was done was so terrible, it took all my willpower to finish it. The filters used made it appear either pink or orange most of the time. No, it was not my TV.

The sound guy has one mic that we could tell and he parked it near the radio so that the music was insanely loud but you could barely make out what the actors were saying. Not that it mattered, really, as the acting was flat as a board and just as painful to watch as it would have been to listen to.

I would give this movie a 0 if IMDb would let me. Normally, even if I manage to make it through a movie, it deserves a 2-3. This one is abysmal.

Orange...and telling dying people to just stop it

[ccladue-968-316401 · 1/10 · 31 January 2015]

Orange. Neon Orange.

This is a movie about people becoming orange. The cover of the DVD featuring an overhead view of the dead people with their heads on the dinner plates on the table and the gun has absolutely nothing to do with this movie as has already been stated in other reviews. It is not a thriller. It is like a very slow-moving early afternoon soap opera where people slowly become orange as they talk and sometimes shout at each other and eat Asian fast food and steal each other's medication from a drawer with at least fifty orange prescription bottles. (Perhaps this is what is turning them orange.) A young man at the bottom of a flight of stairs talks to a girl for a long time...

He slowly becomes orange. His ears become bright orange. Orange spots mysteriously appear randomly on his face as if an invisible painter is painting his face neon orange. The girl he is talking to slowly becomes orange. She has orange highlights in her hair. Random orange spots appear on her upper arms.

People with orange hands traverse the landscape.

It's about big orange walls and a big orange poster, where more orange people sit and talk. The big orange poster features a big orange title. The bathroom has orange features. There are closeups of orange cigarette lighters and lots of orange things everywhere. Somewhere along the line there is an orange needle full of either heroin, sugar water, or poison. One has to watch closely at this point, because I think a man dies, though he is moving on the bed when they say he is deceased so I cannot be sure.

Earlier, as the man is bleeding to death, the woman is yelling at him to stop this. So if you see someone drowning in their own blood, please inform them to just stop it. If they keep bleeding, just keep yelling until they hear you.

It is a day of orange.

awesome movie

[linda-glass · 10/10 · 8 October 2017]

This movie is based on a true story, which is why its such a good movie, it describes exactly what happened when this young lady invited people to her suicide party. Great movie, one of the best movies I have ever seen, a must see true story. I will never forget this movie for the rest of my life I will remember it.