A good movie

Since I kept hearing some pretty good things about this flick, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, eventually, I wasn’t disappointed and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Honestly, it was nothing really amazing but it was still nonetheless a really refreshing comedy served by a great cast  (Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith and many others). Not long ago, I actually watched ‘Amour’, one of the best dramas I have seen lately, and I couldn't help thinking that, even though the senior population is growing exponentially in the Western countries, there are only a few movies focusing on them so it was a real joy to see such a delightful comedy about this forgotten section of our population. The concept was also pretty intriguing. Indeed, instead of spending the end of your life in a dreary retirement home in England, France or in the Netherlands, why shouldn’t we go to a fancy hotel in India with the same amount of money and much more stimulation? With this in mind, I didn’t care much about the struggle of Dev Patel to manage to run the hotel, it was a rather tedious sub-plot and it would have worked better if it would have been a decent but healthy establishment and therefore, focusing the plot on those elderly British citizens. Still, to conclude, even though it was not really a masterpiece, it remains a really nice comedy and it is definitely worth a look.

7/10