A movie is like a three course meal. The motion picture itself is the main course and the trailers are the appetisers designed to make you want more and to help you sample what you ordered. Finally, you have the reviews and opinions, which come out after, but we’re not talking about that aspect right now.

The trailer for The Dinner (starring Steve Coogan, Richard Gere and Laura Linney) has a palate somewhat familiar with that of Roman Polanski’s Carnage.

Two couples get together over a nice dinner to sort out what to do with their children who have committed a crime. The trailer itself doesn’t exactly lend itself to showing anything new or exciting, instead choosing to make an attempt at building a tense and thrilling atmosphere, but falling short as no body comes across as particularly interesting over the two minutes they are on screen.

If this trailer is anything to go by, it’s less of a Michelin Star meal, and more like something off of McDonald’s £1 menu.

The Dinner is out in cinemas in 2017!