DINNER RUSH (2000) *1/2 It was only a matter of time before they tried a hybrid Italian restaurant/mafioso flick. The question of whether it is possible to do so with any sensible result remains an open one. The desperate rush of characters, in and out of the script, some carrying scrumptuous, if nuevo Italiane, dishes, some merely going into the alley to fornicate under the light, is more irritating than anything else. It's like a bad episode of "Love Boat" in a restaurant. None of the characters are particularly well drawn or appealing, though Danny Aiello has one of those faces that speaks well enough to relieve the writer the necessity of writing good lines. Which is good, because there really aren't any, though the dialogue is probably better than the almost awful music. John Corbett is hopelessly miscast as a guy sitting on a barstool in a suit, who can't think of anything interesting to say either. I guess all kinds of stuff is supposed to be happening, but none of it is particularly interesting until the end, by which time the big surprise is neither surprising nor credible.
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