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Burnt
Burnt

6.5

Burnt

R·2015·100m

Summary

Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.

Crew

Director

John Wells

Screenplay

Steven Knight

Story

Michael Kalesniko

Reviews

Rangan

Rangan

February 4, 2016

7

> It is not perfect, but delicious.

Movies about foods and chefs are quite popular since the beginning of the cinema. Not only among the food lovers, but the movie fans, critics as well common people decides to book a table at a nearby best restaurant after watching a delicious film like this. At least one movie in every year makes us to talk about the foods for that entire week. Like the Jon Favreau's last year's 'Chef', this is 2015's.

On this theme, movies are always quite similar, except subplots like family, friends and sometimes foods from the different part of the earth as well. This film was not that brilliant when it comes to innovation in the story. The same old chef who comes back strongly after losing everything to get a another star. So what makes this special is that the actors, everyone was awesome. Even in smaller parts, especially the lead one Bradley Cooper makes all the difference.

There was a twist, but it does not make us say wow. Definitely it was a bit fun, filled with some dark humours. The slow, dull storytelling was almost like a soulless product, but anyway, kind of it worked well due to the style of film setting that created to narrate it. Feels like in the many scenes, characters were intensely dragged in like the cameos, otherwise it would have been very plain. Overall, it's not a best food/chef movie I've ever seen, but very much watchable and enjoyable.

7/10

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$20,000,000.00

Revenue:

$36,606,743.00

Keywords

career
london, england
drug addiction
diva
restaurant
redemption
drugs
chef
french cuisine
come back
fine dining
relaxed
straightforward