Burnt

Burnt

Rating 6 out of 10

I was mildly interested in seeing this movie when I first saw the trailers.  I was going to the movies with the young son and this was the only movie starting in what we had to work with.  I have not really watched any of the cooking shows.  Especially those where the head chef yells like an idiot at all the other cooks.  I would probably give him a close look at the nearest frying pan.  Also my tastes in fine dining land somewhere between Copelands and Golden Corral.  I did find it interesting all the behind the scenes of cooking these overpriced meals that my buddy Ted loved so much.

Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper) is the wonder chef who went to Paris as a 19 year old and hit it big.  He was too young and immature at the time and quickly flamed out.  Too much drinking, drugs and women that came with the fame.  He ends up in New Orleans cooking seafood in small roadside dives.

Now his is in London determined to make his way back to the top.  Hopefully a little more mature and determine.  We get to see Chef Jones have tantrums that would make Gordon Ramsey proud.  He assembles his misfit dream team and is in direct completion with friend that runs the neighboring restaurant.  There are side stories with drug dealers from his past in town to collect large sums of money and do him physical harm.

What made this movie watchable for me was Bradley Cooper.  This role is right in his wheelhouse.  He does a good job and is believable as a top chef.  Not crazy about Sienna Miller who plays Helene his sidekick and love interest.

If you like those cooking shows you will enjoy this movie.  I was entertained.  If you are not a hard core Gordon Ramsey fan I'd probably wait to rent.