The story of a brilliant chef with a manner of behavior, like that of Dr. House, could cause bewilderment and rejection, if not for the charm of the actor who played the main character. Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller made a good duet in the tragicomedy "Chef Adams Jones." Reviews of this film could make up a whole brochure of film critic, so we decided to get to know this work better.
Trivial plot?
Watching movie masterpieces stimulates our taste buds to work actively. Arranging on the couch to watch another movie, we are sure to stock up on some food, without this, viewing seems inferior. What can provoke a film in each scene of which there are breathtaking gourmet dishes?
Recently, the film industry has seriously taken up the problem of nutrition. Films on culinary themes with the involvement of leading Hollywood stars are increasingly coming to the big screen. “Chef” with Jean Reno, “Chocolate” with Juliette Binoche, “Eat, Pray, Love” with Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem ... We will not forget the classic picture “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” with the brilliant Johnny Depp. This, of course, is far from a complete list. You will be surprised how many dramatic twists and turns you can spin around the kitchen. Although unlikely. Many of you are probably already fans of the eponymous series of Russian production.
The cast of the film "Chef Adam Jones" (2015)
Reviews about the acting game of Bradley Cooper, who played a major role, are rarely negative. His charming, slightly sad face with piercing blue eyes usually provides film productions with a fairly high rating. I must say that the producers of the film "Chef Adam Jones" reviews expected to receive only laudatory, once approached the choice of actors with such generosity. Cooper's partners on the set were Sienna Miller, Omar C, Daniel Bruhl and Uma Thurman. Such a powerful cast shot quite accurately on an already rather worn-out plot.
The suffering of a talented cook
What if you are a gifted culinary specialist, under whose hands the most ordinary products turn into a work of art, and everything is easy? Usually everything spoils the feeling of dissatisfaction, pushing to try something new. Or maybe the feeling that everything has already been achieved provokes a respectable servant of the system to go beyond it and see how it ends?
Adam Jones, the former best chef in Paris, began to lead a hectic life and ended up losing his job due to addiction to alcohol and drugs. From this moment begins, "Chef Adam Jones." Reviews of the film are not so impartial that this alone should indicate that it deserves attention.
The main character
Director John Wells managed to reveal very subtly the psychological background of any profession, or rather, the psychology of a person who completely surrenders to it. Such people are most often not at all adapted to interact with the surrounding reality or very poorly cope with it. In this case, the presence of a person who is more stable on his feet, more concerned with solving everyday problems, is that necessary lifeline that can pull out a genius drowning in everyday life.
It is such a friend in London that Chef Adam Jones acquires. Reviews of the film contain so many laudatory references to the heroine of Sienna Miller, which involuntarily raises the question: which of them is the main character? A single mother struggling with alcoholism, she at the same time finds enough mental strength in herself not to send Adam with all his spiritual torments to change the diaper for the child, for example, but to listen to him sympathetically and even give wise advice.
Fight for the stars
Returning to London, where he left friends and colleagues, Adam amazingly quickly gathers a team under his command. It seems that all his friends were just waiting for him to decide to start working with them again, and all these years did not hold any grudge. But how can you resist the charm of Bradley Cooper's piercing blue eyes?
Chef Adam Jones set a very difficult task for himself and his team: only four restaurants confirmed the Michelin rating in England and Ireland, and he set out to get all three stars of this authoritative publication in a short time. In order not to reveal the intrigue, we will not write here whether he succeeded - see for yourself.
Interesting Facts
Before filming the movie "Chef Adam Jones," Cooper and Miller co-starred in Sniper. Apparently, their duet therefore turned out to be so harmonious. Interestingly, as a child, Cooper dreamed of becoming either an actor or a cook. In this film, he was lucky to gather his childhood desires together. And, by the way, this is not his first "culinary" role: in 2005-2006 he already played a cook in the series "Secrets in the Kitchen". But Sienna Miller might not be his partner at all. Marion Cotillard and Michelle Williams also auditioned for this role .
The film was released in American rental under the name "Burnt", which means "Burnt." This is a simultaneous reference both to the morale of the hero and to the specific trauma of his work - after all, everything happens in the kitchen.
In 2007, the script of the film was blacklisted as promising, but never realized. John Wells practically breathed a second life into him.
Jones' eloquent tirades, with which he accompanied the process of preparing his culinary masterpieces, are not at all a find for scriptwriters. The main character is a collective image of several famous chefs - Marcus Varein, Gordon Ramsay, Claire Smith. It was Ramsey who was famous for his verbal performances in the kitchen.
Reporting from filming
According to the director of the film, John Wells, all the scenes in the kitchen were shot in real restaurants in London, surrounded by sharpened knives and boiling oil in pans. Moreover, in some episodes, real cooks participated, which charged the actors with even greater excitement. They even tried to cook something. According to the entire crew, the best culinary talents showed Sienna Miller. Jamie Dornan, who played beautifully in a short scene about the heroine's past, did not enter the full-length version. At the preview of the movie “Chef Adam Jones,” the public gave negative reviews about this episode, and as a result, they cut it out.
As Bradley Cooper admitted in an interview with one of the magazines, he managed to safely carry out the central scene with Sienna Miller thanks to their recent joint shootings in American Sniper, which ended a few months before the start of Chef.
"Chef Adam Jones." Movie Reviews (2015)
Today you can find a considerable number of reviews on the "Chef". Not every film that has just been released is honored with so many responses. Not the last role, perhaps, was played by the star cast: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Uma Thurman - such names give rise to confidence that the picture with their participation will be far from ordinary. Did the expectations of the audience come true? Even a cursory glance indicates that quite controversial reviews about the movie "Chef Adam Jones" turned out. Those who watched it, expecting a grandiose dramatic game from Bradley Cooper, were clearly disappointed. However, those viewers who hoped heartily to laugh at sharp dialogues, since the film was declared in the genre of tragicomedy, also write that the events did not work out of this attempt. The most unrestrained of those who saw this film even called it "under-dramatics and under-comedies." Many viewers complain about the plot plot rather weak in drama, unjustifiably pathos of the hero’s monologues and the strained psychologization of a trivial, in general, problem. They use standard language about the Hollywood style of wrapping vulgar ideas in a beautiful wrapper and provoking fake inspiration from the spectator by the strength of the spirit of the hero boarding life's twists and turns.
More loyal viewers who wrote reviews about the movie "Chef Adam Jones" note that he compares favorably with other professional cinema masterpieces by his greater professionalism. All the highlights of haute cuisine are carefully selected and poured out by the scriptwriter's generous but wise hand on the big screen. Some of the viewers even got the impression that in this project "delicacies outplayed the actors."
In general, we can say that the film "Chef Adam Jones" (2015) collected mostly negative reviews. But film critics spoke much more harshly. It is known that in the American box office the film failed dramatically. Its rating abroad, according to some sources, is only 30 percent. On the Russian site "Kinopoisk" his rating is somewhere between 6 and 7 points, which corresponds to the level of a mediocre film.
In a word, the audience has different and rather conflicting impressions of this project. Well, this is a great occasion to form your own opinion. Even if the game of actors and the storyline do not captivate you, it is always nice to once again see how elegant the food on a plate may look.