Burnt is a
comedy-drama about cooking, starring Bradley Cooper. The movie’s storyline,
however, might make you want to storm out of the cinema and demand your money
back. The first 20 minutes offer nothing captivating—just actors trying to
convince you they’re worth watching. You’ll applaud their acting but hate what
they’re serving. This movie feels like it was written by someone who felt they
were the most important person in the room. The amount of narcissistic characters
in this movie made me want to scream.
After the first 20
minutes, which were a waste of time, the movie starts to get funnier, but not
funny enough to make you smile, just funny that you could have gotten bet use
of your money burning it on the gas stove. This is a movie for food lovers, but
it’s nothing like Chef (2014). Chef had a storyline that
kept you invested, wondering how things would turn out. It surprised you with
events you couldn’t predict from the start. Burnt, on the other hand,
gives you nothing in the first few minutes and then dumps everything on you all
at once.
There are no
surprises here because you’ll guess the outcome early on.
Here’s the gist
of Burnt: Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper) wrecked his career as a chef and
dragged others down with him. After punishing himself for his mistakes, he
decides to return to the job he loves most. Now, Adam has to assemble a team to
make his kitchen the best.
The arrogance of
Cooper’s character, Adam Jones, is one of the movie’s biggest problems. His
arrogance is supposed to show how passionate chefs are about cooking, but
instead, it comes off as, “This guy can get any girl he wants, and he’s the
best cook ever, which is why other chefs put up with him.” When you have a
character like this, it’s better if he’s the villain. But when he’s the hero
and everything goes his way, the movie loses any sense of surprise and becomes
a waste of precious time. What is the point of seeing a movie where the lead
gets everything he wants, even though he does not deserve it.
In the
end, Burnt underperforms. It fails to deliver anything worthwhile,
and when it comes to leaving you with a memorable scene to describe to a
friend, it comes up empty.
Go see something else—leave this movie be.
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