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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXaff0PpszM

Bradley Cooker Cooper stars as a Chef with a Past, trying to get back on top despite owing some debts. Also starring Sienna Miller and Alicia Vikander, with Uma Thurman, Emma Thompson and Daniel Brühl.

"To get one Michelin Star, you have to be like Luke Skywalker. If you manage to get three, you're Yoda."
"What if he's Darth Vader?"

Trying to do for food what Whiplash did for jazz drumming, I suppose. :P

JP Liz V1

I really enjoyed Cooper's cancelled sitcom Kitchen Confidential, this could be similar only set in London

Looper007

Seems this has slipped by many on here. It's Cooper's second flop at the Box Office, along with Cameron Crowe's Aloha (I wonder if that ever get cinema release over here). Written by Steven Knight of Locke, Eastern Promises and Peaky Blinders. It's nothing new really from rags to riches with Cooper playing a former prodigy Chef in Paris who blew his career on drink, drugs and women and is wanting to get a 3rd Michelin star and redeem himself in London.

It's a decent enough pass the time on a Sunday afternoon in the cinema type film, nothing more nothing else. Daniel Bruhl steals the film as Cooper's gay maitre d' and Sienna Miller is fine as the love interest. Cooper himself is fine but I think he's better when the material asks more of him or when he plays agaisn't type i.e Silver Lining Playbooks, American Sniper. I don't know why Alicia Vikander was doing there, totally wasted in a role that lasts more then 5 minutes as Cooper's former girlfriend, same for Uma Thurman and Lily James (she must have done this before Cinderalla). I wonder if there roles were cut down in the editing room. Omar Sy from Jurassic World and The Intouchables, did far better with a underwritten role

You thought he forgiven Adam for messing up his dreams, then he comes back to sabotage him

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Nothing special, but nothing awful either.

NachoBusiness

I didn't like it at all.

A lot of lines made me cringe.

"I want people to sit at that table and be sick with longing."

Poor stuff.

tunguska

I actually really like Bradley Cooper. I thought he was great in the silver linings playbook and American sniper, but this was just bad in its mediocrity. Cooper just seems to be on auto pilot, like he's phoning it in. Matthew rhys is the only real bright spot but even his decent performance can't do anything here.
I fell asleep, twice. So did the couple beside me. They actually fell asleep mulitple timed between them. It was like one would fall asleep, then wake up seeming surprised they were in a movie theatre. Then the other one would pass out and do the same thing, coming to and Knockin popcorn everywhere. That was more entertaining than the movie.

MilesMorales1

It was perfectly alright. It was just the Bradley Cooper show, really, that happened to be set in a restaurant.