"Chief Adam Jones": reviews of the movie, rating

The story of a brilliant chef with a manner of behavior, like Dr. House, could cause bewilderment and rejection, if not for the charm of the actor who played the protagonist. Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller composed a good duet in the tragicomedy "Chief Adams Jones". Reviews about this film could make a whole brochure of film critic, so we decided to get acquainted with this work closer.

A trivial story?

Viewing movie masterpieces stimulates our taste buds for active work. Setting up on the couch to watch another movie, we are sure to stock up some food, without this the viewing seems inadequate. What can provoke the film, in each scene of which there are mind-blowing gourmet cuisine?

Recently, the film industry is seriously, apparently, tackled the problem of nutrition. Movies on culinary topics 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 ... Let's not forget about the classic picture "Charlie and the chocolate factory" with the genius Johnny Depp. This, of course, is not a complete list. You will be surprised how many dramatic twists and turns can be twisted around the kitchen. Although it is unlikely. Many of you are already probably fans of the eponymous series of Russian production.

The cast of the movie "Chief Adam Jones" (2015)

Reviews of the actor's play Bradley Cooper, who played the main role, are rarely negative. His charming, slightly sad face with piercing blue eyes usually provides film production with a rather high rating. I must say that the producers of the film "Chief Adam Jones" had hoped to receive only praise, once they came to the choice of actors with such generosity. Cooper's partners in the set were Sienna Miller, Omar C, Daniel Brüll and Uma Thurman. Such a powerful cast of actors shot fairly well on the rather well-worn plot.

Suffering talented chef

What to do if you are a gifted cook, under whose hands the most common 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 boss of Paris, began to lead a disorderly lifestyle and eventually lost his job because of his addiction to alcohol and drugs. From this moment the "Chief Adam Jones" begins. Reviews about the film are not so impartial, that this alone should be evidence that it deserves attention.

Non-main character

Directed by John Wells, it was very subtle to reveal the psychological underpinnings of any profession, or rather - the psychology of a person entirely devoted to it. Such people are often not at all suited to interacting with the surrounding reality or are very bad at coping with it. In this case, the presence of a person more steadily standing on their feet, more concerned with the solution of worldly problems, is the necessary life-saving circle that can pull out the genius that is drowning in everyday life. It is this friend in London who is bought by Chief Adam Jones. 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 finds in herself enough mental strength not to send Adam with all his mental anguish to change a diaper to a child, for example, but listen sympathetically to him and even give wise advice.

The struggle for the stars

Returning to London, where he left friends and colleagues, Adam surprisingly quickly recruited the team for his start. It seems that all his friends just waited for him when he decided to start working with them again, and they did not harbor any resentment for all these years. But how can you resist the charm of the piercing blue eyes of Bradley Cooper?

A very difficult task was set for himself and his team chief Adam Jones: the Michelin rating in England and Ireland was confirmed only by four restaurants, and he set himself the goal in a short time to receive all three stars of this authoritative publication. In order not to disclose intrigue, we will not write here, did he succeed in this - see for yourself.

Interesting Facts

Prior to the shooting in the movie "Chief Adam Jones", Cooper and Miller starred in the "Sniper". Apparently, their duet therefore was so well-coordinated. It is interesting that in his childhood, Cooper dreamed of becoming either an actor or a cook. In this film, he was lucky enough to collect his children's desires together. And, by the way, this is not his first "culinary" role: in 2005-2006 he already played a cook in the TV series "Secrets in the Kitchen". But his partner could not be Sienna Miller. This role was also audited by Marion Cotillard and Michelle Williams.

In the American rental movie came out under the name "Burnt", which means "Burned". This is a simultaneous reference to the morale of the hero, and to the specific traumatic danger of his work - in the kitchen, after all, anything happens.

In 2007, the script of the film hit the "black list" as promising, but never realized. John Wells practically breathed into him a second life.

The eloquent tirades of Jones, by which he accompanied the process of preparing his culinary masterpieces, are not at all the find of writers. The protagonist is the collective image of several famous chefs - Marcus Varein, Gordon Ramsey, Claire Smith. It was Ramzi who was famous for his verbal performances in the kitchen.

Report from the shooting

According to the director of the film John Wells, all the scenes in the kitchen were filmed in the real restaurants of London, surrounded by sharply sharpened knives and boiling oil in pans. Moreover, in some episodes participated the true cooks, which charged the actors with even greater excitement. They even tried to cook something themselves. According to the testimony of the entire film crew, Sienna Miller showed the best culinary talents. Jamie Dornan, perfectly played in a short scene about the past of the heroine, in the full-length version did not enter. On the preview of the movie "Chief Adam Jones" the audience gave negative reviews about this episode, as a result of which they cut it out.

As Bradley Cooper admitted in an interview with one of the magazines, he managed to successfully stage the central scene with Sienna Miller thanks to their recent joint shootings in the "American Sniper", which ended a few months before the start of the "Chief".

"Chief Adam Jones." Reviews of the film (2015)

Today, you can find a lot of reviews on the "Chief". Not every newly released film is awarded such a number of responses. Not the least role, perhaps, played a star cast of actors: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Uma Thurman - such names give rise to the belief 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 the rather controversial turned out about the movie "Chief Adam Jones" reviews. Who looked at him, waiting for a grandiose dramatic play from Bradley Cooper, were clearly disappointed. However, those viewers who hoped to laugh heartily at the sharp dialogues, since the film is declared in the genre of tragicomedy, also write that the events from this attempt did not work. The most unrestrained of those who saw this film even called it "underdog and nedocomedy." Many spectators complain about the rather weak plot of the plot, the unjustifiably pathos monologues of the hero and the strained psychologization of a trivial, in general, problem. In the course are the standard formulations about the Hollywood manner of wrapping vulgar ideas in a beautiful wrapper and causing the spectator false enthusiasm by the spirit of the hero, who takes on boarding life's vicissitudes.

More loyal viewers who wrote about the film "Chief Adam Jones" reviews, note that from other culinary film masterpieces, it is favorably more professional. All the highlights of high cuisine are carefully selected and poured out by the generous but wise hand of the screenwriter on the big screen. Some of the viewers even got the impression that in this project "delicacies have changed actors."

In general, we can say that the film "Chief Adam Jones" (2015) reviews collected mostly negative. But much more strongly pronounced the film criticism. It is known that in the American box office the film has abruptly failed. His rating abroad, according to some reports, is only 30 percent. On the Russian site "Film Search" his rating is somewhere between 6 and 7 points, which corresponds to the level of a mediocre film.

In a word, the impressions of this project from the audience are different and quite contradictory. Well, this is a great excuse to make up your own opinion. Even if the actors play and the storyline do not entice you, it's always nice to see how exquisitely the food on the plate looks.