I did not know what to expect from Chef considering Jon Favreau previous work being the blockbuster superhero Iron Man franchise. Here the glamorous talents of Scarlett Johanson and Robert Downey Jr. (from the same Iron Man series) are shockingly wasted with poor dialogues and unimaginative writing. Still Jon somehow carries the film on his own shoulders making me consider it as commendable effort.
Favreau stars as Carl Casper,a very talented chef who does not get to prepare his golden menu because of his restrictive restaurant manager who believes people wont buy his 'artsy' food. Things get worse when a food critic bashes the food Jon is forced to serve, which results in face-off where Carl loses his temper.That goes viral on the internet and the chef loses his reputation and his job. He then decides to get back to basics by opening a food truck so that he is able to serve good food for the people. Sofia Vergara has a considerably smaller role as Carl's ex-wife and their son Percy (Emjay Anthony) feels that his dad is too busy with his cooking to spend some quality time with him. As we the film progresses we get to the familiar father-son getting closer story line.
The ending was surprisingly bland apart from being predictable. At almost 2 hours Chef fills a bit too over stretched with its feel- good vibes and aromatic cooking scenes. While the dad-chemistry gets a good amount of focus and the duo is likable but the same cannot be said about any other character. The story follows a predictable arc and the dialogues are nothing great. The silver-lining here is without any doubt is the food-porn show where the scrumptious shots of variety of food preparations to beautiful background score are irresistible. Whenever those mouth-watering scenes turned up I was excited while rest of the time I didn't care much.
RATING: [2.5/5]
Favreau stars as Carl Casper,a very talented chef who does not get to prepare his golden menu because of his restrictive restaurant manager who believes people wont buy his 'artsy' food. Things get worse when a food critic bashes the food Jon is forced to serve, which results in face-off where Carl loses his temper.That goes viral on the internet and the chef loses his reputation and his job. He then decides to get back to basics by opening a food truck so that he is able to serve good food for the people. Sofia Vergara has a considerably smaller role as Carl's ex-wife and their son Percy (Emjay Anthony) feels that his dad is too busy with his cooking to spend some quality time with him. As we the film progresses we get to the familiar father-son getting closer story line.
The ending was surprisingly bland apart from being predictable. At almost 2 hours Chef fills a bit too over stretched with its feel- good vibes and aromatic cooking scenes. While the dad-chemistry gets a good amount of focus and the duo is likable but the same cannot be said about any other character. The story follows a predictable arc and the dialogues are nothing great. The silver-lining here is without any doubt is the food-porn show where the scrumptious shots of variety of food preparations to beautiful background score are irresistible. Whenever those mouth-watering scenes turned up I was excited while rest of the time I didn't care much.
RATING: [2.5/5]