Chef

This review may contain spoilers.

This film leaves you feeling hungry, both for some delicious food and for more of an ending. I would give Chef a 7/10.

Chef is a wondrous comedic story about the relationship between father and son, creativity and expression, journey and finding one self and, rather impressively, the growing Hispanic culture in the USA. The music for this film was perfect, I just had this rush of energy every time it changed to a new song. I loved how aesthetically pleasing this film was, from the preparation of food to the journey on the food truck or how Twitter was portrayed.

John Leguizamo, who played Martin, was the comedic centre of this film as well as the face of His panic diversity; he had a lot of heart that meant he was immediately likable. Emjay Anthony, who played Percy, was a great child actor and his admiration or disappointment in his father always hit home. Scarlett Johannson, who played Molly, served as Carl's external 'conscience' and a lot of self reflection came from this character. Dustin Hoffman, who played Riva, was a great businessman and clearly not a bad guy and I think making the character not so much as bad, but rather, human was very tricky to do.

It was Jon Favreau, who played Carl Casper, that made the movie. He was a brilliant leading man and went on such great character development. His performance as a father and a chef was nothing short of inspiring.

Chef let itself down in that it's editing and pacing were rather abrupt and quick at moments. The plot also came to a very quick end and the rekindled romance between Carl and Inez needed to be done better.

Sofia Vergara, who played Inez, wasn't really all that crucial to the story, she pushed the plot in a certain direction then quickly faded out of the plot for quite a few scenes. Robert Downey Jr, who played Marvin, was a weird character and fairly nonsensical; his role in the film felt purely like a celebrity cameo for the hell of it.