Jue zhan shi shen

Is a story that takes advantage of the trend of the moment (chef) to send a message to humanity, without losing the perspective of encouraging the human to prepare to compete and try to always be the best, however we are the same anywhere in the world , We forget the most important, our responsibility (guide, teach, love), but nature is so wise that it gives us the ability to challenge the half world and face our own executioner, to receive as a trophy a simple .. "Son, well done"

"Cook Up a Storm" is a Comedy - Drama movie in which we watch two chefs, a Cantonese street cook and a French-trained Michelin-starred chef preparing for a very famous cooking competition. Soon they figure out that they have more in common than what they think.

I enjoyed this movie because it had a very interesting plot and contained some very clever plot twists that I did not expect. The direction which was made by Wai-Man Yip it was good and he succeeded on presenting his main characters very well, something that helped the audience follow their story, better understanding them and even relate to them. In addition to this, the interpretations of both Nicholas Tse who played as Gao Tian Ci and Yong-hwa Jung who played as Paul were very good and the differences of their characters created a nice result. All in all, I have to say that "Cook Up a Storm" is a nice movie and I recommend everyone to watch it.

The usual problems that the Chinese movie script writers and their directors could never improve:

Lousy and child movie ideas and concept, weak and childish plots and scenarios, bad and pretentious dialog writing, terrible, weak, talent-less, unnecessary supporting actors, bad costumes and make-up skills, over the top and overkill settings.

Some of the dishes in this lame film are simply beautiful and amazing, but in the end, you would find out those western cuisines are so pretentious, not as good as a stir-fried dish.

The young Chinese chef was nicely and naturally performed, others, were simply ruined by the childish and pretentious screen-play. All the supporting characters, especially some those male ones, were so obviously without any acting talents and were further ruined by the ridiculous script and dialog.

This film is just a bit better tolerable than the stupidest film of the decade: The Great Wall.

Good performance , good cooking, good visuals. Story is not that new but still its nice. and interesting movie.

This is a hard movie to define since it obviously suffers from local cinema issues, yet there is quite a beautiful story to discover undernwath it all. I would specially praise the CGI and the actual food, they both look absolutely stunning. If there was something that I would genuilnly change in this movie it would be the pacing and yet I still can't help but love this movie.