Burnt - 天菜大廚

Burnt (天菜大廚) is an 2015 film. The movie stars Bradley Cooper. The supporting cast include Sienna Miller, Omar Sy, Daniel Brühl, Matthew Rhys, Riccardo Scamarcio, Alicia Vikander, Uma Thurman, and Emma Thompson. The movie primarily takes place in London.

Bradley Cooper plays Adam Jones, a former 2 star chef of an Paris restaurant. The movie starts with him I NOLA shucking 1 million oysters to make amends and being 2 plus years sober from his past life in Paris. After he shucks his 1 millionth oyster, he leaves and flies to London in a grand plan to start a restaurant that will get 3 stars. Along the way, he looks up contacts from his past and young talent to join him. Along the way, there are many failures and character searching.

I really enjoyed this movie. It flowed from beginning to end with a purpose. Get those 3 stars. But the therapist was right, what happens if you don't get it. Life must still go on. For those of us in the regular world, we deal with this much more and wouldn't be in those extraordinary situations that a movie presents.

Because I love watching cooking reality shows, this fictionalized one made it seem much more exciting. Because you get to see what they live through after the cooking stops. The folks in the food services industry have to work really hard.

I watched this movie via Netflix.

Tomb Raider - 古墓奇兵

Tomb Raider (古墓奇兵) is an 2018 film. The movie stars Alicia Vikander as Lora Croft, the main character of the film and also based on the video game of the same name. The supporting cast include Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, and Kristin Scott Thomas.

Lora Croft is an action junky as a bike messenger. We find out that she's running away from her past. The past as a daughter of a rich company owner that perishes on a trip. When an inheritance is on the line, she finds out what could have made her father die. On a trip of finding out, she lands in Hong Kong looking for passage to an island with the answers. When she gets there, a secret organization is out to get them. Can she find out and survive?

I never played the video game from back in the day. I also didn't watch the Angelia Jolie ones either. Which makes this a first for me to the Lora Croft universe. I liked it, she kick some @$$. Daniel Wu's role was relatively minor to the major story, but he did provide some comedic moments.