The Worst Film Ever

Beautiful, moving film.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The plot is very solid as well as the storyline. Zeta-Jones and Eckhart did a good job in both their respective roles. The chemistry was pure rivalry and competition of who is the better chef, who cooks better, who has good presentation, whose food taste better, etc. The owner/ manager Patricia Clarkson (Paula) does not intervene on the rivalry nor competition but allow Eckhart to take full control of Zeta-Jones's puissance position. Zeta-Jones's character works hard at what she does for many years and crafted her signature dishes which the manager back stabs and double bind the puissance in the respective roles. Lesson learned in the real world: trust no one in any line of work or business. The relationship between Zeta-Jones and Eckhart characters later turns into love, romance and then business partners. Food is the international unspoken language as humans we need to eat to survive. Food binds people together. Majority of the scenes take place inside a restaurant kitchen as the master chef, cooks, Sous chefs, understudies cooks, assistants, etc. which NO ONE wear gloves or hair nets while handling food. This restaurant takes place in NYC and the NYC Health Department is very strict about handling food and food preparation. It appears the entire staff are bear hands which is a complete health code violation incurring loss of business license and hefty fines!! Filming a movie inside restaurant kitchens should appear realistic and close to authentic which means utilizing gloves and hair nets while handling food. Why Eckhart's wear ridiculous orange clogs in the kitchen and pajama-ish pants when he represents a professional Sous chef? The only chef kitchen attire are the staff wearing white chef robes as nothing else is in accordance to NYC Health Department standards.

So upon having to watch this film while both my teacher was out sick and I was in class sick, I really didn't expect much all things being considered. I was pleasantly surprised by this movie's ability to bring up emotions.Won't bother explaining the basics of the film since you can get that straight from the description. What I will say is that although it doesn't have the deepest story or background, it is charming. It will make you feel legitimately happy or sad for the characters and smile at some of it's quirkier moments.Being a romance film, it obviously has the downside of being fairly unrealistic, at least in my opinion. Everything centers around romance in some way and it seems a bit more like a dream that belongs to the girl in high school that works 24/7 to over achieve and yet never gets little affection, so that did leave a bad taste in my mouth when looking back on it.It's something to watch when you have a cold since emotions are the only things you can feel when sick. It's also something you only need to watch once to fully enjoy.If you have the time then go ahead and watch it, but if you're looking for something that will keep you thinking or sitting on the edge of your seat, you're in the wrong place.

Most terrible adaptation of "Mostly Martha". Entirely missing a point of a struggling child and an OCD aunt. Scenes are taken word for word. The kitchen flare is most obnoxious. I wouldn't want to be a "proud" writer of the screenplay, nor I would want to be a director of this rip-off. Not surprisingly, the quintessentially Hollywoodesque actors, who clearly had nothing to do that year decided to avoid real life with this production. Let me list: cheesy dialogs and phrases, full make up during an industrial kitchen job, completely ignored psychiatrist character, the young girl was not made for this role (she belongs in the fairy-tale movies). It also made less than twice the budget, while making roughly four times gross box office of a movie that was made in 2001 (and it's in damn German language!). Unless you are really drunk with a bucket of B&J's, there is no reason to waste your time.

After six years, I finally got to see this and while part of me expected a romantic comedy, the fact this was mostly a drama with some light moments was fine with me as I really enjoyed seeing Ms. Catherine Zeta-Jones playing a chef who's used to doing things her way before having to deal with her niece Abigail Breslin after her mother dies and then also then dealing with another chef at her restaurant played by Aaron Eckhart. This was both a touching and cheerful movie that had me mostly smiling during the most heart tugging scenes. Really, the atmosphere was just good enough for whatever the sequences called for. So on that note, I highly recommend No Reservations.