Cook Up a Storm Review

One of the best takes on a cooking theme in recent times, Cook Up A Storm lives up to its name and thrills its viewers. The cinematography is beautiful and the kind of effort put in to make it appear authentic is commendable.

The movie is about a son of World-class chef, Sky Ko, trying to keep up to his father's expectations, yet the latter disregards him and hates his lack of culinary brilliance. He abandons his son with a friend of his, who runs a restaurant and asks him to teach him the craft, while he would go on to establish himself as the Masterchef.

Many years later, the now grown up Sky is the best cook of the restaurant and people throng to the place to have the food he makes. One fine day, a new Michelin star restaurant opens right in front, with a Korean chef, Paul Ahn, running it. His agents boast of his talent as he learnt the skills from abroad. His creations are artistic and contain visual treats that no one in the town had seen before. Soon there are fireworks between the two chefs who keep competing . At one instance, Sky's restaurant is threatened to be shut to cater to the customers of Paul. Hence, a competition is held between the two to decide who gets the area. Paul wins but things get a rough turn, when Paul is expelled from his own restaurant, deceivingly, and a female chef replaces him, when the secret is revealed that Paul cannot taste salt.

In order to make amends and get their share of prestige and rights, Paul and Sky team up and enter a global culinary contest, where the last round is a face off with the Masterchef, Sky's dad. The duo win the competition till the last round, where only one chef should face the master. Paul asks Sky to do it and make his father realize his mistake. In the final face off Sky prepares a simple dish of noodles, just like his father made for him before abandoning him and presents it to his father and leaves. Sky's dad tastes it and sheds a tear.

The fantastic culinary creations created in the movie are so beautiful and leave you salivating and wanting for more. The idea is novel and the implementation is superb. This movie has a recipe for success and the right mixture of the various cinematic ingredients like love, loyalty and happiness just adds the icing on the cake!!!