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Overall | 3.5 |
A chef assembles a crew together in an attempt to create the best restaurant ever.
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl, Riccardo Scamarcio, Omar SyComedy | 100% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
English SDH, Spanish
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
UV digital copy
Region A (C untested)
Movie | 3.0 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 2.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Not every great work of art hangs in a museum, projects on a screen, or flows from speakers. Every day, around the world, great works of art -- delicately, assuredly assembled by masters -- literally go in one and, a bit later on, out the other. Top-end food is the most fleeting and in some ways fungible of the world's masterpieces, yet the dedication to the craft, the artistry behind the construction, and the skill required to get it all just right -- from the presentation on the plate to its power on the palate -- is the result of not only years of training and, obviously, a love for the art form but also the trust in others to harvest the best ingredients, mold the finest cookware, and create the perfect environment in which to consume the end product. That's no easy task, but add in a chef's innate drive and the demands of the job and the recipe is set for greatness with a sprinkling chance of disaster, which, in that regard, doesn't really set him or her apart from any of the world's other great artists. Director John Wells' (August: Osage County) Burnt tells the story of a master chef on the road to redemption and hungry to prove his worth to his critics, both those who critique for a living and those who said he had no chance to ever return, successfully, to what he loves most: the kitchen.
The chef.
Burnt's digitally sourced 1080p transfer satisfies across the board. The image is clean and comes effortlessly detailed. It finds a nice balance between digital flat and film deep. Facial detail is robust and complex features come through easily. Pores, hair, textured foods, clean lines around the kitchen and dining areas, and some of the rougher brick, stone, and concrete details around London exteriors present with attractive sharpness. Colors are extravagant. Bradley Cooper's blue eyes pierce every scene and raw food ingredients -- all sorts of reds, oranges, yellows, and greens -- distinctly contrast with the kitchen's smoother silver and white areas and accents and darker cookware. Black levels raise no alarms and flesh tones are full and healthy. Light banding appears in spots and moderate noise lingers throughout but other maladies range from nonexistent to hardly a problem. This is an attractive transfer from Anchor Bay.
Burnt may not scorch sound systems, but the track offers some unique sonic flavors to satisfy the ears. This is a dialogue-driven film that presents the spoken word with clean definition and precise center placement, but there are more than a few sonic treats to enjoy. General restaurant atmospherics are nicely filling. The dining room's more reserved ambience sets a delicate scene that nicely, yet sharply, contrasts with the much more aggressively hectic kitchen area where clanking pans, bustling cooks, sizzling entrees, and other bits of kitchen wonder flood the listening area and offer a more pronounced and fuller stage envelopment. Other effects like light city exterior details, driving rain in chapter five, a throaty motorcycle rev, or a bustling Burger King restaurant will win over listeners with well rounded and exacting details. A few discrete and directional details are to be enjoyed when tempers flare and objects are tossed about the stage.
Burnt contains a standard foursome of extras: commentary, deleted scenes, featurette, and Q&A. A voucher for a UV digital copy is included
with purchase.
Burnt is an enjoyable movie that's extraordinarily well done on the surface but still a little too raw on the inside. It offers an absolutely delightful look inside one of the world's top kitchens but a fairly hollow examination of the man in the middle of the culinary mayhem. Most of the movie's hard work is betrayed by an easy way out following a transformative moment, killing the momentum of the scene and most of the film. Otherwise, Cooper and his co-stars -- particularly Daniel Brühl and Omar Sy -- are terrific and believable, at least around the kitchen. Anchor Bay's Blu-ray release of Burnt does feature fine video and audio. Supplements are average in both quality and quantity. Worth a look.
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