i wish i liked love's kitchen more than i did i honestly found it pretty disappointing because the
narrative was not interesting credit where credit is due our protagonist rob played by dougrey
scott is scottish and to have a protagonist in a film that is not a scottish based film
that has a very thick scottish accent is very unusual and i will say there are about 30 accents
in this film is one of the most realistic films in terms of accents that i have
ever seen and i'm starting to realize that there's a good reason my films don't put 30
different accents into one film because it kind of just makes your ear jump around a lot and
doesn't allow you to focus on the things that are important to the narrative
with that aside it sounded like it could have been interesting but i feel like the execution
let itself down and they're just relying on gordon ramsay to promote it to be perfectly honest this
was released in 2011 written directed by james hacking and stars as i said dockery scott as
our protagonist rob he at the very beginning of the film we find out that he loses his wife and
then flash forward however many months and he has an opportunity to buy out a um pub
and he is encouraged to do this by his real life tv chef friend gordon ramsay ramsey of course
needs no introductions and it's all about him setting up this new business he has a
young daughter in his life and he also has a potential romantic interest in the form of a
an american food critic kate and played by claire ferlani and you know it's questioning whether or
not this new avenue with his business will be successful but also whether or not he will ever
find love again after having of course relatively recently lost his wife it's interesting it's
chaotic sometimes in a good way sometimes in a way that just makes it feel scattered
the mix of about 30 accents does make it quite hard to follow i will be perfectly honest and
i never thought i'd say that because i'm one of those people who campaigns for more realism in
films and when you have everybody who's speaking with rp and everybody looks like they were all
raised in the same little area even though they're all working in manhattan and should
obviously be coming from different walks of life and being hypothetical it feels unrealistic
but this one has proved to me that actually maybe you need to find a happy medium between the two
the narrative itself wasn't as interesting as it could have been um the development didn't really
throw as many curveballs i didn't really care about some of the relationship development between
the characters there were times when it worked well and i was curious to know what would happen
next but for the most part i didn't care to be quite blunt about it i just didn't think there was
any real emotional investment to be had in in a lot of the characters would i recommend it i'm on
the fence you know i love recommending british films because it's rare that we get to do that
but i find that quite hard to do oh interestingly holly gibbs is in this i loved holly gibbs and
tracy beaker so that for me was a pull factor it was great to see her in this
but the film itself the narrative wasn't interesting the execution was pretty boring
i feel like they've just plonked gordon ramsay in this to try and sell it with his name
dilgray scott gave a great performance i definitely enjoyed
the character i felt his motivations were believable i felt his emotions were realistic
but unfortunately that's pretty much where the positive aspects end