Bradley Cooper is Combustible Chef in First Full ‘Burnt’ Trailer

After watching the above trailer, I can’t decide if Burnt-directed by John Wells of August: Osage County fame-is going to be an annoying, two-hour-long string of cliches, or if it might actually be good.

Chef Adam Jones (Cooper) had it all – and lost it. A two-star Michelin rockstar with the bad habits to match, the former enfant awful of the Paris restaurant scene did everything different every time out, and only ever cared about the thrill of creating explosions of taste.

Never underestimate a man with everything to lose. Even the fact that he’s a bad-boy chef in the first place seems cynically aimed at appealing to a female demographic, and it checks off all the other “chick-lit dashing rogue” boxes on the way. But I could be wrong! Yet Burnt is the last of his three 2015 films where he is the lead, and it will showcase him on Oct.23.

Sienna Miller, Emma Thompson, Uma Thurman, Omar Sy, Daniel Brühl and Matthew Rhys also star. This comedy runs on high emotions as it explores the love of food, of another person and power of second chances. To have his own kitchen and get that third Michelin star, he needs to do his best and have the best people beside him, including Sienna Miller‘s character, Helene. “Maybe I just wanted it really badly, and when I got it, I didn’t know how to hold onto it”, says Jones in a voiceover.