Sorry, this movie sucks

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Disappointment for a huge fan!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Virginia's skills were bad the whole season and to beat keith and make it to the final two. Its beyond obvious that Gordon sent better chefs home and that she was only making it because of Gordon playing against the better chefs. I respect Gordons chef abilities but I cannot respect manipulating an outcome like he did. Its a slap in the face to those who watch Gordon's shows who are better judges than he gives them credit for. Like he did on masterchef junior where the politicians son instantly becomes 10 times the chef he was and beat out much better chefs. Gordon needs to stop this before his reputation is so destroyed that nobody respects his indorsement.

I did my homework and research on Hell's Kitchen and most of it was as I expected, mostly staged with added drama and conflict to keep the viewer's attention. First of all I watched a number of episodes from various seasons on Amazon Prime (they have all of the seasons and episodes) and all of it looks somewhat legit. After doing some behind-the-scenes investigation via youtube and various articles that I googled I was surprised to find out that Gordon Ramsay is actually a pretty nice guy (off camera) and that his flash temper and outbursts of insanity are primarily staged and a bit scripted. Like all reality shows, the producers know that high reality drama works the best and that's what keeps the ratings high and so that's what they strive for. What did surprise me was that some of the chefs are not chefs at all, but actors. Some real chefs with some actors thrown in creates the mix that makes for good television. After all, this IS a television show with all the hoopla, glitz and tricks needed to keep viewers glued to their TV's. As for the customers (the diners), they're all friends and families of the producers, etc. plus tables full of extras and minor actors hired to make the restaurant look full and it's the extras (actors) who do the complaining to Chef Ramsay if their meals aren't exactly up to standards (under cooked, over cooked, late service, yadda, yadda, yadda). Whenever a customer complains to Ramsay he always lets them have an earful of insults sprinkled with a rich vocabulary of f-bombs and other choice words, etc. (scripted and staged). Speaking of f-bombs, the word is used quite extensively by both Ramsay and the contestants. The grand finale prize is real from what I've read and it's the opportunity for the winner to be an executive chef at an upscale restaurant. By this point the actors have all been eliminated and the final contestants are real chef-wannabe's. The show appears to be quite convincing, but if you pay attention (and also do a little research) you'll see that it's still just good TV full of drama, an unreal reality show.

Twenty of America's most incompetent, chain smoking, and mentally disturbed"professional" cooks compete to win Hell's Kitchen. The prize is the head chef position at one of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants (a job almost never awarded). Wow, what a concept! Almost as interesting as DIY scrotum-piercing or watching paint dry! 20 incompetent dimwits calling themselves "Chef" but the sad reality is that they don't know even the most basic things. Where did these "Chef" learn to cook? Local County Jails around the USA? There are way more interesting thing to waste your time and have a pleasant TV experience, sadly this waste of time isn't.

I firmly believe that Seasons 2-6 are enjoyable for everyone to watch but the show's downward spiral has been immanent since Season 9. First of all, Gordon does a lot of stupid things you would never do in a kitchen, I can forgive getting up and shouting right in people's faces and dismissing them halfway through service due to putting in a terrible performance and sending them to the pantry and warning them to get their act together. It's when he makes stupid-ass decisions you would NEVER make if you were him.Gordon has inexplicably eliminated contestants over contestants who absolutely 200% should've been sent home and this isn't a rare occurrence this happens at least 2-3 times every season. Some of the worst examples include Elsie over Jessica, Virginia over Garrett, Sara and Keith Shayna over Matt/Rosann, Bobby over Jen, Benjamin over Jason, Emily over Melissa Don(k)ey, Amanda over Carrie, Jamie over Carrie and Elise, Natalie,Elizabeth and Jennifer over Elise, Patrick over Tiffany, Robyn over Kimmie and Brian, Christian over Jeremy/Danielle, Dan over Michael and Anthony over Zach, Gabriel over Richard, Ashley over Aaron, Fernando, Sterling and especially Santos over Roe, Christine over Sarah, Josh over Alison and Milly coming in 4th place whilst Michelle came in 3rd place seemingly only because Milly made some mistakes on the final black jacket service.It gets more stupid in the dinner services as Gordon very often throws a whole team out the kitchen when mistakes are coming off ONE station and ONE station only or an INCREDIBLY small minority of the team is making mistakes, you CAN'T do that in a professional kitchen as it's the equivalent of throwing in the towel. Starting from Season 4, Gordon has (once a season or two) forced a contestant (or two/three or even the entire team on two occasions by no fault of the majority's own) to entirely eat a poorly prepared food rather than telling them to taste it and move it. Starting from Season 2, Gordon would sometimes take a contestant to the pantry as a way of warning them to wake up and for the majority of the time, he used it well. Starting from Season 13 however, Gordon would take the WHOLE TEAM to the pantry rather than the one/two individual(s) screwing up and inexplicably telling them to have a meeting, he did this twice before in Season 10 and 12 but it was nowhere near as stupid and common as this. It gives me reasons to assume that Gordon is deliberately doing these stupid things for certain reasons. 1. Gordon has developed an ego where he thinks that "Well it's my kitchen, my show so I can do whatever I want with these people." 2. He just wants to please his audiences by doing this as it can be very entertaining 3. It is a ratings ploy by FOX who are telling him to deliberately do these stupid things 4. Gordon just doesn't know how to make a right decision 5. He's does these moronic things he is now doing in Hell's Kitchen to make the contestant screwing up feel even worse for what they did. Whatever it is, Gordon really needs to bring the show back to it's Season 1-5/6 roots.