Diagonaldi
Very well executed
Colibel
Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
SpuffyWeb
Sadly Over-hyped
Stevecorp
Don't listen to the negative reviews
francescaxen
This is the best comedy for me.The film "The Hundred foot journey" is a very interesting and moving film.The actors are good and sometimes funny. I like this film because it's a nice story with some actors and wonderful places. I love this film! If you like moving films,watch "The Hundred Foot Journey".
rainydaywoman-95930
This is NOT a foodie movie. It is dumbed down Hollywood crap. It is full of dull clichés. It had so much potential, and wasted all of it trying to appeal to all and sundry. A genuine movie would have had French people speaking French, Indian speaking Indian, with subtitles and only English when they speak to each other. The setting and the light is beautiful, the rest is completely forgettable.
ponderingpig
I don't know why Netflix predicted I would give this movie 4 stars. I need a film with a good story, and this story was by-the-numbers predictable. I could have explained what would happen in every next scene before I watched it. I did like the highly saturated, Technicolor-like photography and, of course, Helen Mirren. Om Puri, whom I've seen before in a couple of films, (Ghandi, Charlie Wilson's War) was also top-notch as as Papa. Charlotte Le Bon has a French name but an American accent. It didn't work in a film where the rest of the cast speaks with French or Indian accents. She didn't have much to do anyway.I know the world likes this film, but I have to give it two stars -- it's hokum and Steven Spielberg usually provides great hokum. This one, no.
Sushan Konar
One of the very public obsession of our times is cooking. From multiple versions of the high-profile 'masterchef' to dubious cookery shows on local cable channels - we seem to have developed an incredible appetite for the process of food preparation, ascribing hitherto unheard of celebrity status to chefs. The effect of this craze has been rather pleasurable on cinema ('Ratatoulle' is an absolute favorite). 'The Hundred-Foot Journey' takes advantage of this culinary fashion but brings so much more to the table. It is the story of an Indian family immigrating to a completely unknown part of the world in search of a new life and new beginning. There have been many such families who built their lives up from scratch, depending simply on a set of special skills. This particular movie simply uses the art of cooking as its medium of storytelling.Helen Mirren and Om Puri, renowned stalwarts of Holly-/Bollywood, are such pleasures to watch as they bring out the old-world essence of France and India. But it is heart-warming to see that the new generation embraces the different as well as acknowledges the roots at the same time. Above all its a beautiful movie with a high 'feel-good' (in a positive sense) quotient, with an endless rerun value at the end of a busy day or on a rainy afternoon.
