Great movie, fast and fresh, the kind of fun the movies are supposed to be. The characters are real and dynamic, the sites are beautiful, interiors and exteriors, although in industrial area, they feel warm and cozy after some time. The action never loses pace. I am trying to find now other movies from the same director and/or lead actor. It is refreshing in a way Guy Ritchie is, you wait for the next movie because you expect the same feeling.

Soul Kitchen

It's been very nice watching something less Hollywood style, and yet rooted in soul music, but not only that - the whole plot is very interesting to follow in particular when it comes to relations among the characters. Really enjoyed this movie even if it comes in German language. In in this time of recession and global crisis the movies as well develops the plot about private property which becomes very important and therefore worth protecting. At certain point I was not sure if the owner of Soul Kitchen will be able to get it back as his situation was more than difficult, but there was such a twist at the end and it all ended just fine (glad for that)..Last but not least, I would most definitely recommend this movie to everyone interested in music and arts in general.

vote for the insistence the leading actor, and he simplified the life with never look back and straight forward. First glance of the restaurant smell the heavy metal. The music is the highlight of the movie. It will be better if melt the Blue, folk and supportive to the cook. Then the polishing of the cook and Music will be multi-taste. Count of Monte Cristo is also an attractive part, for his trouble maker responsibility. I like cook, but not good at. What is the soul of my cook? Not professional but full of image. what is the soul of my life, we'll see. I like cook, but not good. Keep my passion to be a good chief of my life :)

A Fatih Akin where I find the same kind of pleasure of the human isses enveloppe pushing while staying in reality that I found in Head-on. Cook for a man, and you'll make him lose his restaurant, teach a man how to cook and he'll have his restaurant everywhere.

Yes, top marks for this astonishing German (yes!) film, that is set in the industrial suburbs of a German city, featuring the beat-up soup kitchen run by the lead in an old factory, who cooks out of packages for local rough-necks. His brother turns up, on parole from prison, and asks for a do-nothing job. That's the beginning of the riot this movie turns into, as the cafe becomes a top attraction, with hordes of dancers, a DJ and a great (very moody) cook supplying gourmet dishes. Sadly, the lead's tall, gorgeous girl-friend's work takes her to Shanghai and he attempts to follow. Meanwhile his "friend", a property developer, cheats his brother out of the restaurant he is minding. It's an action-packed story, completely devoid of violence, with some funny sex: altogether a charming picture that freshens you right up. Strongly recommended.

Soul Kitchen (2009) German comedy Slow start but at midway through, With that jazz and soul, We're whisked away by misfits, Fun, tasty, redemptive ride. Tanka, literally "short poem", is a form of poetry consisting of five lines, unrhymed, with the 5-7-5-7-7 syllable format. #Tanka #PoemReview

Awared with Special Jury Award in Venice Film Vestival "Soul Kitchen" is one of the best Faith Akin movies (2nd best after "Gegen die Wand" in my book) and an excellent mixture of comedy and drama. The German/Turkish well known director features in Soul Kitchen a story filmed in Hamburg with a strong Greek element. The film depicts excellently life in Hamburg (which is one of the most different and great German cities) in a story that unlike most of Faith Akin's films is not too sad and is in fact quite funny. Moritz Bleibtreu is as always a safe and good choice and in few words this film will probably (if you have some sense of humor) leave you with a big smile in your face. Grade: A-

It was a great film to watch. Nice and easygoing, although in the middle i really thought it goes like in "requiem for a dream" to a really bad end. But then I realized it's a comedy and comedies don't have bad ends... :) So it happened, everything turned fine, not with Nadine, not in China, not as it was planned. But with a the bone cracking Kemal and a new girlfriend suggested by the old one. Faith Akin's contemporary cast Birol Ünel was also great as the "mad" cook with principles. Every piece of puzzle came together and at the end you leave with a big smile on your face thinking it could last for another half an hour and I still would sit here and watch the movie.

Toned down a bit in the sex and drugs area this could probably make a terrific kids film. It's a very obvious, ham-fisted fairy tale, which moves at a cracking pace, and rejoices in cartoon characters, plotting and visuals. That's not to say that kids only like their entertainment ham- fisted, but Soul Kitchen is a very basic romp, in which most of the cast are way over the top, and enjoying themselves enormously - often more than the audience. One of the major problems for me is that Herr Bleibtreu simply isn't funny. And there's too much of him not being funny, and not being - even for an instant - credibly Greek. It's good to see Udo Keir in a minor role, and being commendably restrained (what else could he do - surrounded by all the scenery chewing and eye-popping from his colleagues?) Nevertheless, this is a very well- meant 5 course meal, with lashings of sauce. You may wish that some of the jokes could not have been quite so overcooked, but you'll not leave the cinema bloated.