Review of Blue Bayou (2021) by Dawdlingpoet — 18 Aug 2022

This is a decent character based drama but it is somewhat predictable, knowing the general story beforehand. I did think the protagonist (Antonio LeBlanc) seemed a decent likeable guy, which certainly helps and its not hard to feel frustrated for him when he clearly comes across discrimination based on his ethnicity (the obligatory potential employer asking him where he comes from - not the area he lives in but where he originally came from etc.

). The depiction of his family life is decent but it felt a bit too much like a Hallmark movie by the end. There are numerous films that cover the same issues and its not a bad film, certainly, but it missed something - I'm not sure I could explain precisely what but its nearly quite good but just not quite.

I did think it was interesting coming across the ICE person - being British, I wasn't aware of that particular acronym and its curious that the employee appears to be a semi-decent type, perhaps but yeah.

..its not quite as good as film as it maybe could have been. The cheesiness frustrated me somehow. No, I wouldn't particularly recommend this film as such.