Review of Joy (2015) by Arth J — 04 Jun 2018

Neither joyous nor intriguing enough to invest in it..

Joy.

One of the most acclaimed and artsy genre; drama, has had a wider range of features, each of them conveying a message but there never has been such an empty (it's not actually empty, but the rudimentary procedure in here undermines every aspect of it) and shallow, like this particular one. It fails on technical aspects like production and costume design, background score and editing. The writing is loosely placed on this overlong of almost two hours of journey that makes the audience sweat before reaching its destination and the real culprit in here is the premise that never had enough crisp to make it on screen in the first place. The attempt to pull off such an eerie project is appreciative and David O. Russell gives it all through his brilliant execution skills but it barely moves a muscle in the bigger picture. On being aware of the safe hands and the opportunity the actors have got, all of them are giving their best in, like Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper and Edgar Ramirez. Having said that, it doesn't mean that it doesn't have its moments, there are few amazingly shot sequences that are plausible. Joy is neither joyous nor intriguing enough to invest in it and addition to that misses a huge opportunity to create something colossal with such a huge and potential cast.