Joy (2015)

Rated PG-13 for brief strong language

 

Runtime: 2 hours and 4 minutes

 

Genre: Biography, Comedy and Drama

 

Director: David O. Russell

 

Writer: David O. Russell and Annie Mumolo

 

Actors: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramírez, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen and Isabella Rossellini

 

Budget: $60,000,000

 

Box Office: $101,134,059

 

Feedback: This was not a very interesting autobiography film. Everything about it is bland, dull, annoying and pure nonsense with repetitive cliches that don't add up. There isn't anything new because of these jokes that were not impressive.

The editing is all over the place and that is what makes the pacing very awkward. Going from one place after another, yet scenes that are so slow and makes it so boring to watch.

The sound effects were not that bad and the music does is decent. The camera movements are steady and careful. However, it's best to have a lot more emotions for Joy's daughter, Christine, because she staring at it deadly and that is uncomfortable.

I found some of the characters adequate including Joy, Neil and Christine. The family is too much and not really much motivation for everybody. Joy does have some decent motivation that wants to run a business and can't pay bills or give money. But that is almost resolved halfway through the end and it pretend that didn't happened.

Overall Verdict:

Story 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (4)

Character 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (4)

Dialogue/Diction 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (4)

Pacing/Timing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (1)

Background/Sets 0 1 2 3 4 5 (2)

Background Music/Audio 0 1 2 3 4 5 (2)

Camera/Editing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (1.5)

18.5/50 3.7/10