A film that brought me no Joy

Rating: 1/10 (23 January 2016)

Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and In particular Robert De Niro are all great actors in their own right. But it's becoming over familiar to see them cast together. They all featured in Silver Lining's Playbook and American Hustle.... Cooper and De Niro also stared together in Limitless.
The film wasn't terrible, but I guess that's barely high praise. All the characters lack personality and depth which is an incredible achievement when you consider the film is biographical.
Director Dabid O' Russell who formally released American Hustle and Silver Lining's play book seems to have a real struggle translating depth in character on to the big screen. It was no surprise to me that this film was made by the same director that made American Hustle, the lack of characterisation is astounding.
There were good parts. but they were few and far between and frankly not worth the boredom in between. overall it was a flacid film and as hard as I try It's difficult to find any real positives. But If you put a gun to my head and forced me to give some positives this would be my half hearted response....
1. Jennifer Lawrence's performance is pretty good 2. If familiar is what you like from a film you'll feel comfortable from the first minute with such a famous cast 3. I must admit Cooper,De Niro and Lawrence have great chemistry on screen, despite feeding off the scraps from the writers