fizzles into a big pile of nothing down the stretch

Rating: 5/10 (1 July 2016)

I don't know how else to explain it.
Perhaps the problem here is the subject matter. There was another "invention film" that wasn't great called "Flash of Genius" with Greg Kinnear, and while that film also waned down the stretch, it was better than this one.
Jennifer Lawrence is about the only redeeming quality here. Everything is just so unlikable or shallow about every other character in the film.
"Joy" is overrated here at 6.7, and is probably on the way to 6.4- land before long. I'd go 52/100.
When our lead here finally get's rich, it comes off as a poorly explained and rushed conclusion. We sit for an hour-and-a-half waiting for a payoff, and what we get is a legal-boring-non-twist, and a brief explanation on what made her rich. Is that what we were meandering through all that average film for? Oh geeesh. The end is very anti-climatic. This film, along with "Race", "THe Brother's Grimsby", and "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot", had me in movie purgatory for my two days off, making me wish I had actually gone to one decent movie at the theater, and not wasted 12-15 bucks on this lot of terribly average, if not flat-out disappointing films.
The lone bright-spot was "London Has Fallen"(6.5/10), which at the very least was an unabashed, yet still frenetically-fun rehash of the original. And no I don't have to have action to enjoy a film.
There is very little "Joy" to be found watching "Joy".