A waste of time

Rating: 2/10 (27 December 2015)

Excellent actors and a fine story that could have been related in 6 minutes. A proper production team would know that most of this film should have ended up on the cutting room floor. The story of Joy and her travails is inspiring but this telling of it made this movie memorable to me for 1 reason; it's the 3rd movie I ever couldn't wait to end. DeNiro is an excellent actor all-around but it's evident that his career is in its dying days; it's so below him to have taken this role. Jennifer Lawrence did a fantastic job but, I hope for the sake of her future acting career, that there would be a way for her to erase this awful experience from her resume... or, at least to (mini- spoiler) bury it for 17 years.