A below average generic movie

Rating: 4/10 (4 November 2016)

I missed this film when it came out but now I have had the chance to watch joy and I think this film is a pretty huge disappointment. The premise of this film sees a woman attempt to follow her dream to make her invention a success. Jennifer Lawrence plays joy in this film and she is clearly the best part of this film. She has strength to her character but also a vulnerability to her that does make her an interesting character. Robert deniro plays joy's father in this film and he does a decent job but his character is just really unlikeable in this film to an extreme degree. Bradley cooper is in this film a bit and he does a very good job showing his charisma but he just isn't in the film enough. The rest of the characters are all incredibly dull and you will not care about anybody in this film other then joy. The story is as generic as possible with there being nothing unique in this film. Also the film tries to follow so many story arcs that it gives none of them any depth at all. The script actually has some decent humour in it but the drama just falls flat when it really wants to make you care. The style of this film is also generic and doesn't do anything to make you interested in this film and actually leaves you pretty bored. Overall this film has a few decent performances but isn't worth watching.