Film Review – A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

Screenwriter Seth Reiss (“The Menu”) asks a lot of the audience with “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey.” It’s a study of fantasy, heartache, and love, using the ways of magical realism to provide an odyssey for viewers, with hopes to sweep them up in a strange adventure. Director Kogonada is also committed to the cause, striving to supply a sense of the bizarre and the painfully real, overseeing a mission of reawakening as two strangers experience a return to their heaviest days to help inspire a brighter tomorrow. “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” intends to provide a warm viewing event highlighting two characters who learn to need each other over the course of the run time. Such sensitivity is difficult to buy in the picture, which is too twee to really sink into the system, and stars Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie aren’t a particularly well-matched pair, straining for chemistry in a feature that assumes it has a great deal more appeal than it actually provides. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com