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Get carried away with Colin Farrell & Margot Robbie's A Big Bold Beautiful Journey!
What if life gave you a chance to really take a look at major events from your life, relive them even, so you could gain a better understanding of why you are the way you are and possibly make the changes you need to live the life you should be living? Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell get just that chance in the new Romantic Drama A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. In this film, we meet David and Sarah, two single people who seem content to live their lives unattached and alone. Both are heading to a mutual friend's wedding when they encounter issues with their cars, forcing them to reach out to a mysterious car rental company. Despite the bizarre first impression of this company, both separately agree to use their services and take their new rides to the same wedding where they meet for the first time. After a bit of flirty banter, their encounter comes to an end, with both of them going their separate ways and starting their journey home the next day. That is when fate, or their magical GPS devices, steps in and brings them back together for an amazing journey that will change their lives forever.
One of the things about this film that I do love is that there is a certain feel to it that reminds me on old school hollywood movies, or maybe it is just old school Hollywood musicals. Where strange things happen, and the characters just blindly accept them as normal. If you can look past the strange things just as these two characters do, it will make this movie a lot easier to take in. Fate has stepped in, and this is just your life now. Mysterious talking GPS devices, weird doors appearing out of nowhere that lead you to pivotal moments in your past, all totally normal. Once you accept that, you can really dig into this film and explore this journey with these two characters yourself. What I enjoyed about this film is that it felt like David and Sarah really had great chemistry together on screen. Yes, David is kind of a stereotypical uptight and closed-off single man who is struggling with his own demons of not having every aspect of his life work out exactly as he planned, but something about him is endearing. Sarah is the usual manic pixie dream girl of the film who lives a chaotic life of jumping from one relationship to the next, afraid of being loved too much becuase she doesn't believe she deserves it. As these two progress and we get these glimpses of their past, their actions do start to make a lot of sense and makes them way more relatable. Who among us hasn't had moments in their life they regret or a relationship that has ended that was because of something we did wrong? None of us are angel, and this film really shows a realism to each of these characters and their history that makes them very relatable. Now, with that being said, there are parts of this film that could have been served up better with a little bit of tighter editing, just so that certain moments didn't drag out longer than needed. Despite those moments, the film feels well-paced and enjoyable. This film will really take you on an interesting emotional rollercoaster. I found myself laughing a lot and even getting choked up at some of the deeper moments of the movie. I have to give a shout out to the supporting cast in this film, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Kevin Kline, who are our staff and the rental car company, and definitely steal the scenes they are apart of. Also, I have to give love to Lily Rabe, who plays Sarah's mom in the film and brings a sweetness and relatable heart to her character that contributed to my getting teary during some of her scenes.
At the end of the day, I have to recommend checking out A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. I know this will not be a hit for everyone but there is just something special about this film that I really enjoyed and think audiences may also find charming. Fans of films like LA Story will definitely dig this one and see a lot of similarities between the two (but that is a whole nothing article I could write). So if you want a romantic drama that is a little left of center, maybe you should head to the theater and find yourself on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey.