Joy

This is what business is like. Not a time-hopping, broadly speaking, but serving up the initial hell of the business world live with the fabulous Jennifer Lawrence. Scene by scene, shot by shot, all the emotions are spot on and it has incredible energy. For those starting out on a similarly harrowing journey with their idea, it's doubly so. What is incomprehensible then is the initial bitterly Woody Allen-llike build-up, full of odd individuals and strange directorial devices – you have to wait about 30 minutes. But it gets better and clearer towards the end, as does the main character's life journey. Jennifer steals some scenes downright for herself – she should have got the Oscar rather than Brie Larson, but she was in a less commercial flick. (16/05/2016)

During the movie I realized we had the same mop at home. After I finished watching it, we went to visit our friends where I found out they have exactly the same mop. I have never really noticed that before. So I thank this movie that it told me a story of a thing where I would otherwise hardly realize how it came into being, and yet its author had so much trouble with it that many other people would not recover from that shit. However, Joy managed and that is why this movie, which was really sleep-inducing in the beginning, was created. When Joy was so deep in the shit that she started to sell herself in teleshopping (best scene of the whole movie, by the way), the whole movie got quite interesting. It’s a pity Jennifer Lawrence acted in the way she did, even though I normally quite like her. And I don’t even know why. Her acting is really emotionless and pretty arrogant. And it does not even have to be true. Throughout the whole movie I somehow tolerated her as Joy, but she completely knocked me down with the finale. It’s a pity. Biopics really need the compassion of the audience. And after the narration of the story, I missed that a bit. (03/01/2016)

David O. Russell directs unique and quirky films, and in most of them, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper play. For me, American Hustle clearly leads, Joy didn't convince me that much. The film felt too American to me, you could almost feel it in everything. Jennifer is undoubtedly an excellent actress, there's no point in arguing about that, however, I don't think she should receive nominations and awards for every performance. Her performance in Joy is decent, but not stunning. Again, compared to American Hustle, she clearly shone there. All in all, Joy is an average film that I won't even remember in a week. (15/02/2017)

A film about how to invent, make, and sell a mop. Admittedly, I didn't expect much, and good thing I didn’t. The plot was oddly unbalanced. The first half almost put me to sleep, and I even considered watching something else. But I hung in there, and boy was it worth it! In the second half, the pace got incredibly fast, and I was on the edge of my seat as the main character was deciding whether to wear pants or a skirt for the TV promotion of her product, and waiting to see if the sales take off or crash. Not even such a stacked cast could pull this one off. At least not for me. (20/06/2016)

As I keep saying, Jennifer is worth only big lead roles and I don't even know why I postponed Joy for so long, because it looked very good to me and it was one of those screenings that went completely smoothly. Jennifer is very convincing in this character of hers, she simply excels at playing "ordinary" characters naturally, and thanks to her, I was looking forward to every minute. In addition, the story is quite interesting, entertaining, but also touching, so you will definitely get the whole range of feelings you expect from a drama. I also further convince myself that Édgar Ramirez is actually a very good actor. And even though Joy is not any groundbreaking biographical drama, of which there are plenty here and not everyone will appreciate it as much as I do, for me it was a very pleasant experience. (07/05/2018)