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After flirting auspiciously at a wedding, David (Farrell) and Sarah (Robbie), meet at a motorway restaurant before driving off together guided by David\u2019s chatty GPS (fellow Yang veteran Jodie Turner-Smith). They stop at a series of doors in the countryside which teleport them to places and moments that have helped define their lives. When they arrive at David\u2019s teenage high-school performance of musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, the memory of a girl who broke his heart causes an on-stage outpouring of angst (and some serious jazz hands). They visit the hospital where Sarah\u2019s mother died of cancer, though at the time it really happened she was 19 and selfishly absent, having an affair with her college professor. David also has his share of unlikeable qualities, especially when depicted breaking up with his former fianc\u00e9e. Such relationship inadequacies help explain why both are perpetually single \u2013 even if such a fine-looking pair being alone is less credulous than the duo using magic doors to time-travel into the bodies of their younger selves.<\/p>\n
Tonally and formally, it doesn\u2019t gel. The playfulness of, say, Big Fish<\/a> is combined awkwardly with the bracing emotional honesty of something like Manchester By The Sea<\/a>. That it\u2019s wrapped up in a plot similar to Scrooged<\/a> but occasionally as minimally staged as Dogville<\/a> makes it all the more puzzling. Kevin Kline and Phoebe Waller-Bridge\u2019s parts as rental care hire staff (the latter with a bizarre German accent) seem left over from another film, too. Robbie and Farrell are engaging but otherwise, it\u2019s a bit too confused to recommend.<\/p>\n Though occasionally inventive and affecting, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is a tonal mess. Romantic and other emotional struggles depicted may ring true, but that and strong lead performances can\u2019t save the uneven whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After attractive singletons Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) meet at a wedding, they find themselves bound…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-141688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}