One review on 19 Aug 2023

Ireland 2022

Running time: 90 mins

Joyride

Director : Emer Reynolds 

Setting: West Ireland
synopsis extract: At charity fundriser in memory of his dead mother boy finds dad stealing the money raised to pay his debts and grabs it back. ...


Cast:

  • Olivia Coleman  Joy (pun in title intended?)


Aspect Ratio: 2.39 (Bollywood)

Colour: Colour

Sound: Stereo


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First Seen: Sat 19th Aug 2023
Catalogued: 21st Aug 2023

Synopsis

At charity fundriser in memory of his dead mother boy finds dad stealing the money raised to pay his debts and grabs it back. Runs away and steals a taxi then discovers baby and woman in back.

Woman (O.Coleman) is on way to give newborn baby to her sister as she doesn't want it. Boy tries to stop her. All ends happily apart from not finding out whathappened to the dad.

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by rogerco on Sat 19th Aug 2023 DVD proj @ home (Subtitled)

No joy to be found on this dismal ride

Full review

One star for being Irish and another for being mildly amusing at times - but it doesn't really deserve 2 stars.

Incoherent storyline, cartoonish characters, poorly directed, it is almost complete rubbish. 

Sound so poor we had to turn on the hard-of-hearing subtitles to catch what they were saying - not that they were saying anything very interesting. The oirishness was dialled up to 11 and frankly irritating, Photography competent though.

The director should go back to documentaries, and the writer should try a different line of work. You shouldn't waste your time watching it, its not even bad enough towe worth seeing it to laugh at.