‘A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY’ IS A COLORFUL DELIGHT
Making its debut in 2025, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is a unique but also strange movie.
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Film Review
David (Colin Farrell) is learning to live with the curious stress and weight of his parents, though he does love them. They don’t quite understand why he’s attending a wedding by himself, but on this day, he’s in quite the rush and needs to leave for this wedding. Things get more complicated when he finds his car in a parking boot. Then the car rental place he uses is, well, odd. They ask him weird questions and despite not needing it, oddly he is compelled to tell them yes he’ll take the GPS in the 90s model car he rents.
Making it to the wedding, the strange continues when he meets Sarah (Margot Robbie). Beautiful and intriguing, she proposes to David who finds her captivating. Then, on the way home, his GPS asks him if he wants to go on a big bold beautiful journey, which he accepts and then leads him right to Sarah.
‘A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY’ IS A COLORFUL DELIGHT. Review of the 2025 dramedy with #MargotRobbie. #Movies Share on XOne of the rare new films that I actually saw the trailer for prior to seeing, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is odd but still strangely unique even in that reality. I love the colors and “fun” of the production. The movie takes a bit to “get into” just because of the whole car rental starting point, but once it settles and we get to see Sarah and David together, well, this is a surprisingly wholesome movie.
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Her first big role post Barbie, Margot Robbie is again charming, and she plays this emotional role well. Colin Farrell is also good in his role, which is one I haven’t really seen him play before. Usually I’m not a fan of stories in retrospect, and yet here I am, finding I did enjoy A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. The movie gives Robbie a more emotional arc than Farrell, which is a choice, but at the same time, his emotional arc is to be there and help Sarah, which means his is more present than past.
I think what I love most about this feature is that it’s a creative soul. Everything about it seems, looks or feels artistic. I don’t know what went into its production or if any of it uses the modern and controversial tools to make this one, but I like to think not because has a kind of old soul storytelling concept. Bottom line, I did enjoy the film. When I saw the trailer (which I like to avoid so that I go in a “blank slate”), I wasn’t sure, but the movie is a delight.
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Stream, at publication, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey with Netflix; or find it digitally to buy on places like Prime Video.
Content: far as “adult content” goes, this one is relatively wholesome and sweet. What earns this title its R-rating is the language. There are lots of F-word uses (some are just oddly placed and feel strange) which is why the rating. There are also uses of shit and other commonplace profanities. Someone does recount cheating on partners and doing so purposefully.
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Rissi, Thank you for including the profanity warning.
Sure. :)