Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell have been putting the hours in for the the A Big Bold Beautiful Journey press tour, jetting at breakneck speed across the globe to promote their big screen romance.
But not even Margot’s jawdropping fashion parade can save her latest movie from a savaging from the critics.
The reviews are in for the A list pairing’s fantstical romcom, which follows Sarah and David who meet at a wedding before being swept up in an otherworldly adventure to relive their past milestone moments together.
With a string of two and three star reviews, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey has earned a 56 percent ‘rotten’ score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 39 ‘generally unfavorable’ rating on Metacritic.
Director Kogonada has previously won huge critical acclaim for his 2017 directorial debut Columbus as well as his previous team-up with Farrell, 2021’s After Yang.
But his plunge into big screen blockbuster has failed to match expectations, with one of the most brutal reviews declaring is ‘a big, bold, beautiful bore.’
The reviews are in for Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie’s fantstical romcom A Big Bold Beautiful Journey and they make for brutal, rather than beautiful, reading
Not even Margot’s jawdropping fashion parade during the film’s press tour can save her movie from a savaging from the critics (Colin and Margot pictured at the London premiere last week)
Indiewire‘s Ryan Lattanzio writes that the film ‘is miscalculated as a romance and a fantasy, and while I’m loath to blame a craftsman as intelligent as Kogonada entirely for the outcome, he did, after all, agree to direct this lousy script.’
Headling his review ‘Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie Can’t Save This Insufferable Romantic Fantasy,’ William Bibbiani for The Wrap argues that ‘it probably seemed like a slam dunk, hiring these two wonderful and magnetic performers in your romantic fantasy.
‘But you did have to give them something meaningful to perform. Otherwise they’re just standing on screen, trying to make the most of a trifle.’
‘Despite some pretty lens flares, cutesy needle drops (and the occasional big, bold, beautiful things that pass by the window, the only destination A Big Bold Beautiful Journey approaches in the end is an unfortunate bore,’ decided Tomris Laffly for Variety.
Nikki Baughan for Screendaily mused of the casting: ‘Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell certainly make for a handsome pairing – and undoubtedly have serious chemistry – but this high-concept feature tries so hard to charm that it becomes an exercise in wading through sickly sweet treacle.’
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is Margot’s first project since 2023’s Barbie movie – which she both starred in and produced through her LuckyChap company.
That movie topped both the domestic ($636.2million) and worldwide ($1.445billion) box office charts.
Her new movie also marks Margot’s return to work after the birth of her first child a year ago.
With a string of two and three star reviws, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey has earned a 56 percent ‘rotten’ score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 39 ‘generally unfavorable’ rating on Metacritic
Director Kogonada has previously won acclaim but his plunge into big screen blockbuster has failed to match up, with one of the most brutal reviews declaring it ‘a big, bold, beautiful bore’
‘The script was exquisite and felt very original, magical and romantic, and I wanted to do a love story,’ Margot said this week when asked about the film, before adding cheekily that ‘I would obviously love to do a love story with Colin Farrell’.
Colin has returned the sentiment, gushing that working with Margot ‘was a dream’ from ‘start to finish.’
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’s release pinpoints another busy period for Margot who will be back on the promo trail early next year for Emerald Fennell adaptation of Wuthering Heights, which hits cinemas in February.
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is released on September 19.
