“Joyride” Review!

Director: Emer Reynolds

Cast: Olivia Colman, Olwen Fouere, Charlie Ray Reid

Director Emer Reynolds’ “Joyride,” starring Olivia Colman, is a strange and disturbing street movie that often feels like a brutal parody of every worst “indie” movie you’ve ever seen. It stars Olivia Colman as Joy, a woman who unexpectedly gives birth to a baby but wants to hand over the newborn to a friend, not wanting to put her life on hold for a child, Which she doesn’t really want. The story, woven by director Reynolds and writer Elbe Keogan, robs it of its power and depth.

 
In a series of completely unbelievable plot developments, Joey’s cab is stolen by teenager Molly (Charlie Reid), who has slept with her child, and runs away after stealing a bunch of cash from her shift. Yes, a loan. A father’s gambler. Mully eventually realizes what he’s done, pulling the car to a scrapyard to dump it, before Joy asks to help drive it to its destination in the stolen new car, leaving him behind. The child gets the ability to keep calm.

 
Nothing comes true in these twenty minutes, a problem that the film never ends up having as it achieves all the expected beats between Joy and Molly in their various zany escapades along the beautiful Irish coast. No one ever makes any truly human decisions, so you never care what happens to them – they’re just cartoon ciphers they use to deliver some hackneyed life lessons. Even Coleman, who is on such a career hot streak, can’t breathe any real life into the story, and he may end up having the worst scene in any film this year.

 
However, Young Reed makes a grand debut, and his inherent ugliness that shines through the clichés shows that this boy racer actually has a heart of gold. It’s a shame he’s surrounded by such shit, and despite its delightfully colorful visuals and some funny grace notes about Mullally’s flawed, but utterly awful father, “Joyride” never quite pulls it off. could. After doing such a great job of making Trash the Lost Daughter a “bad mom,” it’s sad that Olivia Colman is pursuing it with a similar theme without the courage of her own beliefs.