A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is a fantasy about finding your soul mate with help from a car rental agency and a GPS voice. It stars Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell as the couple who agree to open the doors to their closed-off hearts.

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey begins with a wedding invitation. David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie) are both invited. That is where they will have their meet cute.

But before they can get there, neither of their cars are not fit to drive. They go to an emergency car rental agency. The car rental agency is in a vast warehouse. At the far end sit the female cashier (Phoebe Waller-Bridge) and the mechanic (Kevin Kline). They have exactly two cars.

The car David rents is an older Saturn with no GPS. The female cashier insists he add a GPS to the rental because you never know when your phone will crap out.

The GPS (voiced by Jodie Turner-Smith) then becomes the trip advisor to his life and love.

David and Sarah meet at the wedding, tell each other why they are forever single and will never couple up. When it’s time to leave, Sarah’s car (from you know which car rental agency) won’t start. The GPS instructs David to give her a ride.

The GPS directs them to places in the middle of nowhere. Doors await. When they pass through a door they visit a place from one of their pasts. Several of the door opening events occur. Sarah and David learn more and more about each other and are more and more attracted to each other as they pass through the doors.

Finally they kiss and agree that they might like each other but can never be a couple because they are doomed to be single. They say goodbye.

I’m sure you know how the movie turns out.

There have been many films about how magic or potions or science (Fingernails comes to mind) or algorithms (Materialists comes to mind) can find your soul mate for you. Using cars and GPS is a new twist on an old idea. The film’s chief virtue is not in a great story but in Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie, who do their best to make this one work. Kagonada directed the film.

The film is available on Netflix or can be rented from other streamers. If you’ve seen it, what did you think?