BLUE BAYOU MOVIE REVIEW

Writer/Director/Producer/ and star of “Blue Bayou”, Justin Chon, is clearly a force to be reckoned with. Here on his fourth feature film he’s directed and written, he plays Korean-American adopted immigrant Antonio LeBlanc, living just outside New Orleans with his very pregnant wife Kathy (Alicia Vikander) and her daughter from a previous relationship, Jesse. Antonio does his best to scrape out a living as a tattoo artist, looking for extra work everywhere, but a troubled past with a few felonies keeps him from getting hired anywhere else. When he gets on the wrong side of Kathy’s ex (a cop), he ends up arrested and then sent to an ICE detention center. Despite being adopted as a very small child in America, because of red tape errors, he finds he’s now going to be pushed towards being deported to a country he doesn’t know at all…like so, so, many others. This is a very political film that seems for awhile like it’s just a bucolic, slow burn, character drama. And there’s so much to admire here, especially in terms of Chon’s fantastic direction. And we’re totally here with the message it’s trying to send out. But. Just….but. Listen to Chris, Adrian, Brad, and Wright give you the details.

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DIRECTED BY: Justin Chon

STARRING: Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O’Brien, Linh Dan Pham, Sydney Kowalske, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Emory Cohen

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)

Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, in 1992 Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas, where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this paradise you see before you. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.

 

 

Adrian El Critico (Screener Squad)

Though born and raised in Chicago, this film critic is Mexican to the bone. Adrian has been watching movies since he was a child, many of which might not have been age appropriate. Still, he couldn’t get enough. All throughout his life, friends and family would look to him for his recommendations and reviews on whatever films had come their way. Inspired earlier in life by the likes of Ebert and Roper at The Movies and then later Spill.com, Adrian decided film criticism and analysis provided a great outlet to further his love of film. He began to craft his reviews and thoughts on film in ways he thought would be accessible to devout film hounds as well as the casual viewer. Mixing in jokes, entertaining observations and robust critical analysis, Adrian El Critico may be new to OneOfUs, but he is already making a name for himself on our site. If Horror movies are your thing, get ready to hear his voice.

 

 

Bradly Martin (Screener Squad, Eye on the Prize,