John Gibson

An entire film spent with a moron in a car, on the phone, talking to others about why his life is unravelling. Movies are meant to show, not tell. This movie shows nothing except a single B grade actor who literally tells us everything and shows us nothing. I got 10 minutes in, suspected the entire film was this idiot in a car, fast forwarded to the end, & yep, the writer, director & producers are complete imbeciles, who turned a plot barely worthy of a dramatised podcast into a feature length movie. The worst film I’ve seen in living memory.

This is the worst movie ever. Jennifer Lopez is the world’s biggest Karen, apparently a world leading expert, who spends her whole time arguing with the manager in the form of her AI exoskeleton. Lopez has the acting range of a trailer park mother, and can’t pull off the military professional role she pretends to play. The plot is a pantomime, aimed at 10 year olds, and can’t sustain any interest. The characters are never developed so you never care. The dialogue is ridiculous, patronising and idiotic. The people responsible for this film should leave the industry, heaven forbid they make another turkey like this one.

There is too much exposition in this film, not enough character development & too little actual conflict between the protagonists to maintain the story we’re being told & the performances the players enact. The reality of the story was that the female character decided her husband was not enough for her and not what she wanted, yet she failed to take responsibility for her contribution to the circumstances of the marriage. On the contrary, she wants to punish him for his inadequacies in her eyes without forewarning him of the true extent of her feelings along the way, which is in her. What is on him is his infidelity, which is cause enough alone for her to leave. It’s only later we find out she discovered his infidelity by hacking his email which is no less an act of betrayal. Couldn’t she have acted like an adult as asked him? In the life she finally achieves, she has taken responsibility and her new partner has taken up the “playing with the kid” role in her household, having asserted her own independent capabilities, but only by having sabotaged his. He provided her the love and protection she sought. She was unable to assert her own independence within the marriage blaming him for leading. The fact he agreed to let the son go with her to LA to pursue an acting job shows he was able to compromise once she decided to take responsibility for herself. For his part, he was unable to distinguish between his dislike of her and the things she did that he could not abide, and the disfunctional reasons he had difficulties in relationships. This was touched on but never explored. The failures here are in the screenplay, the direction (telling not showing), the acting (mainly the child who didn’t have any chemistry with the parents & the caricatured lawyers) and the score was very lacking in conveying the tone of emotions (what the hell was that karaoke scene?).

Essentially a below average movie about a disgruntled ex-employee, who’s got a beef about their manager at head office. It’s Bond in name and Aston Martin only.

Justin Theroux is so repulsive, I spent most of my time rooting for the cartels to slowly torture him like he deserves, for his primary role in the production and acting of this pile of steaming turd. An absolutely dreadful waste of time. I just wished Jennifer Aniston could have sparred us all the time a cut Theroux’s balls off when she had the chance.