Summer Davis

One of the worst movies I have seen in a while. The acting between Usher and the main woman character is horrendous. The annoying voices, flat jokes, and weird conversations. The best acting performances coming from Dolly’s father and Kevin Hart. Then there’s the weird switch in the movie where it turns racial. At first it was just the fact that Usher took a bullet for Dolly’s dad and Usher was a DJ/aspiring business owner and then was asked to be Dolly’s bodyguard/driver. Then the movie switched into them in love but it being forbidden because he’s black. That theme was nowhere present at the beginning and seems to be a grab at a social issue. It lost complete sight of big themes such as Usher wanting to own his own business, music being important to the story (the movie is literally called In The Mix, AKA DJ mixing music). They attempt at this through terrible racial jokes and again, boring stereotypical acting such as the rich white boy “acting black,” racist father, etc. Not to mention, the borderline offensive and nearly nonexistent depictions of Black women and other Black individuals. This whole movie is a strange twisted way to justify interracial dating (which even at this time I don’t think many people had an issue with) and some weird grab at a love story. Embarrassing movie, so much so that I had to write a review. Please don’t waste your time.

This movie is bad. Addison Rae’s acting actually wasn’t as bad as what I thought it would be. It’s just the movie itself is bad. It felt like a TikTok series just pieced together. The WORST aspect of this movie was all of the sponsorship placements. There were so many and they were so obvious and sometimes part of the movie. It was so annoying. There’s other aspects now, but it just wasn’t good. It wasn’t the worst movie in the world, but it was NOT good.

This could’ve been a hit... It wasn’t. The overarching plot of “a legal guardian turned bad” could’ve been very interesting. However, boring climaxes, and lack of twists made this movie fall short. All of the actors in this movie are strong, so it is safe to say that it is the writer/director’s fault. Everything became predictable, from the fact that they (Fran and Marla) wouldn’t die after both being brutally attacked, to the “women power” display that was tried and failed throughout the whole movie. Waste of time, no good action, and terrible choice of film. 4/10 stars.