Jennifer Lopez’s $20M movie This Is Me… Now is panned by critics

Critics have blasted Jennifer Lopez‘s new movie This In Me… Now: A Love Story as a ‘self-financed and resolutely, painfully autobiographical’ self-importance mission. 

The singer, 54, shelled out a staggering $20million ($16million) to fund the movie which was launched on Amazon Prime Video on Friday. 

The film is a part of a three-way mission about her well-known seek for love and the way she finally discovered it along with her husband Ben Affleck, 51. 

Jennifer may also launch an album This Is Me … Now, which is a follow-up to her 2003 album This Is Me … Then which was impressed by and devoted to Ben. 

There can be documentary chronicling the making of the movie and file, The Greatest Love Story Never Told.

The pair ended their engagement a 12 months after the file’s launch, however they obtained again collectively nearly twenty years later and married in 2022.

And whereas Jennifer gained recognition for her position within the 2019 movie Hustlers, which she additionally produced, critics have been much less beneficial about her newest mission by which she stars and sings songs from her new album. 

The actress performs Atia Boggs with the script written by her husband Ben and Dave Meyers (who additionally directed it). Ben will play Rex Stone. 

Ratings have been scored simply two out of 5 stars by the The Standard, The Guardian and The Independent with many tearing into the ‘actually chaotic’ plot, whereas others slammed the star for spending a lot on what they thought was basically ‘an arrogance mission’. 

 El Hunt for The Standard wrote: ‘Before diving into the pulsing metallic coronary heart of J-Lo’s new fantastically-styled love story This Is Me… Now I ought to most likely problem a fast disclaimer: regardless that that is among the many most unhinged items of movie conceivable, I utterly perceive what on earth possessed her to make it.

‘To be sincere, if I occurred to have a spare $20 million kicking about, the temptation to make an extremely further, metaphor-riddled quasi-musical about my trials and tribulations of the guts can be irresistible.

‘The drawback is that it wouldn’t be a really wise solution to spend it. While correct, full-blown heartbreak hurts in a approach that makes you are feeling like you’re formally the one dwelling particular person in historical past to ever really feel this rotten – ever! – most of us have been there, finished that, and obtained the ill-advised break-up haircut to indicate for it.’

The Guardian’s Benjamin Lee stated whereas she is a ‘pleasure to look at’ the movie feels rushed with the assorted themes within the movie inflicting it to really feel disordered. 

He wrote: ‘This Is Me … Now: A Love Story is a number of issues. It’s half visible album, half “warts-and-all” autobiography, half animated Puerto Rican delusion, half sci-fi epic, half celeb satire and half self-help train. It’s inarguably too many elements to make one thing that feels entire, a chaotic and rushed journey by means of the thoughts of a megastar who prefers to maintain her actual self within the shade. 

‘It’s not likely a lot of something ultimately, and feels most like a stitched collectively assortment of pre-filmed awards present bits, working greatest as but extra proof of Lopez’s appreciable display screen magnetism.

‘She’s a pleasure to look at, a professional at elevating one thing that needs to be beneath her, even when it has come from her personal hand. If that is Lopez as she is now, prepared to take a sure type of threat, then let’s hope she’s prepared to take extra.’ 

Giving three out of 5 stars Empire described it as a ‘fairly audacious hour-and-a-bit.’

‘Much of the movie may have you scratching your head in bafflement,’ wrote critic John Nugent. 

‘Self-financed and resolutely, painfully autobiographical, This Is Me… Now: A Love Story has been accused of being an arrogance mission for Lopez — an accusation which feels meaningless. 

‘Of course it’s! You would hardly catch her performing some form of humility mission. This is a garish, steadily insane, diamond-encrusted fantasy journey into the thoughts of a famous person, and we needs to be grateful to have even restricted entry.’

The Telegraph gave it essentially the most beneficial evaluate however nonetheless stated it had a ‘lack of function or depth’. 

‘Jennifer Lopez is reported to have spent $20 million (roughly £16 million) of her personal cash on this prolonged idea video for her album of the identical identify. It exhibits for 2 causes. 

‘First, the viewer is dazzled by the type of excessive gloss that solely massive quantities of money should buy, presumably with the intention of blinding them to the mission’s lack of function or depth.

‘Second, if another person have been at hand J-Lo $20 million to make a movie, by which she portrays herself as a Disney princess kind searching for love in all of the fallacious locations, they might certainly say: spend it properly. What’s most enjoyable about it, is that behind the lunacy, a lot of it really works.’ 

The movie options an all-star solid similar to Jane Fonda, Sofia Vergara, Neil deGrasse Tyson together with supernatural components that embrace a ‘Zodiac love council’ who scrutinise her romantic weaknesses.

The wild mission raised the eyebrows of her interior circle, who suggested her in opposition to capturing the movie, suggesting it might be a foul thought – however JLo went forward and made it anyway.

It additionally made her longtime producing accomplice Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas ‘uncomfortable.’

During a late night time telephone name made by Lopez, JLo knowledgeable Elaine that she would contribute $20 million of her personal cash to fund the movie.

‘She’s saying, “I think I’m going to finance this myself.” I used to be like, ‘Wait, what?’ I don’t even know what it’s. What are you doing?’ I used to be frightened. ‘Why are you sharing your story? It’s too private. Stop it.’ It made me uncomfortable for her.”‘

Amazon ultimately bought the film for an undisclosed figure after the movie was done.