This is not a great movie, but it isn't a bad one, either.
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08/01/03
Gigli (2003)
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Reviews Counted:162
Fresh:10
Rotten:152
Average Rating:2.7/10
Consensus: Bizarre and clumsily plotted, Gigli is a mess. As for its stars, Affleck and Lopez lack chemistry.
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: In Gigli, Martin Brest’s (Scent of a Woman, Midnight Run) unconventional romantic comedy, Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck), a low-level hood is given a high-level assignment to kidnap Brian (Justin... [More]
Starring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bartha, Lainie Kazan
Director: Martin Brest
Reviews for Gigli
A mess of a movie that film-goers will stumble through as surely as they'll stumble over the ill-conceived title.
08/01/03
The movie is pretty much as bad as you've heard, a tangle of badness so thick it's hard to hack your way through and find the good idea that made writer/director Martin Brest think this was a story worth telling.
08/01/03
An inexplicable non-comedy whose chief virtue is its lack of screwball histrionics.
08/01/03
It's a catastrophic miscalculation of tone, a comatose comedy about mental illness, contract killers and corpse desecration.
08/01/03
As with Madonna's Swept Away you're left baffled by how the thing was ever made.
08/01/03
Such an utter wreck of a movie you expect to see it lying on its side somewhere in rural Pennsylvania, with a small gang of engineers circling and a wisp of smoke rising from the caboose.
08/01/03
An inept attempt to do Elmore Leonard by Martin Brest, a filmmaker whose coarse sensibility makes him catastrophically unqualified to the task.
08/01/03
Lopez and Affleck should fire their agents. Or take a long, hard look at themselves in the mirror.
08/01/03
If you’re going to skip one film this year – make it “Gigli.”
08/01/03
It's too long and far too contrived for such slight material, but it's far more entertaining than a long list of recent films.
08/01/03
A hoot. A fluffy hoot, but a hoot.
08/01/03
Rarely has a movie that doesn't star Madonna achieved such a skin-crawling mixture of deluded preening and bungled humour.
08/01/03
Its awkward Rain Man- meets-gangsters- in-love plot lurches forward with such clumsiness it's hard to believe writer/director Martin Brest avoided seeing this thing flushed direct-to-video.
08/01/03
Despite all the reshoots, rewrites, re-edits and other changes, this is one awful movie.
08/01/03
Kudos to Brest, and to Affleck and Lopez, who deliver -- although that delivery is exactly the opposite of what their fans, and their disbelievers, expect to receive.
08/01/03
An overlong, joyless, and inconsequential affair, full of dead air, and possessing only a few moments of jaw-dropping bad taste.
08/01/03
Gigli is so unrelentingly bad that people may want to see it just as a bonding experience; viewers (read: victims) will want to talk and comfort each other afterwards.
08/01/03
...a walking, talking People cover story.
08/01/03
Gigli is a traffic accident you can't keep your eyes off of. If you have a taste for morbid curiosity, go see it.
08/01/03
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