By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
2. Gigli (1/2 star)
Year of Release: 2003
U.S. Box Office Gross: $6 million
Reported Budget: $54 million
The Reassessment: Had Halle Berry decided to get Gigli with it, we would have been spared “Bennifer.” Oh, well. Unlike “Brangelina”’s Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Gigli offers no visual evidence that Berry’s replacement Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were falling for each other while shooting this witless, humdrum and clumsily executed black comedy about two low-level assassins and their Rain Man-like kidnap victim. Whether you saw the film in 2003 or last night, you’re left without a doubt that Lopez and Affleck were not meant to be together, on-or off-screen. Lopez isn’t bad, but Affleck humiliates himself trying to channel Vin Diesel. Forget that Gigli’s rhymes with really; it’s gone down in history as code for a predestined box office failure that stars an overexposed Hollywood power couple fated to split.
Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures