JLo's movies and music have always been a little bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. I find the key is never to go in expecting too much and most of the time the strategy works. Her movies aren't anything I'll watch twice, but they are fine for the most part. I got about thirty minutes in to "This is Me Now" and had to turn it off. The music and the story were cringy. The music had catchy beats, but was so uninspiring and forgettable. The story was awful. I try not to be an ageist; JLo looks great for her age, but I don't get the need to act 25. Her love interests and friends all look late 20's, early 30's and it's just so eye roll inducing because it comes across as a middle-aged woman trying to hold on to the remnants left of her youth when she's bringing home random young men home to the point her 25 year-old friend group attempts to provide an intervention. I just couldn't take the story seriously. However, I will say the movie (?) looked good and the production value looked high. The scenes are beautiful and the colors are vivid. You can tell a lot of money went in to the project but other than that, skip if you haven't already attempted to watch.
Review of This Is Me... Now
