With an abysmal 6% Tomatometer on Rotten Tomatoes (and a just as bad 14% score from audiences), 2003’s Gigli just hit Tubi. The romantic comedy crime film stars Affleck along with Jennifer Lopez, Justin Bartha, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Lainie Kazan in a movie about a low-level mob enforcer, Larry Gigli (Affleck), who is tasked to kidnap the mentally challenged younger brother of a federal prosecutor. If that premise wasn’t bad enough, it somehow gets worse as it turns out that his employers don’t actually think he can do the job so they bring Ricki (Lopez) to be in charge with Gigli falling for her even though Ricki is a lesbian. Yes, you read all that right.
That bored, disinterested acting from both Affleck and Lopez also translates to the pair having almost negative chemistry in Gigli, which is wild to think about considering that they began dating during the filming of the movie. The whole movie was just a mess and is notably considered one of the worst movies ever made. It’s also a movie that, even looking back on it years later, still is considered to be pretty bad, though contemporary critics and audiences have been a little gentler on the movie. It probably helps that, in retrospect, Gigli is almost unintentionally funny rather than being deliberately funny. The comedy in Gigli comes not from what was written into the script, but from just how much of a mess the movie ends up being. It makes it worth a watch — just do it on free streaming.
