Jackie Cruz (Jennifer Lopez) is the President and CEO of Air Cruz. She’s the big boss in charge and everybody know it. Having dedicated her professional life to get to the place that she is, her romantic prospects are zero to none. Daniel Blanchflower (Brett Goldstein) is a British lawyer who spends his free time visiting his incarcerated sister Lizzy (Jodie Whittaker) while trying to get her moved back to the UK. When Daniel starts working directly with Jackie, sparks fly between them.

Goldstein, who has written for Ted Lasso and Shrinking respectively, is no stranger to the comedy genre. I was so much looking forward to his foray into romance because how could he not knock that out of the park? Ladies and gentlemen take a seat because I am sorry to say that this was just not it for me. At all. And I was so disappointed. (But I still love you Brett).

Where do I even begin? For a film titled Office Romance, I was shocked to discover that the romance didn’t even start up until the halfway point. Sure there were some small hints at the beginning, but they stalled and didn’t really go anywhere. Nothing against Lopez or Goldstein who are great actors in their own right. I simply did not feel the chemistry between them. It seemed forced where it could have actually been really sweet if only they had covered a bit more ground together.

As far as the comedy goes, I also wasn’t sold. Very few of the jokes landed. Many of them were actually downright crude and I do not mean that in a good way. They could have leaned into it by going the same route as There’s Something About Mary or Forgetting Sarah Marshall where that raunchy humor heightens the plot and doesn’t take away from it. Instead it was over the top. I keep replaying the birth scene that Betty Gilpin’s character Sydney had and cringing because of how uncomfortable it made me.

Overall, Office Romance is the worst movie I have seen this year. I know that Netflix has made some stinkers in the past and unfortunately this is one of them. I don’t even have more I can say about it because it was boring and never went anywhere. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Rating: ♥️