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Love Jones (1997)
Rate:
2
Viewed:
6/24
6/24:
There were a lot of cheesy movies released in 1997, and Love Jones is among them.
The sex-obsessed screenplay is awful. So are the characters. Larenz Tate and Nia Long have virtually zero chemistry. The story
seems to have been done hundreds of times before, going back to The Way We Were with
Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand. That being said, Love Jones was over after the first breakup.
I checked whether or not writer-director Theodore Witcher had done more films. It turns out to be one more after this, signaling
the end of his Hollywood career. The poems by the lead characters? Gee, they're so bad that I had to laugh at every line. Even one
threw her book in the trash can.
Larenz Tate looks uncool when he smokes. Then, Nia Long undermines herself when she decides to adopt his habit. There are a lot of
cringeworthy scenes, but the worst is the final one when Larenz Tate went outside in the pouring rain for Nia Long instead of
meeting her inside the club. Their characters will break up anyway.
All in all, I hope never to see anything like Love Jones again.