Shotgun Wedding (2022)

Shotgun Wedding (2022)

 

5/10

Starring

Jennifer Lopez

Josh Duhamel

Jennifer Coolidge

 

Directed by Jason Moore

 

I keep trying my best to maintain some suspense by avoiding previews or reading about a movie before seeing it. Because if I did, I may never have watched this movie.

This movie is one of those romcoms that people craving such a genre will enjoy. Also, if you're a JLo fan, here's a movie for you. But if you're like me, wanting to watch something new and exciting, then this movie is an easy pass. Unlike other cringy content on streaming platforms, this one had its moments. I didn’t mind some of the comedy, but the action was just too much to make sense. At some point, the whole thing reached a stage of boredom. I felt the movie was overreaching, trying hard to be something it’s not.

The movie is not what you'd expect for a destination wedding, especially when both the bride and groom have doubts and personal reasons for wanting the wedding to fail or succeed.

Among the list of guests are some known actors and some you wouldn’t mind never knowing their names. The couple, Darcy and Tom (Lopez and Duhamel), invited their family and close friends to their wedding. Everything looked off from the start, and it took a more awkward turn when Darcy’s ex showed up, invited by her father. That stirred things up and finally toppled an already shaky relationship.

The next day, when the wedding was supposed to take place, Darcy and Tom were fighting elsewhere, planning to call their wedding off as they were finally being honest with one another. Meanwhile, the waiting guests got a surprise when the entire procession was held up by pirates. The pirates wanted Darcy’s father to give them $45 million, or they’d hurt everyone.

The couple, still in their own world and fighting, eventually realized they weren’t safe. Tom calmed Darcy down, and from there, the movie took a turn. Together, the couple transformed into a clumsy version of John McClane and went after the people who crashed their wedding.

It’s one of those movies where the couple bonds while fighting bad guys, and every ounce of possible luck is on their side.

For me, this movie is just one of those things out there to fill up the Amazon Prime catalogue, so it won’t just be an empty folder. It stands as one of those movies that, if you miss it, you haven’t missed much. It’s not memorable, and I can’t imagine myself sitting through it again.