Despite well choreographed action and a gritty performance from Jennifer Lopez, The Mother is not the Mother’s Day vehicle Netflix had hoped it would be.
Inspired by the viral New York Magazine article, Hustlers follows a crew of savvy former strip club employees who band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.
Individually, scene to scene, Second Act has its highlights. But as a whole, the film simultaneously works and doesn’t work – the epitome of a mixed bag.