If you’re curious about how Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck came to be, all you need to do is watch Gigli. If you look back at Bennifer’s relationship timeline, working on this rom-com crime film was actually where the sparks first flew for them. While Gigli may have done wonders for the recently-married couple, its director Martin Brest looks back on the critically-panned film 20 years later with a cringe and offers his brutally blunt thoughts about the film now.
Gigli is about a Los Angeles mobster who is ordered to kidnap the brother of a powerful federal prosecutor whose boss sends in a gorgeous female gangster to make sure everything goes according to plan. As you can imagine, the two begin to fall for each other. Given Gigli was far from successful, its director Martin Brest told Variety that this particular film from his filmography is one he would prefer to block from his mind. He said:
