Lopez plays Marisa Ventura, a chambermaid at a fancy New York hotel. It should have been easy to make "Maid in Manhattan" work, particularly considering that rags-to-riches Cinderella stories are so universally compelling. Everything about it, except the valiantly lifelike Lopez, feels stiff and robotic and mindlessly crowd-pleasing, as if it were a comedy made by a committee instead of a human being. There are a few casual, funny lines in Kevin Wade's script, but they're buried under too many sodden ones. You can predict almost every turn in "Maid in Manhattan," although that's not the problem with it. With "Maid in Manhattan," Wayne Wang is just the latest in a long line of contemporary filmmakers who have proved they're not up to the task.
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For all her exceptional beauty, Lopez easily comes off as a real person onscreen, mixing vulnerability and confident self-awareness in all the right proportions.īut then, the world is full of young actresses who could do good work in the right light comedy - if only there were directors capable of making a good light comedy these days. Jennifer Lopez may be the most overexposed and underused actress in Hollywood today: Overexposed because you can't pick up a gossip magazine or flip on the television without picking up some useless bit of gossip about her personal life or her wardrobe and underused because no director except Steven Soderbergh has found the right way to tap her appeal, which is certainly genuine.
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