Sorry, Katie Holmes: movie-goers would rather see NYC being destroyed than check out your shit-tastic new movie, “Mad Money.” Theaters sold out of tickets for “Cloverfield,” which took in an amazing $41 million at the box office over the weekend. Meanwhile, Katie’s “Mad Money” ended up with a paltry $7.7 million.
Perhaps even worse, critics tore apart Katie’s performance in the comedy.
“And the cinematic comeback of the year award goes to…somebody other than Katie Holmes,” says a New York Post critic, who calls her new heist comedy Mad Money, co-starring Queen Latifah and Diane Keaton, “the most cringe-making return since Love Boat: The Next Wave.
“Holmes, with Alice Cooper hair and crazy Jim Carrey eyes, looks terrible and acts worse, unless this movie is unintentionally a lobotomy documentary,” the reviewer writes. “Whatever could have happened to her in the last couple of years to zap the talent out of her like this?”
The New York Times says Holmes is “the movie’s weakest link.”
Variety adds that throughout the film “Holmes is awkwardly upsetting the balance” between Latifah and Keaton.
“Their heist is only the pretext for jinks that range from medium high (as played out by Queen Latifah and Diane Keaton) to painfully low (as perpetrated by Katie Holmes, who pops her eyes, scrunches her nose and shakes her booty in lieu of acting),” writes the Wall Street Journal.
Well, Katie, at least you get to wake up every morning to Tom Cruise’s crooked smile. You’ve got that going for yourself, right?
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January 21st, 2008 at 1:43 pm
“Whatever could have happened to her in the last couple of years to zap the talent out of her like this?”
Must have been no room left for her talent once Tom ruthlessly forced his ethics into her.
January 21st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Yeah, I’m pretty sure EVERYONE knows what’s happened to her and her “talent” over the last couple of years. I’m not going to name any names but it starts with Tom and ends with Cruise.
January 21st, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Just because you marry Tom Cruise it doesn’t make you an A list actress, she was only in Dawson’s Creek for christsake.
I’m pretty sure selling your soul to the L Ron Hubbard is not as lucrative as selling it to the devil.