Office Romance review: Oh, great another lousy Jennifer Lopez rom-com

Running time: 94 minutes.Rated R (graphic nudity, sexual material, language throughout).

On Netflix.As Jennifer Lopez makes her entrance in Netflix’s “Office Romance,” the seventies song “I Believe In Miracles” by Hot Chocolate (“Where ya from? You sexy thing!”) plays.And, suddenly and wincingly, we’re back in 2000, when that retro tune and J.Lo were rom-com regulars.Lo, how times have changed.The “This Is Me… Now” singer is demonstrably obsessed with what she was then.Lopez has repeatedly and unsuccessfully tried over the past decade to return to the era of “Maid in Manhattan” and “Monster-In-Law” by starring in a string of mostly hopped-up duds: “Second Act,” “Marry Me,” “Shotgun Wedding” and now “Office Romance.”What could that last one possibly be about?!It’s time to give it a rest.I still love the genre.

But the key to saving romantic comedies is not by replicating 25-year-old movies that haven’t aged particularly well with the same stars. Lopez, by the way, is now far better suited to less fizzy roles, such as the strong mom in “Unstoppable.”  Even the core conflict of “Office Romance” is old-hat, “Ally McBeal” stuff — sleeping with a coworker.Lopez’s latest love-challenged lead is Jackie Cruz, the powerful CEO of an airline called AirCruz that she founded with her father, Jack.He’s played by Edward James Olmos, one of several famous stars who are totally wasted by this material.The logline calls Jackie a “workaholic,” although she just comes across as vaguely uptight to me, not unlike a certain planner of weddings.Her meetings-and-emails existence is shaken up when another job-focused person arrives in the form of Daniel (Brett Goldstein), a shy British lawyer who steps up after his AirCruz boss Peter (Bradley Whitford, yet more waste) is sidelined with an injury.Daniel firmly believes in leaving one’s personal life at the revolving door. That lasts for about 15 minutes...