I WAS IMPRESSED BY THE WORK history she shared with me. She was a new employee at our company who was assigned to my department. At first, I did not know how to take her; she had a loud, animated way of talking that lent itself more to a personal, conversational level with friends or family, not in a business environment. Through the course of several weeks, I learned more about her than I really needed to know. In between conversations about her boyfriend, child, and various family members; she told me different stories about her accomplishments at her previous places of employment. At one place she told me there was a large account that stopped buying from them and she found herself talking to a VP, just by chance, which was charmed by her. By the time she ended the conversation, he told her he was going to authorize his buyers to give her company preferable treatment for purchases. Whether it was true or not, I did not know. I could only take her at her word. When I asked her why she left the company, she said she expected to get a bonus and more congratulations from sales and upper management. Again, I listened to what she was telling me but something about it sounded odd.      HAVING HER SEATED IN MY GROUP area, and because of her loud voice, I was privy to her conversations with our customers. In my opinion, I thought she had a rough edge with the way she spoke. For example, she did not use proper English at times and even would throw in a “mild” curse word. What really sent a red flag up for me was one conversation she had with one of our larger customers, where she threatened and hung up on them. This was a situation for our boss to manage; I wanted to stay out of it. With this incident, I began to question everything she would say to me. My way was to just nod to her while uttering noncommitted words like really, wow and oh. What confirmed my suspicions was when a bouquet of roses was delivered to her on Valentine’s Day. She told us they were from her boyfriend. We all believed it until the next day, the florist stopped by demanding cash from her because the charge card information she gave them was fraudulent. Talk about embarrassment and yet she tried to tell us her boyfriend gave her the charge card info to call the florist because his phone had died. She soon was fired from our company; there was too much drama that was always surrounded her. She believed she was a good employee, but her actions told a different story. It turns out, the main character in this comedy had a similar situation.      THOUGH REX SIMPSON, PLAYED BY EMMA Roberts (Madame Web, We’re the Millers) had always wanted to be an astronaut, her life circumstances did not give her the opportunity to reach that goal. Until her friend decided to fill out the astronaut training application with a few embellishments. With Tom Hopper (Place of Bones, The Umbrella Academy-TV) as Logan O’Leary, Poppy Liu (Hacks-TV, The Afterparty-TV) as Nadine Cai, Gabriella Union (The Inspection, Deliver Us from Eva) as Pam Proctor and Kuhoo Verma (Plan B, Murder Mystery 2) as Violet Marie Vislawski; the story for this film followed a generic template. The humor was lame and basic, while the script was predictable. I thought the cast did a decent job with what they had to work with, but there was no character development, and a majority of the movie remained on one emotional plane. Overall, I felt this was a lazy production that had potential but had too many missed opportunities. 

1 ½ stars