Just as we suspected

Who in their right mind thought Mad Money would do well??? Shame on Diane Keaton for even allowing her agent to bring this script to her attention, never mind the fact that she accepted the role and then invested months into making this horrid flick. The reviews are coming out and they ain't pretty... "Ouch" is putting it mildly. If I were Katie, I'd pray to the bust of L. Ron that another filmmaker gives me another chance after this mess.

Katie Holmes is getting harsh reactions from critics in her first return to the big screen since wedding Tom Cruise and welcoming daughter Suri.

"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. [Us Weekly]