YMMV / This Day

• Critic-Proof: This Day's critical reception was just as poor as its predecessor's (if not worse in some cases) but it still managed to get into the Top 10 Most Watched Titles on Netflix following its release. Although some of this may have been due to audiences wanting to see if it was just as bad as the first movie.
• Ho Yay: Loads between Olga and Laura, possibly even more so than the first movie. At one point, they're walking down the beach together with their arms wrapped around each other, laughingly reminiscing about how they first met. Then Laura states it doesn't matter where they live, what they wear or what car they drive "as long we're together", to which Olga replies "forever", before they kiss on the lips and tell each other "I love you". One could be forgiven for thinking these two on are their honeymoon instead of Massimo and Laura.
• Like You Would Really Do It: Once again, virtually no one believes that Laura was actually killed at the end of the movie, seeing as there's still one more sequel to be released, the previous film did almost the same thing and she was shot in a way that she could feasibly survive.
• Lost in Medias Res: The movie begins with Laura and Massimo's wedding, with little explanation for what happened to Laura at the end of the previous movie and how she survived. All that's really mentioned is that a rival crime family caused Laura to have a car accident, resulting in her miscarrying her pregnancy, but she somehow got away otherwise unscathed and the wedding's back on like nothing happened. It's jarring to say the least.
• Narm:
  • Massimo petulantly stating that Santa Claus has forgotten him at the Christmas party and Laura assuring him that Santa is coming soon. It's supposed to be a hint of incoming sexy times, but it's pretty hard not to laugh at the supposedly tough mafia boss Massimo childishly sulking about Santa Claus not giving him presents.
  • After Laura wakes up from an Erotic Dream about Nacho, she actually lifts the bed cover as if to check he's there, even though you'd think she'd be able to tell if there was a full-grown man under the covers with her.
  • Upon learning Laura is in danger in the climax Massimo and Nacho team up to rescue her and proceed to...walk slowly to her location side by side, cool as cucumbers, as if they're in a fashion advert as opposed to rushing off to save the woman they love. It's also never explained how they found out where Laura had been taken.
• Padding: Most of the first half of the movie has no plot or even much in the way of dialogue, simply consisting of people just doing...well, rich people things in slow motion with a background track playing over it, interspersed with plot-irrelevant sex scenes.
• Salvaged Story:
  • For those that thought Massimo was an abusive nutcase in the first movie, in this film Laura quickly gets tired of dealing with his bullshit and gets an alternative love interest in Nacho; their budding relationship comes off as far more wholesome and consensual in comparison. Laura also makes a point of telling Massimo that him kidnapping her was "sick" (though she still marries him and tries to make their relationship work, insisting it's her own choice). When Laura finds out Nacho was hiding the real reason he brought her to his home, she chews him out for deceiving her and says she's sick of being with men who think they can control her. She also tells Massimo (well, his twin brother actually) that she thinks marrying him was the biggest mistake she ever made.
  • After all the backlash over the first movie and book's romanticization of kidnapping, the sequel's film adaptation makes a significant change to Laura and Nacho's relationship. In the book he kidnaps her rather like Massimo only for her to develop feelings for him, whereas here Laura leaves with him of her own free will. Nacho doesn't mention that he was ordered by his father to take Laura and simply took advantage of Laura wanting to get out of town, which Laura rightly states was deceitful of him when she finds out, but as he points out Laura chose to come stay with him and isn't treated as a prisoner (nor is Nacho happy about the situation). This makes their relationship comparatively less problematic.
• Slow-Paced Beginning: The movie is nearly two hours long, yet the actual plot doesn't start until nearly 40 minutes in; the first third mostly just consists of sex scenes, shopping montages, sex scenes, rich people hanging around doing leisure activities, and more sex scenes. Things get much crazier after Laura appears to catch Massimo cheating on her with his Psycho Ex-Girlfriend and runs off with her gardener, and it's revealed Massimo's evil twin brother has teamed up with the psycho ex to get revenge on him.
• So Bad, It's Good: The first third is largely seen as dull and repetitive (unless you're here solely for fanservice), but the second half of the movie and especially the final third are more enjoyable to some viewers purely because it goes straight into trashy telenovela / soap opera levels of wackiness with rival gangsters fighting over one woman, infidelity, love triangles, vengeful exes, kidnapping, betrayal, a shoot-out, and a plot twist involving an evil twin. It helps that This Day tones down the more problematic plot points from the first film (while still not fixing the other issues with the writing), so the viewer can just embrace the melodramatic insanity.
• Strangled by the Red String: Olga and Domenico's romance isn't as bad as Laura and Massimo's romance in the first movie given they're at least shown to be in a happy and consensual relationship, but they've still apparently only known each other a few months when they get engaged and the movie skips over the early development of their relationship. Olga even lampshades that they haven't been together long, though she points out that Laura isn't in a position to judge her over it.
• WTH, Costuming Department?: For some reason, Laura gets married with her hair still dyed blonde; this was likely to maintain continuity with the previous film but at this point her dark roots are really starting to show again, with no effort to cover them up. It's even weirder considering that immediately after the wedding Laura goes back to her original hair color, which not only did most viewers think suited her better but also raises the question of why they didn't go with that in the first place.

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