My take won't be as hot...
And maybe it's because, for me, Duplicity & Mea Culpa were so much worse than this, like laughably bad compared to this, lol but;
The Good
Taraji. Over-acted in some instances but overall nailed the mental breakdown/dissociative fugue like state she was in. What she was able to give was definitely more than what TP deserves.
The camaraderie & support that black women showed each in the movie. S. Shepherd didn't do too bad in the bank mgr role.
Teyana was okay once removed from the hard nosed detective (that just came off like a pissed off bih from Brooklyn) act, and forced to reign it in a bit to do the negotiating. Like someone else said tho, the pantsuit, makeup and wig did her absolutely no favors.....during Pride month at that
The twist was cool too. Usually his twist just make u wanna throw the entire movie away but this didn't do that imo.
What would a Tyler Perry movie be without the bad
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Everybody else? The acting ranged from mid to straight up struggle bus with some moments (and set pieces) that felt like they came straight up outta a Community College play production.
As always, it's constantly characters in extreme, over exaggerated environments, over-stylized depictions, to the point where it just becomes a parody at times. Dialogue can seem like it was written by AI occasionally.
Of course the inability or stubbornness to right a nuanced black man. Yes, let's have Teyana's partner have to apologize to her cuz he didn't see her plight as a black woman & what she had to go thru instead of flip it maybe & have breh be understanding as a product of single mom or something.
Smh, put this idea in the right persons hands, F. Gary Gray, Fuqua or even mf Will Packer (see his peacock show ironically starting Taraji), and this might have been the modern day John Q. But of course, TP luv his echo chamber he got going on so it is what it is.
he truly is Queen Pandering. Cornel Taylor character was so over the top it was funny. Tyler does a poor job at writing villians. Just goes to the extreme with no nuance.
