The main problem with Tyler Perry's new Amazon Prime Video is similar to some of his other movies. Trying to be different and trying too hard to fool his audience with some off-the-wall crazy ending. The other unique issue about Tyler Perry's movies is the extreme hostility of many of the critics who hate just about all of his films. Perhaps one of the reasons for this is Perry's insistence about adding his name to the front of the movie title as with the new movie "Duplicity". One bad sign of a newly released movie is that the final Rotten Tomatoes ratings are delayed, to prevent some people from rejecting this film because of the bad critical grades. Here are some of the reviews so far on Rotten Tomatoes:
Joseph Robinson: Tyler Perry bolsters his filmography with yet another barrage of dumb characters doing nonsensical things while drowning in an inane narrative that takes entirely too long to arrive at its ridiculous conclusion.
Brian Orndorf: Perry gets close to ickiness by trivializing police shootings to fuel a moronic thriller, messing with real world agony to generate another forgettable stinker.
Unfortunately for Perry, these reviews are typical of many of his productions, going on for many years. The reason why screenwriting is so difficult is that creating a dramatic conclusion that fools the audience, must also include plausibility and believability. One scene at the end of Duplicity is where a small unathletic woman frees herself from chain shackles at the bottom of the lake setting the stage for one of the surprise scenes at the end. There is no way this scene could happen in real life and should have not been included in this film.
Duplicity stars several mostly unknown actors Kat Graham as Marley, Meagan Tandy as Fela, Tyler Lepley as Tyler Lepley as Tony, and RonReaco Lee as Kevin - in a story that involves corrupt police officers a prosecutor and a shooting of a black man by a white police officer. Some of the twists and turns in this story, work, but most do not. However, the acting overall is good, which is why it is a shame that the story and especially the ending does not work.
The ratings on Rotten Tomatoes for this film will be extremely low, around the 10% level, with the IMDB rating a very low 4.5%. My rating is only 25% for some of the acting.
Due to the large number of panned Tyler Perry movies, perhaps its time to leave the screenwriting of these movies to someone else, leaving him more time to concentrate on all the other aspects of the films he produces.
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