Look, I grew up with Tyler Perry. Though laughing riots (especially when it involves Madea) and with decent spiritual lessons, his plays were often between the lines of so-so and bad. Same goes with his movies, and both sides have gotten worse as I got older. Divorce In The Black is yet another one of his "masterpieces" about an unhappy woman in a crappy marriage. Then all of a sudden, her husband decides to get a divorce.
One of the biggest complaints I keep hearing about this movie as well as most Tyler Perry movies is that it's the same story over and over again. Normally centering on a black woman either in an abusive relationship, struggling financially, or any other trauma Perry can think of. The problem with that is Perry's too prideful to hire writers for his productions and insists on doing the work himself, and it's painfully obvious in this movie (as well as others). Most of the time throughout the movie, the characters are just having the same conversation about how crappy Meagan Good's husband (and pretty much his entire family) is over and over again every 2 seconds. It also doesn't help that the dialogue is incredibly lame and cheesy. So many of the characters made decisions that were either over the top (watch the funeral scene), unrealistic, or just plain stupid. The main protagonist was especially guilty of this (along with a lot of cringey dialogue) as during the final resolution she had possibly the dumbest plan I've ever witnessed in a movie.
The acting was all over the place. Sometimes extremely overdramatic while other times incredibly bland. And the fight scenes as well as moments that were supposed to be intense were just awkward. Meagan Good has the same issue as Jessica Alba (which I mentioned in my review for Trigger Warning), she's a bland actress. And while the dialogue alone was bad enough, Good made it even worse with her wooden acting. She had this extremely horrible line that was supposed to make her seem like this hardcore survivor, but instead she just came of as lame and pathetic. Cory Hardrict (the husband) and Debbi Morgan (Good's mother) were probably the better actors in this movie.
Speaking of Debbi Morgan, the only good scene in this movie was this moment between Morgan and Good. That was the one time Good's acting was.......well good. The chemistry between the two was very poignant and overall it was a very sweet scene. I just wish it wasn't wasted on such a horrible movie.
This movie is so bad that it could possibly give Madame Web a run for it's money (yeah, I said it). And to Tyler Perry; instead of throwing a hissy fit towards the "high brows" for dissing your movie, why don't you just except that you suck at your job like a man. Thanks For Reading.
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