Wow, what a movie. I made an account just so I can review this one particular movie. When it started out, I was bored out of my mind, I didn't care about the characters and then something epic would happen and I would be like "oh yes! Finally, something good!" and then it would be shot down by predictable acting and I was like "...really?" However, once Janet had her pleasant outburst with her soon to be ex, I was happily engaged in the movie although still edging on falling to sleep and being half awake. I think her performance was one of the better aspects of the movie due to the fact that I could understand why her character did what she did. It bothers me though that you never understand WHY they were getting a divorce. Then at the end, it was forced in that she would go harass her husband, that was the only part where I was like "lol...wut?" Then you have the other sub plots such as the wife cheating on her husband, it was OK but it bothered me that when he wasn't with his wife, he showed no signs of being bothered at all. Life was swell. And then with the wife you didn't see her change toward her husband at all, they just assumed you were supposed to just take it as is and not ask questions. Then you had Mark(I think that was his name) who shows up randomly and acts all hunky dorey and I miss my ex wife which, once again, you don't really get a full grasp of the situation you're kinda just thrown in.
I will admit Marcus and his wife were funny and they made me feel happy although they were stereotyped, it was refreshing because I know people like that and its just hilarious.
Now...my biggest complaint that leaves this review to be a 4...the ending. I didn't care that Terry died, I figured that out but they could have tried to resolve it better and then at the hospital, Janet screams "Fix it!" and everyone is like "ok! *smooch* fixed!" it could have been so much better! Don't bring me up to the top of the mountain just to push me down with that sorry excuse of a resolution. Then...what really set me off was the cameo of The Rock or Dwayne Johnson if that's correct. Why is he in it? That was a distraction from the entire movie in general! He didn't need to have the epic camera shots, I walked out but then stopped because it was the end of the movie anyway.
Speaking of camera shots, the face shots when they were talking was a horrible way to portray the movie. It annoyed me because I kept thinking this scene could be a lot better if they just zoomed out and let us watch the characters speak. This may sound odd but I felt like I was watching a movie, not someone's life. It kept reminding me that it was a movie and if the Tyler Perry was going for a POV shot, fail.
This movie starts off boring, gets good, and then becomes just...difficult. So much potential...what happened? That's all I gotta say.
I will admit Marcus and his wife were funny and they made me feel happy although they were stereotyped, it was refreshing because I know people like that and its just hilarious.
Now...my biggest complaint that leaves this review to be a 4...the ending. I didn't care that Terry died, I figured that out but they could have tried to resolve it better and then at the hospital, Janet screams "Fix it!" and everyone is like "ok! *smooch* fixed!" it could have been so much better! Don't bring me up to the top of the mountain just to push me down with that sorry excuse of a resolution. Then...what really set me off was the cameo of The Rock or Dwayne Johnson if that's correct. Why is he in it? That was a distraction from the entire movie in general! He didn't need to have the epic camera shots, I walked out but then stopped because it was the end of the movie anyway.
Speaking of camera shots, the face shots when they were talking was a horrible way to portray the movie. It annoyed me because I kept thinking this scene could be a lot better if they just zoomed out and let us watch the characters speak. This may sound odd but I felt like I was watching a movie, not someone's life. It kept reminding me that it was a movie and if the Tyler Perry was going for a POV shot, fail.
This movie starts off boring, gets good, and then becomes just...difficult. So much potential...what happened? That's all I gotta say.