Film Review – Tyler Perry’s Mea Culpa (2024)

Writer/director Tyler Perry does the one thing, and it’s made him a fortune. His particular love of melodrama has inspired everything he does, even when he made an effort to stretch as a storyteller with 2022’s “A Jazzman’s Blues.” The picture began with some promise, but ended up with the same messiness as all of the helmer’s projects. Perry sustains his fondness for unwieldly performances and poor plotting with “Mea Culpa,” which is the director’s attempt to make an erotic thriller from the 1980s, pitting a lawyer against pure temptation with an attractive client who may be a violent killer of women. “Mea Culpa” is ridiculous, but that’s the point of it, with Perry making the same film once again, giving viewers a look at irrational characters and tepid performances, while his writing feels like a first draft that was hastily brought to the screen, lacking basic logic, chilling turns, and a decent ending. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com