Film Review – Tyler Perry’s Finding Joy

In recent years, writer/director Tyler Perry has attempted to make a World War II film, an erotic thriller, and pulled his Madea character back into circulation after officially announcing his retirement. And now he’s attempting to make a Hallmark Channel-style study of burgeoning love in “Finding Joy,” working his typical fast-and-cheap filmmaking ways on what’s meant to be a cozy study of two emotionally wounded people getting close inside a remote cabin during a Colorado blizzard. Perry isn’t one to deeply think about his scripts, and “Finding Joy” definitely has the appearance of a first draft that went right into production. The picture isn’t romantic or amusing, it’s just boring, watching Perry stick with cliché and uninspired dialogue while trying to stretch a simple concept in the most fatigued ways. Like many of his movies, it’s forgettable, but here, the feature barely shows interest in itself, dragging to its inevitable conclusion. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com