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Mea Culpa Review: Tyler Perry’s movie is garbage
Mea Culpa is hot garbage.
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HOLLYWOOD — Written, directed and produced by Tyler Perry, “Mea Culpa” stinks. It really, really stinks. Its malodor reeks to high heaven. Not even Kelly Rowland could extinguish this dumpster fire of a film. And, what hurts most is she’s part of the problem. Mea, played by Rowland, is a criminal defense attorney married to an unemployed simp — Kal — who, when he’s in the presence of his mom and brother, pretends to be the breadwinner. Yet — despite their struggles as a single income household — Mea hired a private investigator to follow her homebody hubby whose sedentary lifestyle entails playing video games 24/7. Talk about a waste of cash? Mea spends the majority of the film bitchin’ and complainin’ about their lack of remuneration. But she apparently has enough mazuma to put a freelance detective on the payroll. Make it make sense. Facing eviction and car repossession, Mea spurned Kal’s wishes and accepted an offer to represent Zyair (Trevante Rhodes) — a sadistic artist accused of murdering his girlfriend.
Rather than meet with Mea at her office to confabulate the case, Zyair convinced her to conclave at his creepy loft equipped with a ’70s record player and a raggedy elevator. Mea pulled out a confidential case file — which should be illegal outside the office — and began reading. But Zyair’s place is so stygian, there’s absolutely no way she could see. You get the sense the home lacks light switches. Like your typical beta male, Zyair lacks a big screen television and he’s completely disinterested in sports. Instead, the muscle-bound loverboy chose solitude in the dark while listening to Isaac Hayes’ “Walk On By” over and over again.
Who the f*ck does that?
After a few sessions, Zyair proceeded to seduce Mea, using corny pick-up lines like, “You’re attracted to me but you won’t admit it.” Blah. Blah. Blah. Mea reluctantly turned down Zyair’s advances until her private investigator — who was in Mexico — texted her a photo of Kal getting a hotel room in Chicago with another woman. Not sure how that’s physically possible. But we’re talking about a Tyler Perry movie and realism is not a part of his repertoire. Rather than rush over to see what the hell is going on, Mea achieves reprisal by f*cking the sh*t outta Zyair just seconds after she descried him having unprotected sex with a courtesan, which is ironic because in Perry’s 2013 film “Temptation,” the protagonist (Jurnee Smollett’s Judith) contracted AIDs for being equally irresponsible.
Perry must’ve forgot about that.
Matrimony be damned, Mea didn’t hesitate to give up the ass.
She obviously wanted to f*ck Zyair all along.
She simply needed an excuse.
During the aforementioned sex scenes, Perry gave a naked Zyair all the camera angles. His buttocks was all over the screen. That’s how you know Madea’s alter ego is gay as hell. A straight man would never put that sh*t in the script. Conversely, Mea’s birthday suit garnered zero airtime. We heterosexual men couldn’t see sh*t. No ass. No titties. Nothing. Nevertheless… after spending the night with Zyair, Mea found out Kal wasn’t cheating. Instead, he got the hotel room for his churlish mother, Azalia, who had cancer. But, we later learned she didn’t have cancer. It was merely a publicity stunt to help Kal’s brother — Ray, the district attorney — garner sympathy votes for his mayoral election.
Feeling mortified, Mea told Zyair she could no longer f*ck him. Then she discovered he painted portraits of every woman he copulated with, including her. She was just another feather in his cap. Ray, who’s prosecuting her case, found out Mea was having inappropriate sexual relations with her client and had her removed as defense counsel. A depressed Mea went to the Dominican Republican to clear her head and — lo and behold — while at a hotel resort, she magically stumbled across Hydie — the Mexican woman Zyair was accused of killing.
Mea tried to detain Hydie, who worked as a housekeeper.
But the missing Latina sprayed Windex in her countenance and ran away.
Lol.
Mea called Ray, told him Hydie was alive, then returned to America.
But, turns out, the deranged brother-in-law used Hydie to frame Zyair for f*cking his wife — sparking a bout of fisticuffs.
Mea — who weighs 100 pounds soaking wet — beat up Ray before killing Azalia via vehicular homicide.
Then, she caused an automobile crash that took Kal’s life.
After getting his ass whooped by a woman, Ray went to jail.
And Zyair was subsequently exonerated.
Again, “Mea Culpa” is trash.
It’s hot garbage on a 100-degree day.
Perry must’ve been high as hell when he wrote the script.
If you plan to descry the film, you better get faded too.
Blog-O-Meter Rating: 2 outta 5 popcorn bags
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Tyler is a narcissis !
I’m a Christian and wanted to give Mea Culpa a go. My jaw hit the floor. I had NO idea all that soft porn was in it. If I knew, I wouldn’t have watched it.
When the white woman got up and Kelly laid down, I was out. WTF?
Who is still watching Tyler Perry material? Seriously? C’mon guys. Really? Still? WTH…lolol
I watched it last night & had several takes on the film that in my opinion is worst than a tubi movie:
1.) The 2 main characters are terrible actors.
2.) There was basically no plot
3.) The sex scene is absolutely terrible [ who fantasizes about having sex in paint]
4.) So then after a terribly acted movie the finale is so out there that it’s laughable [ this woman who weighs 100 lbs soaking wet beats the hell out of 2 men & leaves without a scratch]
I was once a big supporter of all his movies. I can’t anymore. We need to level up. I can’t even watch television anymore, for that matter. I’m embarrassed by the way we are portrayed as black people we need to require more one way to do it is by holding our money with a tighter grip not only for the movies but in every other aspect.
I almost thought I was alone in hating this TP movie along with most of his other work. 🤦🏾♂️ Thank God I’m not!
Tyler Perry started with the Christian community backing him. Over time as his popularity has grown the Christian populace is not as supportive as in the beginning with Medea. He can no longer produce movies based on Christian ideals. He has to reach a wider audience to maintain his status.
Perry now stinks. Movie was a craptastic production that peddled worst gender and racial stereotypes and I want that two hours of my life back. Dude is worth over 800 million bucks. This is the best script he could get? Wow, a new low. Done with Madea and done with TP.
Been done with this industry puppet , Tyler is a hollywood plant, the whole agenda behind him has always been to disfigure the strong image of a black family , it’s to undermine and distract, not a fan anymore of him and oprah , period
This sounds like that other movie of his with Journae Smollet! Sorry, I know I probably spelled her name wrong, but that’s the best I can do about that.
Does anybody notice that Tyler Perry’s movies where the lead actor is female, it’s always about SEXUAL CONTROL/SEXUAL DEVIANCY???????
THAT’S REALLY DISTURBING ON SOOOO MANY LEVELS!
Comparing his earlier work, which I think was his best stuff, to what he does now, I don’t think that’s the real Tyler Perry, or he’s gone over to the dark side in every way possible!
I’m no longer impressed, nor have I been with his works for many years now!
IDK WHY PPL WHO CALL THEMSELVES “CHRISTIANS” STILL WANT TO BE PART OF THIS SATANICALLY BASED STUFF, THEN ACT GENUINELY SURPRISED WHEN THEY GET SA, R**ED, AND MEET THE REAL FOR REAL SATAN FACE TO FACE?
BY NOW, EVERY OUGHT TO KNOW HOW HELLYWOOD WORKS! THE ACTORS AND ACTRESSES, AND MAINTENANCE PPL OF THAT PLACE KEEP TELLING EVERYBODY WHAT THAT PLACE IS ABOUT, BUT PPL KEEP WANTING TO GET IN, AS THOUGH IT’S GOING TO BE DIFFERENT FOR THEM?
PLZ MAKE THAT MAKE SENSE TO ANYBODY!
IF YOU’RE A TRUE CHRISTIAN FOR REAL,YOU AIN’T GOT NO BUSINESS MESSING AROUND NOWHERE IN HELLYWOOD FOR NOT NOTHING AND Y’ALL OUGHT TO KNOW THAT ALREADY, EVEN IF Y’ALL DON’T
HEAR ME WELL SO Y’ALL CAN’T EVER SAY THAT YOU WEREN’T TOLD!
IF YOU MESS AROUND ANYWHERE IN SATAN’S PLACES/SPACES, YOU ARE DEFINITELY 100% GOING TO GET SCREWED AND THEN SCREWED, WHETHER YOU WANT IT OR NOT! IT IS MOST DEFINITELY GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOU IF YOU GO MESSING AROUND WITH THESE SATANIC D3M0N1C LIARS!!!!!!
AND IF YOU REALLY ARE A REAL FOR REAL ACTIVE TRUE CHRISTIAN, YOU KNOW DOGGONE WELL THAT AIN’T FOR YOU!
BUT IF YOU CHOOSE TO DO IT ANYWAY….DO YOU BOO!
THERE WILL BE DIRE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR ACTIONS, AND BECAUSE YOU HAD ALREADY BEEN WARNED, YET YOU DID IT ANYWAY, Y’ALL DO KNOW WHAT THE WORD SAYS ABOUT THAT RIGHT?
DO Y’ALL REALLY THINK Y’ALL ARE GOING TO GO PLAY IN SATAN’S PLAY PEN AND REMAIN GODLY!?
STOP IT! THAT DON’T ADD UP RIGHT NO KIND OF WAY YOU LOOK AT IT, SO DON’T EVEN TRY TO PULL THAT ONE!
God is exposing all of the hidden ABOMINATIONS of these ppl!
It’s all WICKED AH! It ALWAYS has been, and it ALWAYS will be until God shuts it all down!
God is showing all of the wicked up!
Ain’t GOD Good!!!!!? Thank you Jesus!❤
How can someone be accused of a brutal murder without a dead body? This movie makes no damn sense.
It was a waste of 2 hours of my life. After the movies below Tyler Perry fell off. His current movies aren’t as nice as these four👇
1. Tyler Perry’s Family Reunion
2. Why did I Get Married
3. Why did I Get Married Too
4. The Family that Preys
Movie was soo bad it gave me arthritis
😭 maybe it would’ve been better as a 4 episode limited series. I felt dropped in the middle of a pile of mess immediately with the couples therapy, jobless husband, disrespectful family, murder case, etc. At least A Fall from Grace set us up for the ride.
Tyler Perry movies are like the guy you think is cool and handsome but the D is not ever going to finish you off so you have to grab the vibrator. Its FINE but never completely satisfying.
Chile 😂 Tyler strikes again 🎉 the acting was horrible, script a mess and confusing and I beleive its another thing they put in our faces in Holly-hood to show what they really do behind closed doors and Kelly with the mess too 😆 the scene she watched him with the white lady then proceeded to kiss him and they jumped on his bike without him showering first 👀🤢 I had to go pray 🙏 Lord get Tyler Perry 💀
This movie was HORRIBLE!!! Dude had a sex club in his basement??? Cmon man……TOTALLY unbelievable
I tried to watch it with my mom and i was really interested in the marriage counseling/therapy intro….then it turned into the “oh she takes care of everything because her husband is the definition of a bum” then she started getting romantic with that other man? I actually threw up in my mouth at the sex club scene. Like come on.
All of Tyler Perry’s movies have the same o same o dynamic, he is not better than Lee Daniels Tyler just have the money 💰, it’s always some black woman getting cheated, beat, and she fell for the wrong guy, it’s garbage
He continues the mediocrity because we continue to support, watch, participate in his foolishness. He doesn’t even try anymore. I stopped watching once Madea goes to jail came out, I stopped the bs and never looked back (none of his shows or any movies since Teyana and “Byronnnnnnn”.
We need for Tyler Perry to put the pen 🖊️ down… Thank you!
Are Issa Rae and Spike Lee that different from Tyler Perry, though? Those two also work the same patch of ground (“blackness”) he does and in the same cloistered way. All three create these “pro-black” fantasy worlds that are basically genre, which means they have to follow the conventions or alienate the community. They struggle to be more than Negro Realism (look how Jordan Peele’s “Nope” floundered with a female lead who couldn’t stop signifying “black” long enough to anchor the beats of a horror story in normal heroine fashion). They’re really just exotic if you’re not black. I think this is what keeps black movies from establishing a higher standard for themselves. They’re envisioned and designed to put a moat around “blackness,” to keep it our thing. The only standard they have to meet is “true black” (the inverse of the paper-bag test). They always feel to me more like a food drop for people starving to see themselves from the black corner of the theater, rather than real art.
In the same way ppl were screaming for someone to take twitter away from Trump, someone needs to take movie writing away from Tyler Perry LOL. Just fund the movies dude.
tyler’s movies/plays have all been pretty simple but gave you the feel of a Sunday evening after church at big mama’s house. It gave the feel of family, struggle, love and joy. The simplicity of clean, edgy fun…..every movie, every play has gotten a little more worldly and perverted…. He has become a literally a big disappointment to the black community because we expected and deserved better.
Great review! Wonderful points. As a Christian I’ve grown so tired of filmmakers who prefer gratuitous sex scenes rather than taking the time to craft a story that alludes to intimacy, versus lazy writing that uses nakedness as shock value. I like that Tyler Perry has the legacy of an overcomer and someone who has taken great lengths to pay homage to African American actors and artist who never got their due. But none of those things give you a license to write bad stories. My prayer for Tyler Perry is that he would recognize what his gifts are and what they are NOT. He is a producer and a trail blazer. He is NOT a writer. Hire good writers Mr. Perry and use your producing skills to give them the opportunity to showcase their talents under your umbrella. ITS A WIN-WIN. All it takes is humility 🙏🏽♥️✝️
I started watching Mea Culpa and had to stop. Tyler is bowing to the mighty dollar! He recently signed a huge multi-movie four-year deal with Netflix. He will be churning movies out as fast as possible to fulfill his Netflix contract and will likely compromise even more on quality.
Tyler will continue to make these kinda movies because u all keep watching it. I simply refrain.
Remember, Tyler laid hands on TD Jakes and prayed and gave and had Jakes bent over clappin. Man of God eh. Sex crazed evil red and blue grayed aura love hate violent cross dressing man of God
It appears to me that Tyler is NOT even attempting to make a decent movie. All his movies are predictable and the same storyline it’s redundant atp. He has no talent and only mentality slow ppl are entertained by his movies, tv shows, and/ or plays.
If you don’t like Tyler Perry movies, don’t watch. It’s just that simple!!!