Reviews

Mixed feelings-it's not as terrible as some made it out to be, but it definitely falls short. The writing is the biggest issue. It feels like it's leading you in one direction, then abruptly shifts without enough coherence. Tyler Perry might benefit from collaborating on the writing front.

If you're looking for a well-crafted film, check out "The Marriage Pass" on Tubi. It's miles ahead in terms of storytelling.

What didn't I like? Let's see...

1. The mother faked her cancer to gain sympathy voters PRIOR to her son running for mayor.

2. Mea has been paying all of the bills. In that stack of bills, she mentions paying the mother's medical bills. But if the mother is faking her cancer treatments then who has Mea been paying for? Clearly, some Chemo company is sending her a bill and she's paying it.

3a. Charlise had an affair with the painter, Zyair. How could she not tell Mea when this happened? Or when she got caught by her husband?

3b. If Charlise is Mea's best friend, how did she let this lie go on for so long?

4. While Reneé may have confirmed the way Zyair seduces his women, she didn't confirm he was a killer. So her LONG DRAWN OUT scene wasn't necessary.

5. How did Jimmy, the private investigator get the email about the mother-in-law lying about having cancer?

6. I get that Zyair didn't do it. But Mea or Jimmy should have been able to get video evidence from the area that would proved Zyair didn't do it.

7. "Mea and Zyair sleep together after she is mistakenly led to believe by Jimmy that Kal is seeing another woman, when he was actually visiting Azalia at a hotel room where she is recovering from chemotherapy."

So if the mother is faking her cancer, then who was in the hotel room?

8. "Mea is a defense lawyer who Zyair approaches to take on his case. Not respecting boundaries, he barges in to her law offices without an appointment to convince her. Zyair insists that Ray hates him, but claims he doesn't know why. Mea promises to look over his case and get back to him."

So, Zyair never figured out that he was sleeping with the defense lawyer's wife?

I ran to IMDB to give a glowing review because I really appreciated the movie not glorifying violence and putting Black people in good positions like tech but then it switched up and for no real reason.

There were so many ways to end that story and I would love to talk to Nina Stakz to understand why the movie took the third Act down this path.

I felt the ending was rushed. Did they run out of hard drive space?

It started when Ashley took the gun out of her purse from no where to defend her friend. Ashley is from Paris and no longer lives in the US. She is visiting her friend and leaving back to Paris. Why would she have a gun in her purse?

Sloppy. Sloppy. Sloppy.

No.

Everything was okay about this movie.

I did feel the chemistry between the character's played by Shi Smith and Jalen Moffitt. I didn't buy into Smith calling for Moffitt. She seemed out of his league.

The set design and editing were good. The dialogue was good. I think what was refreshing was to see an actual love story take place without drugs involved.

Now the ending...

It was okay but I didn't feel the need to go that route. Shi Smith killing everyone at the end was interesting but a bit of a stretch. A more realistic ending and I would have given this movie a 9.

If Jaron Lockridge is reading this, it would have been interesting to see Latrice Dominique's character get rid of Smith and Moffitt somehow.

There was one thing that Marvel got wrong that is UNFORGIVABLE.

The Skrulls never had a problem with Fury UNTIL Fury left AFTER the Snap. This means, The Skrulls would not have replaced Rhodey in MCU Phases 1, 2 or 3 UNLESS Gravik was moving on his own.

The show could have centered around the Skrulls voting out Talos and showing the rise of Gravik.

For a spy story it was poor. The Rhodey reveal was obvious. The biggest shock was that Fury married a Skrull which was probably one of the few plot lines that worked.

Overall, it was poor writing and poor direction from a director who was not familiar with the expectations of the MCU or it's fan.

Kevin, please don't make this cannon.

Some elements of the movie are good but overall the ending has much to be desired. I will probably not watch this again.

I was shocked Disney allowed two of it's biggest stars to appear in this film.

This movie desired to be deep like Get Out but it made it too complicated. Concepts of unhealthy ingredients in the Black community have already been raised, so this is nothing new.

They never explain how this agency made money or received its funding. Even Star Wars explained the cost of cloning and how they were able to pull that off.

Also, the audio wasn't good. Especially in the beginning with the boy talking. I had to put on closed captions.

There are some good scenes but as a whole the movie IMO isn't great. That's 2 hours of my life I can't get back.