If there is one guarantee in life, it is that a newTyler Perrymovie will find its way into the daily charts of whichever streaming platform it has landed on, and it will be absolutely crucified by both critics and audiences in its reviews. So it has proven once again with the writer/director/actor’s latest offering,Duplicity.
Following such critical disasters asA Fall From GraceandA Madea Homecoming, therelentless procession of Perry-orchestrated moviesand TV shows continues withDuplicity, which has debuted at the top of Prime Video’s U.S. chart and in the number two spot on the global chart. The film’s synopsis reads:
“High-powered attorney Marley (Kat Graham) faces her most personal case yet when she is tasked with uncovering the truth behind the shooting of her best friend Fela’s (Meagan Tandy) husband (Joshua Adeyeye). With the help of her boyfriend (Tyler Lepley) – a former cop turned private investigator – Marley’s search for what really happened leads her down a treacherous maze of deception and betrayal.”
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While the new movie has not received enough reviews to generate a Rotten Tomatoes score, the fact that the film has no positive reviews at all suggests that if and when it does, it is going to be lucky to break away from a dreaded 0% Tomatometer result. As usual with most of Perry’s movies, none of the big publications put any of their reviewers through the trauma of sitting through the film. Of those who have reviewed the movie, the opinions are unanimous in describing it as another Perry classic – which isn’t a good thing.
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Could we just say no and have done with it? If there is one positive to be found, then it comes fromLeisureByte’s Archi Sengupta, who comments that it “is better than most of his other releases, but does that really mean anything?” Not exactly glowing praise, but slightly better than the review fromBlu-ray.com’s Brian Orndorf, which says:
“Perry gets close to ickiness by trivializing police shootings to fuel a moronic thriller, messing with real world agony to generate another forgettable stinker.”
However, even that is not the worst annihilation ofDuplicity, as that honor goes to Nicholas Bell ofFish Jelly Films, who destroyed Perry’s newest thriller, saying, “Despite a title featuring a potential Freudian slip, Tyler Perry’sDuplicityis yet another nonsensical, inane, instantly forgettable time suck from a filmmaker who disdains films with this latest rush job.”
It is clear thatsomeone is constantly watching Perry’s movies, as whether on Netflix or Prime Video, his work always manages to debut at the top of the charts, blasting past some of the greatest recent movies and older classics with ease. In a time when content is king, Perry has certainly found a way of churning out multiple projects a year that are so bad, and so quickly produced, that some have started to question whether the creator is simply a master of ChatGPT rather than the master of quick scripting.
Source:Flixpatrol/Rotten Tomatoes
Tyler Perry’s Duplicity
