Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counsellor

The creator of the Madea character has created, with Temptation, one of the worst dramas in years. He attempts to make a modern day Anna Karenina, a proposition which I have nothing against. In fact, I would be quite curious as to how that would turn out. The films' horrific screenplay adapts the play "The Marriage Counsellor", about a woman cheating on her husband and then realizing how wrong she was, which was also written by Perry. I have never seen the actual play, but have read that the film is much darker in tone. However, the film fails miserably in that respect. People laughed more during this than most comedies that come out nowadays.Scenes of revelation that are meant to be climactic turned out hilarious. Scenes that were intended to be especially emotional for the characters had the audience roaring with laughter. This is mostly the actors fault. Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Robbie Jones are particularly bad as the cheating couple, Judith and Harley. However, in the last half an hour or so, Lance Gross proves himself to be the worst of the lot, playing the cheating wife's loyal husband, who really does love her, and shows it in a puny range of emotions, either showing almost none, or overdoing it completely, throwing Harley through a glass window action movie style, screaming like Ricki Oh, to get revenge for beating his wife. Tyler Perry is awful at directing serious dramas, the acting ensemble is sure to get many a Razzie nomination, and none of the music in the movie fits the theme. The attempt at fitting in some religious themes is terribly executed. And I almost forgot! Ella Joyce has to be commended for her portrayal of Judith's religiously crazed mother, which reached all new levels of bad acting. Do not be tempted to see this travesty of a film. I give it a...

1/10