mscocobelle As a avoid-er of most Tyler Perrys movies due to the constant and insulting black clichés, I'm reading the disparaging comments here and it appears they don't see the blatant statements that Tyler Perry was attempting to make. It's a shame that in movies everything has to be spelled out and viewers no longer want to use their imaginations. 1. The different narrator represents that although the person speaking is talking about herself, she is a completely different person after this ordeal. 3. Lance Gross was chosen as Judith's husband to indicate that her husband was VERY attractive, and most people don't usually cheat based on looks, but how that someone made them feel. How many times have we've seen men cheat with BS, when they have a beautiful wife at home??? All of the time! 4. The age & appearance differences in the end represent the emotional toll and internal stress/pain that Brice and Judith both suffered as a result of the affair, while Melinda/Karen emotionally heals and although has HIV, is in a better place with time, hence she still looks young. 5. The birthday excuse and petty nit-picking also correctly depicts how small issues are magnified, providing justification and to reduce guilt. 6. Harley's character also depicts how someone's trash (Melinda) can be someone else's treasure. Additionally, his forcefulness was regarded as abusive by Melinda which is why she lived in fear, and passionate by Judith, perhaps that same passion she felt was missing from her marriage, as we watch Judith become Melinda. 7. The use of drugs represent an addiction or "high" received from sex for Harley and the addiction of attention for Judith instead of them tackling their past deep rooted issues. 8. Her mother represents her conscience, the constant reminder of her Christian upbringing/background and acknowledging right from wrong, finally reuniting and left alone with her conscience.I will reiterate, I am definitely not a fan of Tyler Perry, however this movie is overall thought provoking and worth viewing.

jfgibson73 This movie seems to say a lot about how the director believes women should behave, and none of it is what would be considered "empowering." If you somehow didn't pick up on the subtext, you might think this was just a mediocre soap opera about a wife who was tempted into an affair by a wealthy entrepreneur. Her husband seems to bring it on himself by being such an inattentive milquetoast. Except that Tyler Perry clearly believes that a man has every right to live a life devoid of ambition or enthusiasm and still expect his wife to wait on him obediently. Most of the performances were fine, although Kim Kardashian is laughable. You get a twist ending and a bleak final shot to help everyone understand just what a hell your life will be if you choose a life of sin. What a silly little film.

MisterWhiplash Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor would barely pass the muster of a Lifetime movie of the week if it weren't for the first part of the title. Tyler Perry slaps his name on any given piece of garbage that's called a screenplay and it can get made - it helps, I suppose, that his movies are always made for peanuts, the kind of budgets that would make Woody Allen on his small-scale character pieces 'Wow, that's rough'. Perry may care and be passionate about his material (certainly he's passionate enough about Jesus and the church, not just here but in many of his films), but he has such a dearth of talent that it's nothing short of remarkable.His story here, good God, is about a 'good girl gone bad' scenario, which is framed by the sort of dramatic device which (um, spoiler sort of not really?) will involve the main character in some way, though we won't know how until the end. But here, it's about a woman who has a man, and she meets a rather "devilish" young gentleman (why do I even bother with quotes, HE'S THE DEVIL, PEOPLE!) who comes in to this firm as a new client or other. Well, who cares what he does really - matter of the situation is, he is rich, powerful, looks and acts like a playboy, and is a rotten person really.But why should the 'good girl' know about that, in such a cautionary tale? Wait, I'm sorry, 'cautionary'? That's not putting it correct - this is like a man holding up a hundred stop-lights that are flashing at a mile a second in front of your face. There are also attempts once or twice at humor - the kind of boring, awful sort of bits of comedy that are ill-timed and poorly thought out and acted. Wait, there's acting here? Some of them try, and no I don't mean to pick on Kim Kardashian, she's not even really the worst of it. What sucks is seeing someone like Smollett-Bell (at one time was the Eve in the underrated Eve's Bayou) or even Vanessa Williams not even try to rise above the dreck that is the script.Or maybe it's a combination platter of terrible. Certainly the dialog is laughably bad throughout, the kind that's usually either far far FAR too obvious, or over the top, or trying to be clever or poignant every-single-step-of-the-way, and ultimately no one is allowed to really be a person. Everyone's a sign-post, a marker, another piece of the MESSAGE (in caps) that Perry is trying to sling at the audience like a monkey throwing feces with a serious look on his face. It's hysterical filmmaking of a terrible order with its double-crosses, insane tonal shifts, and by the end it just leaves you completely drained and wondering 'what the HELL did I just watch?' In other words, The Room - Tommy Wiseau's magnum opus to himself and love and life - had more nuance than this rom-drama claptrap. It might not be so insulting as well if it didn't take things in drama that should or could or would be handled with care and vitality and depth - infidelity, sexuality, sexually transmitted disease - and bungle them, miserably.

Nat Mestevller This is probably one of the stupidest movies I have ever seen. Not only because it preaches pseudo-morals but because it makes absolutely no sense. OK, so you want to tell the world that if you don't stay with your boring husband who forgets your birthday two years in a row, you will burn in hell. Fine, if that's what you think. But do you have to throw in all the bad stuff just because? Seriously, who believes that?So we have this rich guy, who's supposed to be the next Mark Zuckerberg and who states himself that he is a workaholic. Now, imagine Zuckerberg would beat all his girlfriends, sleep around in parties and take drugs all day long: Wouldn't we all know that, because he's famous? Wouldn't we all know that ZUckerberg, Bill Gates, whoever on Forbes hits his wife? Come on! And how can it be that he is a workaholic, but then turns out he's taking drugs and partying all the time and actually never works? His ex girlfriend is super scared, we see how she walks into her apartment and takes a bat, just in case he's there, she wants to move away cause he came in where she works, she changed her name and yet, she is still living in the same city! Maker perfect sense, Tyler Perry.I don't want to bother you with more details, just don't watch this crap from someone who obviously doesn't have a very high opinion about women or sex.