Good Deeds (2012)

I love this movie so much

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

I am astonished that this film has an overall score of 5.2, compared to many of the movies on IMDb rated higher.This is the first "Tyler Perry" movie I've experienced, and was impressed.The pacing, script, sub-plots, and overall plot were well crafted for a movie in this genre. Perhaps most impressive though was the acting: both lead actors were compelling, especially the female who had the slightly tougher role to pull off. The supporting actors were impressive as well. This is a heartfelt film and character study. Highly recommended.

I look at it like this ... for a Tyler Perry movie this was a comeback. Okay some scenes were a little 'awkward' and slow, but I was impressed with this film. You can see he is trying to reset the tone of his movie making and get back to the basics of telling the story. He decided to take the lead part in this film and I think that it was a bold and precise move on Tyler's part. He had to let his audience know that he is here to stay. He is bringing his core essence of film-making that drew people to him in the first place. He is a fantastic black man who tries to cut out 'the crap' of films and just wants to display real life. He has fumbled around casting and made some 'just for giggles' films but he knows how to remind us all of just how simple we all are and how we are all connected in this game of life. If one thing we should learn from him is his insatiable need to put us all in the shoes of another person. Let's be a little more compassionate for a man who isn't afraid to pick himself up, dust himself off and keep trying ... just my little thought ;-)

I have now seen some Tyler Perry movies that weren't good (like Madea's Big Happy Family) and some that were (his adaptation of For Colored Girls... was the best so far). This one was better than expected since he doesn't play that stereotypical mammy-type character that I just mentioned nor does he put any obvious comedy scenes that makes one groan like in that first movie I just wrote about. In fact, the only character I thought was truly one-dimensional was that of his no-good-brother played by Brian White who has no business being part of their father's company but because he's family...Anyway, Perry plays perhaps the most caring of businessmen one would expect to be depicted in modern cinema as he discovers a female janitor played by Thandie Newton who's on welfare because of some personal troubles. Oh, and Perry's engaged to Gabrielle Union and has a mother played by Phylicia Rashad who's a little uptight though she also knows where she's been. In summation, Good Deeds was a nice surprise for me concerning Mr. Perry's output and on that note, I recommend it.

No, this movie is not as bad as some people are trying to make you believe but it most certainly is not a great movie either.It is a problem that the movie just isn't a very original or engaging one. Nothing in this movie happens as a real surprise and it progresses basically just as you would predict. This also causes the movie feel overlong, which also makes this movie a bit of a bore at times, especially when it just keeps dragging on, with some of its plot lines.It's a drama, really written as a drama, which means that the emotions and dramatic events often feel forced and far from likely. You could call the movie a bit of a melodrama, especially during all of the scenes with the young kind (who can't act by the way) and when there is constantly overly dramatic music playing in the background, which totally took me out of the movie, more than a couple of times.But what perhaps is more annoying is that I just don't know what story this movie is trying to tell and what for a kind of message it is trying to send out. It's OK to cheat on your fiancée? Really, this is the only thing that kept going through my head all of the time. Perhaps it would had been more or less OK if the fiancée was a person who just didn't really seemed to suit him, or who was mean, holding him back from going forward in his life, or cheating on him, all the time. But none of this was the case. They seemed to have a good thing going, until Thandie Newton steps into the picture.Stuff like this also doesn't make the main characters very likable or engaging ones. You also just don't ever feel their emotions or understand their needs. No matter how hard the actors try to be taken serious, the movie and the character just never work out as such. It doesn't help that the movie has some absolutely horrendous and simplistic dialog in it at times.But still, I really didn't hated watching this movie. It's still well made (aside from its editing at times), despite probably not having the biggest of budgets. There just still isn't enough in this movie for me to love it but also still not enough to totally hate on it.5/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/