18 years pass, and in the film's events see Robert's hopes dashed, as Prescott Industries sent him a warning to cease his persistent attempts to contact them, leading to Robert working with his in-laws at their (mostly reluctant) request. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. If only he had Fuller’s talent.“The murder of RFK left a void. After an hour of waiting, she decides to leave but she suddenly hears moaning and see a woman's hand on the RV window. When Melinda comes home from the hospital to convalesce Robert calls out to her from outside and her sisters are livid. A running total/dwindling balance of the proceeds Melinda receives after her mother's death is portrayed as the couple gets in over their heads in debt, which fractures their marriage over time. Taraji P. Henson does her specialty — a woman scorned — but is it the heroine, or Tyler Perry's movie, that has borderline personality disorder?What we hear on the soundtrack (and a lot of this movie — too much of it — is Taraji P. Henson telling us things on the soundtrack) is a narrative of absolute betrayal: the con man named Robert who seduced Melinda with his lies and his soft-spoken manner, and who took all her money, and kept lying and stealing and betraying. He has made a ludicrously scattershot drama in which overwrought feminine rage, diary-of-a-mad-woman craziness, and inept filmmaking are all but inseparable.What makes it genuinely befuddling is that for a while, at least, it seems as if Melinda is telling the straight-up truth. The film stars Taraji P. Henson, Lyriq Bent and Crystle Stewart, and follows a loyal wife who decides to take revenge on her ex-husband. So Melinda goes over to his RV to see what he is doing. Taraji P. Henson stars as Melinda, a scorned woman who suffers one transgression after another in “Tyler Perry’s Acrimony.” We’re here to see the great Taraji P. Henson out for revenge and to cheer her comeuppance (or boo it, as my audience did). As the film goes on, Melinda is revealed to be a deeply unreliable narrator. She meets Robert in college, and they quickly fall in love and marry; Melinda uses money from her mother's life insurance to finance his dream project, a self-charging battery. Robert talks Melinda into mortgaging their house so he can build a prototype of a revolutionary battery he has been designing since prison, which he hopes to sell to Prescott, a Prescott reconsiders and offers Robert a multimillion-dollar deal while allowing him to keep the After showing her sisters the money Robert has given her and berating them for their influence, Melinda visits Robert in his new penthouse apartment and attempts to seduce him and rekindle their relationship, but Diana comes in and introduces herself as Robert's fiancé. His scripts are lazily written morality plays that abruptly shift tone from comedy to tragedy. When he picks up, she asked why she hasn't heard from him, and he says he is busy doing something and then hangs up. Later on, you'd hate Melinda's sisters. Making matters worse, the film divides itself into five uneven chapters, each headed by a word - Acrimony, Sunder, Bewail, Deranged, and Inexorable (so a noun, two verbs, and two adjectives) - that is presented in a very cheap-looking dramatic font and then defined in terms of its synonyms. He manipulated her AGAIN!
Melinda moved on with Devon, a former flame from years ago, but was dissatisfied with his lovemaking. Before this, Robert had met up with Diana for the first time since their tryst, as she is now working at Prescott, and this led to Diana watching Robert's old video pitches for the battery and becoming impressed with his work.
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Melinda and Robert reconcile and marry, despite the objections of her sisters, June and Brenda. Her anger is so legendary that at several points in Unfortunately, until the competently staged big action climax on a boat, About that comeuppance: The last scene of this movie is so blatantly symbolic that only Samuel Fuller would have been ballsy enough to do something this obvious to get his moral’s point across. It received generally negative reviews from critics and has grossed $46 million worldwide. Melinda and Robert later went to the latter's RV, where the pair embraced and began their romantic relationship, while one of his Nina Simone records was playing. With every hoarse breath, she tells us: But everything that happens in “Acrimony” seems off-kilter, because the story the movie presents doesn’t track with the lurid nightmare of gaslighting that Melinda is telling us.