Netflix viewers brand Kelly Rowland’s Mea Culpa ‘one of the worst movies ever made’

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Mea Culpa, the newest movie from US comedy magnate Tyler Perry has obtained a lashing from viewers.

The movie, a authorized thriller, follows a legal protection lawyer (Kelly Rowland) who agrees to symbolize an artist (Trevante Rhodes) accused of murdering his girlfriend.

Perry wrote, directed and produced the movie, which began streaming on Netflix earlier this week. Alongside Rowland and Rhodes, Mea Culpa additionally stars Nick Sagar, Sean Sagar, RonReaco Lee, Shannon Thornton and Kerry O’Malley.

Reviews have been damning, with Mea Culpa incomes a low “Rotten” rating of simply 17 per cent on the evaluation aggregator web site Rotten Tomatoes at the time of writing, indicating that lower than one fifth of the critics who watched it gave it a optimistic evaluation.

In a two-star evaluation for The Guardian, critic Benjamin Lee wrote: “As one might have guessed from the plot description, it’s hopelessly overstacked, Perry’s poor actors stumbling over absurdly soapy dialogue, needlessly busying something that required a lot more focus to work.

“While it might start out as an erotic thriller, it slows down to a damp relationship drama before meandering its way to a climax hinged on head-scratching twists that make little to zero sense.”

Reactions on social media have been no extra optimistic, with many viewers describing the movie as the worst that Perry had executed.

Perry’s earlier movies embrace Diary of a Mad Black Woman and the Madea franchise, through which a cross-dressing Perry performs an aged lady.

“Mea Culpa (2024)… from start to finish, this is quite simply the worst Tyler Perry film to date,” one person wrote on X/Twitter. “I’d go as far to say it’s in all probability one of the worst movies i’ve ever had the displeasure to take a seat by way of. Not one shred of emotion, not one tear or snigger. Nothing for 120 minutes.”

“Mea Culpa was one of the worst movies made this 21st century,” one other commented, whereas a 3rd famous that the movie “may be the worst movie I’ve ever seen in my entire life”.

“Tyler Perry’s Mea Culpa is one of the worst movies I have seen,” another person remarked. “This movie terrible. Tubi originals are better. If you are thinking about watching this movie, keep it moving to another one. Tyler Perry has all the resources to his disposal and puts together trash.”

The movie is offered to stream now on Netflix.