"Acrimony" isn't your usual, run-of-the-mill, Tyler Perry comedies. As it turns out, the only time that Robert Gayle (Lyriq Bent of "Four Brothers") cheated on her was with a coed, Diana (Crystle Stewart of "Good Deeds"), and Melinda was so furious that she smashed her car into his small trailer and tipped it over.
Now that they are apart, he achieves success that he has promised her when they were still in college.
Henson plays Melinda Moore who has worked herself to the bone financing her husband's dream. No sooner has their mortgage become final than he is able to sell his genius of an idea, and he is sitting pretty with millions of dollars at his fingertips. Ultimately, all the years of false assurances takes a toll on their marriage, and the gal decides to divorce him. The gal spends every dime of her money, her inheritance, and mortgages her mother's house on the assumption that her husband will create this fabled battery. "For Colored Girls" writer & director Tyler Perry has surpassed himself with "Acrimony," a taut, first-rate matrimonial melodrama about a guy and a gal who meet in college, wind up getting married, and then suffer because the guy cannot create a battery that recharges itself. Reviewed by zardoz-13 10 / 10 Tyler Perry's Best Movie Ever!!! From the point of view of her sister, Melinda was like "a moth to a flame" when it came to matters of the art. For all of the superficial psychology in the film, the best image that described Melinda came not from her psychoanalyst, but from one of her family members who knew her well. The acting in the film was exemplary with two pairs of performers playing the young and older couple of Melinda and Robert. While he had bad traits and often took Melinda for granted, he had other steadfast qualities that tended to redeem him. There is a pivotal moment in the film when, after a lifetime of struggle, Robert finally closes the deal on his invention of a power battery. The more interesting part of the film was the development of man for whom Melinda feels such acrimony: the complex character of Robert.
Most of the final stretch of this movie was hard to stomach. Once again, the filmmakers were relying on pop psychological for clichés in an effort to understand Melinda's hell-bent revenge on her husband. Sprinkled through the film are key words and their definitions, such as acrimony, sunder, bewail, deranged, and inexorable. In the bonus track of the DVD of "Acrimony," the performers who were interviewed described the film as being about "how a woman snaps." While there were some credible psychological moments in the development of the character of Melinda, the second half of the film lapsed into excessive violence and over-the-top psychosis exhibited by the lead character. Reviewed by lavatch 5 / 10 Like a Moth to a Flame
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