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‘Mea Culpa’ Review: Tyler Perry’s 1980s-Style Erotic Thriller Serves Up Guilty Pleasures to His Fans
Kelly Rowland and Trevante Rhodes star as a lawyer and her client who cross the professional line of their relationship in Tyler Perry's 'Mea Culpa.'
The plot skews close to “Jagged Edge” with a lawyer falling for her client, a man accused of murdering his partner, while referencing another famous ’80s staple, “Fatal Attraction,” via a love nest accessed only by freight elevator. The lawyer in this scenario is Mea Harper ( Kelly Rowland), and her possibly guilty client is artist Zyair Malloy ( Trevante Rhodes), who’s accused of murdering his girlfriend. To make matters worse, he was fired from his job as an anesthesiologist because he was high and drunk while working — or as Mea puts it, “got addicted to his own shit.” Rowland tries to infuse all the conviction she can muster into that line, but the scene immediately goes from serious to hilarious.
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