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‘Tyler Perry’s Duplicity’ Review: Bizarro Police Shooting Drama Mixed Up About Its Own Motives
'Tyler Perry's Duplicity' is part melodrama, part mystery, and entirely confused in its approach.
At the movie’s center are two Black women, successful lawyer Marley Wells (Kat Graham) and TV news anchor Fela Blackburn (Meagan Tandy), who become bound by the police slaying of the former’s brother and latter’s boyfriend, Rodney (Joshua Adeyeye), an unarmed man jogging in an affluent neighborhood. The film isn’t necessarily trying to frame the event as complicated, but this undue focus means it spins its wheels in the process, en route to its mystery being unearthed not through Marley’s sleuthing, but because information tends to be dropped in people’s laps, from sources far off-screen. If there was some tongue-in-cheek, police-centric reason for this, the result falls short; the frame is usually filled with hazy digital artifacts and unnatural halos around facial details, even after optimizing one’s TV settings.
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