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Tyler Perry’s Cosplay of a War Movie Hardly Does Its Subjects Justice
The Six Triple Eight ends up being more about what these women endured than about what they accomplished.
From there, we cut to Bloomfield, Pennsylvania, the year before, where Lena Derriecott King (Ebony Obsidian) is getting picked up from school by her would-be boyfriend, Abram David (Gregg Sulkin), the scion of a wealthy Jewish family. Perry, who’s made three features this year in addition to overseeing a TV empire, has become infamous for turning out streaming work on the quick and cheap at the expense of basic production values, but The Six Triple Eight is clearly meant to be a prestige vehicle, and its chintziness doesn’t feel like the result of a limited budget so much as an indication that its director isn’t really sure how to scale up. The film, which follows Lena to Women’s Army Corps training in Georgia, where she makes friends and struggles with the program’s demands, is shot with a bright flatness that emphasizes the staginess of the sets, which don’t look remotely lived in, and the dialogue, which ranges from easy regional banter to stilted exchanges in which characters opt out of using contractions.
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