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Load of rubbish!!

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Let me start by saying, the script of this movie is amazing! You actually feel like you're in the movie, giving advice to Melinda, feeling her frustration and holding her down when she goes bonkers. Taraji P. Henson deserves an award for her performance. Acrimony is a great film packed with lots of lessons. Honestly, I do not understand why great movies like this get poor ratings. Please go see the movie and give it a chance.

So asks an unseen therapist in Tyler Perry's Acrimony, as we see Melinda (Taraji P Henson), open up about her husband, her life, and her bottomless pit of rage.And as the movie progresses, we begin to understand the depth of this woman's misery, and despair.The story takes us back 20 years, to a rainy day in college when the life of a younger, more trusting Melinda collides with Slick, a.k.a Robert Gayle.Their initial encounter doesn't go well, in fact it's a preview of coming attractions.Their second encounter, however, sweeps Melinda off her feet. Very sadly, as it turns out.And when her mother dies, and Robert helps her through the emotional crisis, the audience knows she's completely lost.Robert is handsome, Robert is charming, Robert is inventing a battery called the Gayle Force Wind. He's also a seasoned con artist; Melinda doesn't stand a chance.When (against her the advice of her sisters), she tells Robert about the house, and the $350 thousand dollars she's inherited, things start to get very serious very fast.He uses words like "Forever", he refers to her as "Mrs. Gayle", he convinces the reason for his interest is not her money, it's her.Things also start to get ugly...Robert doesn't ask, he suggests. And soon his suggestions lead to her buying him a new car.After which he disappears, only to be found two days later by Melinda, in the arms of another woman.The ensuing confrontation ends in tragedy, and Melinda is left unable to have children.A large part of her life destroyed, it's hard to imagine her ever being able to justify taking Robert back.Melinda, however, finds a way, and soon she's being conned into paying for his last two years of college.He proposes.Although not with a real engagement ring.This, he promises, will come later, when he's wealthy, and can give her everything she wants.The wedding is a sad affair by anyone's standards, and soon he's living in her house, unable to get a job because of a felony he'd thought had been expunged, and using every last cent of her inheritance on one thing: His battery.His battery is his first love, his true love. His wife Melinda is just a way of obtaining it...A human ATM machine of time, money, and free room and board.And when Robert's precious invention forces her to rewire her entire house, Melinda sees the last of her inheritance evaporate.Twenty years pass with Melinda working two jobs while Robert does practically nothing. Twenty years, during which her house (her mother's house) is mortgaged.Melinda's youth is gone, and a slow building rage has replaced her vivacity, and self confidence.The money for the mortgage has, of course, all gone to the battery, as her cold, and ungrateful husband awaits a call from Prescott, a company that will help him launch it.And just when we learn there's a foreclosure on Melinda's home, fate intervenes in the form of an old mistress named Diana.Diana works at Prescott. Diana is going to be the one to eventually help him score his bif home run...And fate has another few bombs left in store, because Diana is not just AN other woman she's THE other woman:The lady Melinda caught Robert with all those years ago. The lady who's unfortunate prescence caused the tragedy which prevented Melinda from ever having children.We see the marriage go into it's death throws, and that's an overstatement since it was never really alive to begin with.A relationship which should've ended with Melinda's hysterectomy, has been sustained largely through Robert's promises, and Melinda's wishful thinking.But the final straw comes when after fire bombing her family's attempt to keep their mother's house, Robert turns down an $800 thousand dollar check from Prescott to sell his battery.With $800 thousand dollars, he could repay Melinda's inheritance, save her house, and their marriage. There's a moment in the movie when we all hold our breaths, hoping against hope that he will do this...But we know our leading man far too well by now. Robert is ambitious. He's also greedy.$800 thousand dollars is not what he has in mind.And so the marriage is dissolved, with Melinda losing the house that she grew up in, and Robert waiting for Prescott to offer more.When that happens, Robert shows up, at Melinda's office, bearing flowers, a ten million dollar check, and the keys to her mother's house.This little twist is one of the finer ones in the movie because it makes something crystal clear, something which I will explain later on.Melinda, having misinterpreted Robert's gesture as a sign of love and reconciliation, goes to his apartment to throw herself at his feet...And this is where the death blow occurs, because Robert is not alone in the apartment, he's in the company of his fiance, Diana...A woman Melinda recognizes all too clearly.And from then on, she can only watch...As Diana becomes the new Mrs. Gayle. As Diana gets the ring Melinda was promised, and (in a final, cruel irony) as Diana becomes pregnant with the baby, Melinda can never have.And as Melinda becomes increasingly violent and insane, the audience knows, she has reached a point of no return.It's isn't the yacht, or the designer wedding gown, or the trip to Paris that's pushed her over the edge.It isn't the lavish apartment.Or the in fact that she's entitled to $150 million dollars instead of only ten.It's the fact that for the past 20 years she has lived on dreams.Dreams of love. Dreams of devotion. Dreams of everlasting gratitude, and affection.Money? What is that? Her mother's house? What is that? These things pale in comparison to the adoration she so desperately craves. The promise of which has kept her alive these past two decades as everything else disintegrates.That distant promise is why she has held on year after year, waiting for Robert to materialize as a man of substance, and integrity.He never does, of course. That's the big punch line.That's what's made Melinda's life into a sick, collosal joke.There are three things that make this movie worth watching:One: Ms. Henson's performance.Her transformation from an innocent victim to a ruthless destroyer is a joy to watch, it having been executed with very few flaws, none of which are her fault. And the words/definitions used to describe that transformation, really are excellent.Two: The prescence of THE other woman, (archrival Diana). This explains Melinda's hopeless descent into psychosis. Although I don't agree with how the character of Diana was portrayed, I do agree with the character herself.Three: The twist of the 10 million dollar check. This shows more than anything else could, Melinda's lack of interest in her husband's money. It's a a surprising little twist, and one that I really didn't see coming.But there are three strikes against this movie which prevent me from giving anything higher than an 8.One: Diana is way too sympathetic when she should be a gold digging snake. In my scenario she helps Robert with Prescott, then steals him away from Melinda, knowing that by helping him, she will, eventually, marry into his money.Two: Melinda is a raving maniac toward the end, when she should be calmer, and more calculating. It's the one part of her transformation I don't agree with. Portraying her as a smart woman doing an incredibly stupid thing.Three: Robert's survival. I agree that Melinda should die. Her life is over. But why should Robert be allowed to live? He's the villain. They try to make him Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction but the strategy backfires: If he's Michael Douglas to Melinda's Glenn Close, he's not the man who's been lying, cheating and stealing year after year.I will never see Acrimony again, but it's a poignant, and powerful movie. Worth watching. Even if it's only once.

He gave her 10 million and a house, it should have been over...the rest od it was typical Tyler Perry.. #ruined

Do not waste your time. So absolutely horrible. A complete waste of whatever you paid to see this.