Mea Culpa can be seen as many things. It is a legal drama of sorts, but it’s an adult thriller as well. It titillates in some parts while creeping us out in others. It is damagingly dull in a few places, and in others, it surprises us. This new Tyler Perry film is definitely one of those films that could have benefited from a writers’ room, and I mean an intense few brainstorming sessions as to how to get the characters in the film to have believable motivations that seem creatively justified and not just a result of ‘oh, that’s what characters do in an adult thriller’.

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Plot Synopsis: What Happens In The Movie?

Mea Harper, an ambitious young lawyer, was having a bit of a rough patch in her marriage. Her husband Kal was a mama’s boy of the nth degree, and the marriage...