Hollywood mogul’s ‘addictive’ movie storms Amazon Prime charts – fans can’t stop watching
It's soared into the top three just days after its release.
The latest release from an influential Hollywood director has fans unable to tear their eyes away from it as it soars up the Amazon Prime Video charts – whether they like it or not.
Tyler Perry is back with the latest in his impressively regular line of film releases, Duplicity, starring The Vampire Diaries actress Kat Graham as a high-powered lawyer tasked with uncovering the truth behind a shooting.
Released on Thursday on the streaming platform, it has already leapt up to number three on the movie chart in the UK as of Monday, behind only Sir Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight and recent British rom-com Picture This with Bridgerton’s Simone Ashley.
However, fans have admitted that while Duplicity might not exactly be a cinematic masterpiece, it’s still commanded their attention all the way to the end anyway.
Graham’s Marley faces her most personal case yet in Duplicity when she looks into the slaying of her best friend Fela’s (Megan Tandy) husband by police.
With the help of her boyfriend – a former cop turned private investigator – Marley’s search for what really happened leads her down a treacherous maze of deception and betrayal, the synopsis promises.
Super-producer Tyler Perry’s latest is a police thriller involving a murder and released on Thursday (Picture: Prime)The film, written and directed as usual by movie mogul Perry, also stars Tyler Lepley and RonReaco Lee, is an original for Prime Video.
While critics haven’t been kind – dubbing Duplicity ‘inane’ and ‘moronic’ – it didn’t stop fans seeking out the movie to watch through.
Comment nowHave you seen Duplicity? What did you think?Comment Now‘This movie is so bad! It only deserves one star. It gets a bonus star since it sucked me in ‘til the end,’ shared audience member Garry A on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.
‘Way too slow!!’ wrote Cheryl V in her three-star reaction, before adding ‘I will say ending was a surprise’, revealing she watched it to the end.
Others were more positive, with Mesha tweeting: ‘The new Tyler Perry movie Duplicity 10/10! Thank me later.’
‘Duplicity is definitely some of Tyler Perry’s best work. Cast and story was phenomenal. The ending p***ed me off though,’ shared Mr Johnson.
‘Tyler Perry’s Duplicity gave me one of the most insane plot twists I have ever seen. Omg,’ added @divaUTD_
In response to Huffington Post’s review claiming Duplicity ‘makes no damn sense’, Ellie Thompson quipped on X: ‘This is Tyler Perry we’re talking about! His stories are designed for escapism and heart-tugging drama, not hard-and-fast logic. Duplicity is serving up pure chaos but in a good way!’
The film stars The Vampire Diaries’ Kat Graham (C), with fans engaged enough to watch right through to the end, even when slating it (Picture: Prime)‘The most charitable thing I’m willing to say about Tyler Perry’s Duplicity is that it probably won’t end up being the worst movie of the year,’ shared Jonathon Wilson for Ready Steady Cut, while review observed: ‘Tyler Perry’s Duplicity is better than most of his other releases but does that really mean anything?’
‘The rot at the core of this film is because Perry feigns engagement with serious themes, such as racial profiling, media manipulation, domestic violence, and policing, but uses them as if they are Play-Doh, complained Cortlyn Kelly for
Perry’s last onscreen project was historic drama The Six Triple Eight for Netflix, starring Kerry Washington, which managed a 72% score with fans and 55% with critics, while his movie prior to this, Divorce in Black, actually scored 0% with no positive critical reaction.
Audiences, however, still awarded it a 73%.
Perry, who releases multiple films a year, is one of the richest men in Hollywood (Picture: Andrew H. Walker/Rex/Shutterstock)Mea Cupla, his first of three films last year and this time another murder procedural (but erotic) starring Destiny Child’s Kelly Rowland, was rotten among both critics and fans, with 18% and 37% respectively.
Perry is best known as the creator and central performer in the Madea franchise, as well as TV series Tyler Perry’s House of Payne.
His net worth is thought to be over $1billion (£774m) and he has also appeared as an actor in the likes of Star Trek, Gone Girl and Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up for Netflix opposite Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Duplicity is streaming on Amazon Prime Video now.
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