BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

user-666-622108 Rating: C-Guided by the notion that people are not offered the same opportunities in life, the film entitled Good Deeds is unfortunately supported by a predictable script and horrible acting from start to finish. Having the potential to shed light on the real-life struggle of single mothers, the love affair between the two "star crossed" lovers, Wesley Deeds and Lindsey Wakefield, adds a melodramatic, blockbuster effect to what could have been an empowering and representative movie. As a result, the movie progressed as a romantic comedy, with the more serious message of the stark and unfair differences between social classes in the peripheral. In the movie Tyler Perry plays the main character named Wesley Deeds. As the main character, Tyler Perry tarnishes the overall movie by his horrible acting and highly apparent disconnect with his character. At times, it seemed as though he was merely reading the script without any animation or emotion. To the audience, Deeds, despite his fancy cars and lavish lifestyle, leads a mundane life. However, Deeds believes he has a perfect and happy lifestyle. Therefore, although Perry plays a boring character, Perry's acting comes off as if he is trying too hard or not trying at all. Gabrielle Union plays Natalie, Deed's beautiful fiancée. Natalie's character serves no purpose other than to highlight Deed's predictable actions. For example, she knows when he comes home, what he wants to wear every day, and what he wants to eat. Then, there is Wilimena Deeds played by Phylicia Rashad. Wilimena is Wesley's overbearing mother who disapproves of Wesley's brother and eventually of Wesley's decision to become involved with Lindsey. Following a highly predictive script, Deeds does the same thing every day, notices struggling single mother named Lindsey, played by Thandie Newton, offers her some assistance, and then finally questions his career path and life actions. Not only is scrip predictable, it also plays heavily off of stereotypes for both the lower and upper classes. Tyler Perry's character, Wesley Deeds, is the wealthy executive of Deeds Corporation. In the beginning of the film there is no hesitation as Deeds promptly states how he is fifth generation Ivy League grad. Throughout the entire movie, Wesley's lavish lifestyle is heavily displayed. Going to an Ivy League school, always being serious, having the perfect trophy wife, and expensive sports car and loft, are all common stereotypes associated with the upper class men. In addition, for the added effect, Natalie's marriage to Deeds has been planned and expected of the two. In the movie, when Deeds tries to reprimand Lindsey for not properly taking care of her child, Lindsey asks Deeds if he knows how much a gallon of milk cost. This scene implies that rich people would of course not know how much a gallon of milk cost because they spend money without thinking. In addition, because Lindsey has a relationship with Deeds, it seems as if she is being used, bought out and taken advantage of. Trying to expound the message of social responsibility, Deeds does help Lindsey and her daughter find a place to stay. However, the movie is tarnished by the fact that Deeds emotionally cheats on his fiancée with Lindsey. Instead of receiving the lasting message that it is society's obligation to help people who have run across unfortunate circumstances and that in helping others, people feel better about themselves, due to Deeds and Lindsey's developing relationship, the audience takes away that you do good deeds in exchange for love or a relationship. Their relationship seems forced, and it casts the whole movie in a negative light. If the movie focused more so on the theme of how doing good makes you feel good, instead of on developing Deeds and Lindsey's relationship, the movie would have been much more powerful.

evhg802 It used to be that Tyler Perry made movies that were about the hope and help there is in God. But there was always an element in his movies that bothered me: part of the solution to becoming happy and whole always involved dumping your boyfriend/husband/girlfriend/wife and getting a new one.Now, in this movie, there is no longer any Christian pretense. All that's left is Tyler Perry's one true theme: "To be happy, you need a new love interest." At least in his previous movies, the dumped love interests were abusive in some way. But in this movie, oddly named "Good Deeds," Perry's love interest has done nothing wrong. Instead, she's a virtual angel who lets him off the hook by saying, "We're not ready to get married," all because their relationship had become predictable and boring, especially in comparison to Perry's more exciting relationship with his new love interest.So if you go to Tyler Perry movies to be inspired or uplifted, I would recommend skipping this movie, and being cautious in the future, because it seems like every movie is worse than the last.

bniler Firstly the Title of the movie is "GOOD DEEDS" Wesley Deeds inherited company from his father after his death. Wesley Deeds CEO of the company, was portrayed in the beginning of this movie to be responsible, merciful, long-suffering, honorable, tenderhearted, and respectful (mind you these good qualities were instilled in him I would guest by his father). On the other hand, his brother Walter Deeds who envied Wesley Deeds, was portrayed to be irresponsible (to the point where he could not even keep a driver license), vengeful, dishonorable, unkind, unmerciful, and he always seemed angry. So called "Good Deeds" 1)After being insulted by Lindsey at the parking garage, after she occupying a parking space reserved for Wesley. Instead of letting her car be towed away, he gave her a break.In this same seen it showed deep character contrast between Wesley Deeds and his brother Walter Deeds. In that seen Walter Deeds cursed Lindsey, call tow truck to tow her vehicle away, when she plead for her vehicle to be released, he mocked her. 2)Wesley Deeds also work late nights as CEO making sure the Company stayed sound and competitive. 3)His fiancé trusted him so much she knew if he was not with her he was at work. 4)In another part of the movie Wesley Deed witness Child Services taking Lindsay's child away because she was living in her vehicle, due to an eviction. Wesley Deeds seeing this decided to let her stay in one of the Company Corporate apartment rent free with her child. Until she's able to be financially sound.There is more so called good deeds of Wesley Deeds throughout this movie. Not only that, he is always a good example to his brother(who is considered to be irresponsible), mother, and fiancé, up to the point nearing end of the movie. This where I found this movie to be very offensive. Too summarize it all: my dad sacrificed to help me be who i am right now, who i am right now; is showing forth that sacrifice. I come to a revelation. I do not want to sacrifice like my dad did for me, but I want to do my own thing. And put all my dad's labor and sacrifice in another man's hand. What a stupid concept to even ponder. Moreover, leave my beautiful trusting fiancé for another women who has insulted me from the very start of seeing her. Wow!Tyler Perry are you kidding me. Misguided and confusing nothing glorious about Mr. Evil Deeds actions.

TamPalm I am not a Tyler Perry defender, but I have to call foul on the 3.1 rating. Those who reviewed the movie average about a 6 or 7, so I'm led to believe many who have voted on this movie did not in fact see the movie. Considering the assault Perry receives from critics--myself included at times--it would not be hard to believe some would undermine the rating system here and seek to sabotage anything with the name "Perry" in front of it. Moving on...I will go out on a limb and say this is Perry's highest quality effort to date. It's the first movie I remember seeing of his that did not run with the trite good-guy/bad-guy story line. This movie had more depth than any of his previous. There were no bad guys. Every character was troubled and coping and...human. Many I think missed the real theme of this movie. It has absolutely nothing to do with a man coming to save a woman. It is about having the courage to follow your own path. It is a universal theme, one that hits home for virtually everyone. Sure there may be better movies out there who execute this theme, but this movie does it competently in my opinion, and by Tyler Perry's standards, it is more than competent. It is dare I say, actually "good?" I liked the acting. Once I got past Thandie's always-strange accent and the little girl's initially poor acting performance, and Brian White's sometimes over-acting, the movie caught its groove and all of the actors delivered. Newton played a particularly touching role. I have to admit her ability to cry on a dime regarding the loss of her child, made me tear up a bit. To say that I was shocked to find myself actually tearing up from a Tyler Perry movie is the understatement of the day. Perry and Gabrielle Union also delivered. Both portrayed their complex characters well and competently showcased the true ambivalence that often accompanies a relationship, especially one that occurs when the couple is past their twenties and have to grapple with all the life expectations that entails. This brings me to the next highlight--the script.It seems like Perry actually took his time--or at least more time than he usually does, say on the horrible movies like "Madea Goes to Jail" or the like--on this script. There was more character development, more growth, more nuance, and unpredictability. There were plot holes, sure, but in general, you didn't feel short-changed as a viewer, like the writer was just trying to rush something through to meet a deadline so that he could ultimately get your money--ahem--"Why did I get Married 2" looking at you! Finally, I liked the pace of the movie. Some may think it was slow, I think it was mature...a mature movie about mature matters. I liked this for a change, especially in comparison to the low-IQ slapstick I had previously associated with Tyler Perry. And let me leave this little tidbit: If you, like me, happen to currently be in a similar place in life as these characters--about to make big life decisions but fear you are not making the right ones--you will doubly appreciate the meditative pace. You will appreciate the more introspective tone than is found in Perry's other movies.The movie is not perfect, but I will give it a relatively high rating simply to combat the unfairly low rating it has as of this writing. We should applaud growth when we see it. "See it" being the operative phrase. See the movie before low-rating it. Have some integrity folks.