Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor tells a story of a woman who lets curiosity and a desire for lust get the better of her, and suffers lifelong consequences because of it.
A scandalous plot with much potential proved disappointing and failed to earn excitement from the audience.
Judith (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) has only ever been with one man — her husband, Brice (Lance Gross).
She is the daughter of a priest who does not believe in sex before marriage, and she is caught off guard when the hot, single billionaire, Harley (Robbie Jones), comes to her workplace. Harley is looking to invest, and takes an interest in her.
Harley’s interest quickly becomes an obsession, and this excessive male attention at work magnifies Judith’s feeling that Brice is ignoring her at home.
After getting to know each other, Harley seduces Judith into his world of sex, drugs and money.
Their affair eventually spirals out of control, and Judith realizes too late that Harley is not the man she thought he was. She does not want to spend the rest of her life paying for just one slip of judgment, by choosing lust over love.
The plot carried potential, but was ruined by below par acting and unnecessary scenes that served no other purpose but to bring big names to the screen, most notably the featuring of Vanessa Williams and Kim Kardashian. Vanessa Williams is an actress.
Having been nominated for Grammy, Emmy and Tony Awards, it is a shame that her role in this movie as Judith’s boss was poorly written and insignificant.
As for Kim Kardashian, not to shock you, but it turns out that she cannot act. I am convinced that Kris Jenner, the infamous “momager” of the Kardashian Empire, wanted this movie to serve as evidence that Keeping Up With the Kardashians is, in fact, reality TV.
She presumably used Kim’s genuine inability to act to prove that the show could not possibly be scripted.
The beginning of the movie is presented as a flashback of a marriage counselor.
The counselor is telling Judith’s cautionary tale to her patient who is having an affair, in an effort to warn her to stop.
Essentially, the moral of the story (or at least the one conveyed to the patient) is to work on any existing marriage problems rather than try to find what you are missing elsewhere by cheating.
The story of Judith terrifies the patient and she insists she will never see her new lover again and will from now on remain faithful to her husband.
This abrupt conclusion seemed extremely myopic and a much too simple generalization of all situations in which one spouse is unsatisfied by his or her marriage.
The movie actually provided some other important lessons that were unique and interesting.
However, wrapping up with a random woman who comes to her senses after an affair and heads home to her husband took away from these few positive elements of the movie.
You definitely should not waste ten dollars seeing Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor in theaters. If you are really bored one night and it happens to be on TV, give it a shot.
If nothing else, Kim Kardashian’s “acting” is guaranteed to entertain.
