Reviews

Short film about a woman with Alzheimer's and the process she went through after being given the diagnosis.

Positives about this movie are definitely the fact that they showed the process backwards. It's an interesting way of looking at how the diagnosis progresses and impacts someone's life, especially over several years.

Negatives: Acting was below par. Although it was a short film and had a lower budget appearance, the actors still seemed as if they kept forgetting their lines and weren't sure what they were supposed to do with their bodies while talking. The camera angles were also odd at times. The story did move along in a way that was easy to follow, but at a slow pace.

Overall, interesting take on a topic, but better acting and a more interesting script could have made it more compelling to watch.

After watching the Season 6 finale of Rizzoli and Isles, it is no shocker to me that they only lasted one more season. In short: they tried too hard. This show started in Season 1 with good crime stories and interesting plot twists, but they had another side to the show that most crime shows avoid or skip...the family and friends. The jokes. The funny side moments and the best friend relationship. They showed cops and MEs lives outside of their job and that was what made this show. Now in Season 6, they took those things away (or showed less of them) and ending up making it just like any other cop show with way too many plot twists and unnecessary suspenseful moments. Sometimes the episode didn't even cover everything and left plot holes because they were trying to fit so much into one episode.

This season finale having the stalker/payback storyline along with Vince getting married was too much for one episode. Trying to include additional crimes and storylines in the last few episodes prior also didn't help with keeping the plot clear and made some of the stories hard to follow.

They did start off well with Alice's (stalker/payback) storyline, with Jane having to figure out clues and always having Alice one step ahead, but in this season finale, it seems like they gave all of that up and just had her come back as a killer. This idea doesn't follow through with how smart her previous tactics were and ends up ruining the suspense of what will Alice do next.

Knowing that this storyline continues into Season 7, along with (mostly likely) additional episode crimes, I can only imagine that the show will lose it's focus of what it began with. If this is how the show was meant to continue, I think it did well ending in Season 7. If only they would have stuck with how great their show was in Season 1.

Although the plot of the story becomes interesting and suspenseful throughout the episode, the way that this episode started was not the best. Olivia happens to be walking home from the grocery store and sees police lights and a crowd. She immediately uses her badge to get in on the scene and attempts to take over the situation (even though there are plenty of cops and EMS already working the scene). She claims that SVU should be called because the victim is wearing a nightgown and almost forces the cops to give her the case. After this awkward beginning, the rest of the story is interesting, but they try to force sexual statements to make it seem like it should be an SVU case. After all this, the very last scene shows that Olivia should had let the cops keep the case in the first place. Good episode but bad start.

I have gone back and forth with my feelings of Tyler Perry's movies. I enjoy them for their material and especially for their religious content. Most of his movies/plays do have a rich background that everything will work out and that God has a plan and as a Christian myself I love that this is included. I believe this movie was good. I enjoyed the characters and the situations they each had but I don't believe any of them were ever resolved. It left the viewer confused. Jill and Troy's problems were never discussed, Angela and Marcus never truly solved their trust issues and Terry and Dianne seemed to just let everything go without talking about it. Each of these situations in themselves could have been their own movie. There was so much that wasn't answered, so much that wasn't talked about. The worst was Patricia and Gavin. Both the first and second movie showed them having issues however, not only were they not resolved but they were barely shown in the first place. They were arguing and clearly in a difficult situation but it's still unknown what was wrong even after the end of the second movie. If Tyler Perry would have gone deeper into the issues of the relationships (or at least solved them in an appropriate way) I probably would have given this movie a 10. On a positive note, Tasha Smith is hilarious! She plays her character so well!