Good Deeds 2012

Critics score:
31 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Whose life, Wesley asks in the movie's narration, is he living? Judging from all the sterile office and apartment space and his mile-long face, I'd say Bruce Willis's in "The Sixth Sense.'' Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: A ridiculously redemptive finale negates almost all of the preceding dramatic tension and resurrects a cloying Richard Marx chestnut to boot. Read more

Sam Adams, AV Club: By Perry's standards, it's a high-toned production, which means it doesn't look as if were shot during downtime on a soap-opera set, but it's still as blurry as a fifth-generation copy. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: There aren't a lot of laughs in "Good Deeds," and it could have used more of them. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Good Deeds, with its Frank Capra-gone-Good Will Hunting title, is lucky to have Thandie Newton, easily the most gifted actress ever to have starred in a Tyler Perry movie. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: Where's Madea when you need her? Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Every Perry movie has its highs and lows. This time, the highs are a little higher, and the lows not quite so low. Read more

David DeWitt, New York Times: Good Deeds honors goodness, which isn't at all a bad thing, and it's not without moments of genuine feeling. But by the film's end, after watching a seemingly infinite number of dour close-ups of sober self-evaluation, I felt bludgeoned. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Good Deeds is more proof that Perry is a crude dramatist. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Far more interesting in the context of his filmography than it is to actually watch. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: A melodramatic slog riddled with laughable dialogue that wouldn't hold a made-for-TV-movie audience past the first commercial break. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: An otherwise unremarkable pic that takes what feels like a very long time to unwind a drearily predictable storyline. Read more