I thought this was was quite a good film and was getting prepared to write a quite glowing review - and then the last ten minutes happened! Did someone else direct the end part? It was insane. Melinda stows always on the yacht unnoticed. The entire crew disappear, allowing her to sneak up on Robert with a gun. They all reappear when she shoots him, but all jump in the ocean as she waves the weapon around!. Melinda then gets pushed into the ocean, but reappears, bone dry with perfectly crimped hair - finds an axe lying around (as you do)

Meanwhile, Diana nips off in a little service vessel, and a few minutes later comes back with all the crew! I kid you not. Most shameful piece of cinematic decision making I have seen in a supposed mainstream movie in years.

In the bonus track of the DVD of "Acrimony," the performers who were interviewed described the film as being about "how a woman snaps." While there were some credible psychological moments in the development of the character of Melinda, the second half of the film lapsed into excessive violence and over-the-top psychosis exhibited by the lead character.

Sprinkled through the film are key words and their definitions, such as acrimony, sunder, bewail, deranged, and inexorable. Once again, the filmmakers were relying on pop psychological for clichés in an effort to understand Melinda's hell-bent revenge on her husband. Most of the final stretch of this movie was hard to stomach.

The more interesting part of the film was the development of man for whom Melinda feels such acrimony: the complex character of Robert. There is a pivotal moment in the film when, after a lifetime of struggle, Robert finally closes the deal on his invention of a power battery. While he had bad traits and often took Melinda for granted, he had other steadfast qualities that tended to redeem him.

The acting in the film was exemplary with two pairs of performers playing the young and older couple of Melinda and Robert. For all of the superficial psychology in the film, the best image that described Melinda came not from her psychoanalyst, but from one of her family members who knew her well. From the point of view of her sister, Melinda was like "a moth to a flame" when it came to matters of the art. But the flame was one of her own making.

"For Colored Girls" writer & director Tyler Perry has surpassed himself with "Acrimony," a taut, first-rate matrimonial melodrama about a guy and a gal who meet in college, wind up getting married, and then suffer because the guy cannot create a battery that recharges itself. The gal spends every dime of her money, her inheritance, and mortgages her mother's house on the assumption that her husband will create this fabled battery. Ultimately, all the years of false assurances takes a toll on their marriage, and the gal decides to divorce him. No sooner has their mortgage become final than he is able to sell his genius of an idea, and he is sitting pretty with millions of dollars at his fingertips. "Proud Mary" star Taraji P. Henson plays Melinda Moore who has worked herself to the bone financing her husband's dream. Now that they are apart, he achieves success that he has promised her when they were still in college. As it turns out, the only time that Robert Gayle (Lyriq Bent of "Four Brothers") cheated on her was with a coed, Diana (Crystle Stewart of "Good Deeds"),and Melinda was so furious that she smashed her car into his small trailer and tipped it over. "Acrimony" isn't your usual, run-of-the-mill, Tyler Perry comedies. Indeed, this movie is straightforward and strictly business, and Melinda suffers from Border Personality Disorder, an affliction that drives her to want to kill both Robert and Diana, despite the fact that a judge has imposed a restraining order that is supposed to keep Melinda 300 yards away from Robert and Diana. Furthermore, nobody quotes scripture in this melodrama, and Jesus is never invoked. Mind you, there is some nudity, and "Acrimony" has an R-rating, so no kids please unless you want to answer some curious but embarrassing question. Altogether, "Acrimony" ranks as Tyler Perry's best movie. No, he doesn't show up in drag as Madea. In a sense, this movie reminded me of the Michael Douglas movie "Fatal Attraction."