Monday, June 25, 2012

"I Will Meet His Soul At The Gates of Hell!"

In case you forgot, the reason we were all supposed to be tolerating the existance of Tyler Perry's appallingly-awful cinematic fusions of Bible-Thumping moralizing, soap opera histrionics and Minstrel Show "comedy" was that he was at least giving boxoffice exposure to criminally-underutilized black actors who might be able to use his bafflingly-popular films as a springboard to bigger A-list roles.

Well, the good news is, someone has finally jumped from the Perryverse into a high-profile lead role in a major studio tentpole/franchise-starter. The bad news? That someone... is Tyler Perry; who stepped in to replace a departing Idris Elba in the Rob Cohen directed "Alex Cross," intended to relaunch a new series of films based on the James Patterson detective novels that previously inspired "Kiss The Girls" and "Along Came a Spider."

The film now has a trailer; and if you've just been dying to watch Madea's male-half strap on guns and "badass-up" to do hilariously unconvincing battle with Matthew Fox as what appears to be an MMA-fighting ex-military hitman called "The Butcher"... you're in luck:

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