Friday, February 28, 2020

Romancefest 2020: What Men Want


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Written by Tina Gordon, Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck. Story by Tina Goron and Jas Waters. Directed by Adam Shankman. Starring Taraji P. Henson, Aldis Hodge, Josh Brener, Erykah Badu, Richard Roundtree and Tracy Morgan. USA, 2019

A sports agent gets the power to read men’s minds when she’s clocked on the head at a bachelorette party. Soon she’s excelling in both her career and relationships, if she doesn’t get in her own way.

This is another one where the premise is better than the execution – it’s a nice gimmick, but it never goes all the way for broke. There’s one scene that goes insane at a wedding, but it could have gotten there without the mind-reading gimmick. Taraji P. Henson is great as the lead and I feel like a broken record this Romancefest because this is where I say she’s better than the material and also that she should do more comedies.

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