“Mea Culpa” is essentially the most over-the-top, lurid and hyper-sexualized cleaning soap opera Tyler Perry has ever served up.

Certain, it’s a thriller, and by the pull-out-all-the-stops finale, it acts prefer it. However soapy, turgid trash is likely one of the man’s manufacturers — when he isn’t enjoying Madea. And this eye-roller is on-brand, first scene to final.

It’s one other story set amid African American affluence, this time in Chicago. The solid is populated by stunning individuals in stunning garments in putting, upscale settings, one other Perry trademark.

And it’s acquired laughably clear-cut villains, ludicrous conditions and a season’s value of daytime TV cleaning soap “twists” that need to be seen to be believed. However “seeing” doesn’t actually assist.

Singer/actress Kelly Rowland (“Suppose Like a Man”) stars as Mea Harper, an in-demand Chicago legal protection lawyer pursued by an artist (Trevante Rhodes of “Moonlight” and “Hen Field”) accused of killing his girlfriend and splattering her blood and cranium fragmants throughout a portray.

Zyair Malloy has a James Harden beard and a 50cent menace about him. He’s clean, a womanizer and one “smug mutha” shut your mouth.

May he be responsible? He’s too sensitive to reply robust questions, too choosy about the place he lets her intereview him, as if the court docket will let him testify from his artist’s loft and intercourse den. And he’s too intent on bedding Mea to take all of this critically.

Mea’s tempted as a result of her loser husband (Sean Sagar) has substance-abused himself out of a profession, cheated with one other girl and located a brand new habit — on-line video video games.

The ADA prosecuting the case (Nick Sagar) is husband Kal’s brother. And their tyrannical, sickly mom (Kerry O’Malley) “forbids” Mea taking the case. ADA Ray is operating for greater workplace. That’s the play. When ADA Ray joins Mother in “I forbid it” that simply seals the deal. Defiant Mea is on-board and all-in for the protection, no “culpas” about it.

Perry scripts some odd scenes during which Mea permits her trusty, all-seeing/all-knowing personal eye (RonReaco Lee) to do the name-calling and harsh questioning, and plunges Mea right into a covered-in-paint sexual dalliance after her “smug” shopper lets her watch him getting felatio from a compliant neighbor.

Fairly the activate. As I mentioned, “Lurid.” Some will take responsible pleasure out of watching that. The dears.

Perry’s made good movies, however they’ve been fairly scarce ever since his try to show that iconic stage play “For Coloured Ladies Who Have Thought-about Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf” into a success film. Every little thing he makes with out Madea in it’s an tried cleaning soap opera, with slack, uneven pacing, “you gained’t consider this” plot factors and cartoonishly-broad villains.

The title — “Mea Culpa” — is one “inform” this story wears a tad too proudly. There was a stretch in African American cinema when dangerous pun titles had been all the fashion — “Jason’s Lyric,” “Poetic Justice,” “A Lowdown Soiled Disgrace” all performed on characters’ names punned into the title. Perry, of “Home of Payne,” “Ruthless” and “A Fall from Grace,” by no means outgrew that clumsy crutch.

Ranking: R, violence, express intercourse, nudity, profanity

Forged: Kelly Rowland, Trevante Rhodes, Sean Sagar, Nick Sagar, RonReaco Lee and Kerry O’Malley

Credit: Scripted and directed by Tyler Perry. A Netflix launch.

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