Today, Nini's movie "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger" hit the theatres globally and here's the review: First off we give the movie 9.5 stars which is an A-, it would've been an A+, But Jackie Long and Michael Ealy's acting was not impressive in our opinion. The rest of the cast members however were super fantastic! The movie shows the life and times of 5 friends, all of which have some sort of emotional problems, especially Nini who plays Jazmine as she has lost her mom and really doesn't trust anyone but her brother who is "Chuck" who is played by Chris Brown. The movie interchanges between each members life and a black screen separates each actors scene by saying their name and then their section will come on about their life. The members don't have much dialogue with each other being that its different stories combined into one but they do run across each other and Kat and Nini are best friends also in the movie but the insane fight between them is AWESOME! Nini runs a shop which is left to her by her mom and Kat plays an adoptee who searches for her real mom, but finds her too late. Chris Brown plays Nini's brother and their father is played by Martin Lawrence who plays "Micheal". Lauren London is "Candy" a medical trainee who plays the victim of a brutal rape and accidental pregnancy by Jackie Long and Michael Ealy plays the man who sweeps her off her feet and agrees to help her take care of the baby due to "Candy" not believing in abortions, but she loses the baby in a miscarriage anyway. Meagan Good plays Meagan, Nini's other friend who has much problems with her marriage and gets cheated on by her husband "James" who is played by Derek Luke who is cheating on Meagan with "Judy" who is played by Lashontae Heckard and Meagan has a small lesbian scene in the movie which happens because she is stressing over being cheated on, after which she files for divorce. Extras in the movie are "Tracy Ellis Ross" who plays a prostitute, Jackie Earl Jr who plays a man trying to get at Nini and Brian McKnight who plays himself at a nightclub singing where Nini and Kat end up after Nini gets out of the hospital. Nini is a non trusting person who doesn't have a man and doesn't want one, and never gets one throughout the entire movie and her acting was very good, she even had us believing that she has problems in real life because she played that part so well. Kat is equally brilliant as she is just on point with her character and acts very nicely in the movie and she has a temper scene where she throws things around when she finds her mom is dead and curls into a ball to cry and it actually had us sad as if it was true. Lauren London played her character well also, although she wasn't that believable she actually seemed like she was just acting but still wonderful. Meagan Good did awesome as well and the small lesbian scene which was just a kiss and feels before she stopped herself was played brilliantly. Martin Lawrence plays well too even though he is not in many scenes, but he does a good convincing job of being their dad. Breezy was convincing as a war veteran and as Nini's brother and his best part is when he flips out when he finds out Nini is in a hospital after being smashed into by a truck and goes on a drinking non stop binge which he played the role very well. He also was thought to be dead, killed in battle and Nini played a very convincing role as a concerned stressed out sister and is eventually calmed down by Kat who plays "Tanya"... Jackie Long and Michael Ealy who play "John and Shawn" are OK in the movie and they play their parts well but not very convincing in our opinion. Derek Luke was awesome and played the role of a cheating husband quite nicely and the smack by Meagan to him was hilarious as he looked like he was about to cry by his lip quivering, and the smack to Lashontae was awesome as well which started a full blown fight between the two in the night club. At the end of the movie all friends have a moment where they realize everything they have been through has made them stronger and ready to face life more deeply and affectionate. And at the end Kat (Tanya) is dating "Chuck" (Breezy) and she cheats on him with a woman, and although chuck doesn't mind, Jazmine (Nini) who is very overprotective over her brother does mind, and she confronts Tanya about it and it turns into a huge fight after Tanya tells Jazmine to mind her own damn business or she can join her mom. The fight scene lasted for 5 minutes and it was actually pretty good, they were really convincing and it seemed like they really were fighting. After a while of separation, they finally realize that they are best friends and they shouldn't let anything come between them. They bump into each other at a park and first don't say anything, but Tanya sits next to Jazmine and apologizes and begins to explain why she cheated on him with a flashback, and it turns out she just got drunk and slipped up. The two girls agree to never fight again and they hug and smile which was a touching scene. The movie ends with all friends rolling in the grass which we don't understand what that represents, but many say freedom and strength like the grass. The movie lasts 1 hour and 35 minutes and its really good from start to finish and it has been given an R rating due to alcohol use, little drug use, slight nudity and sex and profanity and intense scenes and it is classified as Drama.....Nini wanted initially to have a pg-13 rating, but it didn't turn out that way and all of the cast members have said they are very proud of it. The movie has received mostly positive reviews and is currently the hottest movie out right now, and has attracted over 72 million people so far and has brought in over 99 million dollars since its release. So congrats to Nini and all of the cast members on this wonderful movie! Also Nini has opened another movie theatre in Downtown Manhattan where the movie is also being showed, so she has one in AC and Manhattan so make sure to go there and check it out! Nini is scheduled to speak on the movie by interview within the next couple days so make sure you lookout for that as well!
