It avoids the template for a while, but by the end, it’s doing everything that every other film of its genre does, right down to the reconciliation that occurs in a public setting.īut it starts well.
In fact, it is to be admired for being something that few films have found financial success at being: an African-American romantic comedy.Īlas, even without being a retread of other films, and even ignoring the glut in the marketplace, “Deliver Us from Eva” is still only slightly better than most of its kind. It is not the fault of “Deliver Us from Eva,” however, that there has been a slew of rom-coms in recent weeks. The movie critic has seen it all before - in this case, he has seen it three times in the past five weeks. Hence it is the movie critic who grows tiredest the fastest of films in which people either hate each other or like each other but under false pretenses, and in which hilarity is supposed to ensue but almost never does. The movie critic, however, sees all of them. The average person, you see, isn’t going to watch “Maid in Manhattan” AND “Two Weeks Notice” AND “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” AND “Deliver Us from Eva.” The average person, when faced with four romantic comedies being released within six weeks of each other, will see one, maybe two of them.
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