Soap opera-like in delivery, yet emotionally sanitized, Tyler Perry ’s Prime drama “ Duplicity ” is a languorous affair. It’s a strange-looking, odd-feeling film that gestures toward mystery and larger conspiracy, but it seldom pulls on these threads. Instead, it ends up an anodyne political drama that says little of note.

The most charitable thing I’m willing to say about Tyler Perry’s Duplicity is that it probably won’t end up being the worst movie of the year. This is high praise for the man behind such execrable dross as Beauty in Black,