You have to hand it to film-maker, Netflix content provider and general entertainment impresario Tyler Perry: even within his self-created empire, he’s still capable of making an unexpected turn. Often, he cranks out his inimitably strange brand of broad comedies, histrionic melodramas and combinations of the two at a hasty clip. But sometimes, he decides that he wants to revive the inspirational spirit of mail delivery seen in Kevin Costner’s The Postman.
That’s admittedly a glib way of describing The Six Triple Eight, the story of a real-life second world war battalion composed entirely of Black women – the only such group to serve in Europe during the war. Perry’s third 2024 release (although maybe there’s still time for a fourth to emerge from his Atlanta compound) follows the battalion on an assignment to complete the seemingly impossible task of sorting through a massive backlog of mail to and from US soldiers fighting overseas.
