Obsessed
by Steve Shill
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Actor: Ali Larter, Beyoncé Knowles, Bonnie Perlman, Idris Elba, Jerry O'ConnellDirector: Steve Shill
Brand: ELBA,IDRIS
Producer: Beyoncé Knowles
Producer: Damon Lee
Producer: David Loughery
Writer: David Loughery
Producer: George Flynn
Producer: Glenn S. Gainor
Producer: Jeffrey Graup
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 2.40:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-08-04
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Obsessed
Movie Review: Campy Thriller Fun in the Vein of ShowGirls
Summary: 5 Stars
This is not a groundbreaking film & when tackling a genre that was so masterfully done with style and elegant grace in Unfaithful and Fatal Attraction - you really have to bring your GAME in order to make any erotic suspenseful thriller, well, an erotic suspenseful thriller!
OBSESSED, is a great fun enjoyable movie. However, the lack of an R rating really hinders it from becoming spectacular. The movie has its slow low points, but overall, it was an effective thriller with some titillating tension between the actors and actresses. Of course, Ali Later steals the film. One minute without her crazy antics on screen just feels like a life time. The director made an excellent executive decision by keeping Beyonce's screen time to a minimum. The girl has always had and will always have way too much country swagger and after all this time in Hollywood, she has yet to drop it. It's like the winner of Americas Next Top Model not being able to drop the accent in order to do an effective CoverGirl commercial. When Beyonce utters the line: That gurl mayba alotta thangs, but she aint plain - Just makes me want to cringe. There is a comma in that sentence. Please, pause Beyonce. This is a movie, not a song your singing or a track on your CD where you are trying to carry a tune. Someone please get her an acting coach!
I'll give a quick recap of the store, but will not go into full detail, as everyone else's review already has. Derek and Beyonce are a happily married couple that just moved into their new house. On his way to work he bumps into, Lisa, on the elevator and thinks that she's a model. However, she is actually the new temp in the office & it just so happens to be the same office as Derek's. Slowly but surely, she weasels her way to the assistant's desk outside his office & listens in on his calls, goes through his music collection, doesn't give him messages from his wife's missed calls, and so forth. Pretty much the madness ensues since her arrival. I have to hand it to Ali who really deserves an award because she plays crazy Lisa to a tee! Of course, all the girls and gays went crazy for the final showdown scene between the two GURLS! Everyone loves a cat fight & that was one of the major highlights of the movie. Except, it was ruined by Beyonce being ridiculous and insisting the scene be done with her wearing high heels!
Overall, this is a great thriller! I know the reviewers have been trashing this movie left and right. I don't understand what their problem is. I guess they were all looking for the next Fatal Attraction. If that's the case, this isn't it. But if you like silly over the top fun in the vein of ShowGirls, then this is the movie for you. Salut!
Summary of Obsessed
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 4-AUG-2009
Media Type: DVD
Obsessed is one of those movies best described as ?a stylish thriller?: the characters are mostly young and gorgeous, with their white-collar gigs, designer duds, and fancy cars, and if there?s not much of substance to be found beneath those sleek, polished surfaces, well, who says a story must have a message to be entertaining? The comparisons to Fatal Attraction (with its jilted would-be lover going all psycho on the object of her, uh, affections) and Disclosure (with its reverse sexual harassment) are apt enough, but Obsessed is a little different. For starters, unlike the character played by Michael Douglas in Attraction, this film?s Derek Charles (Idris Elba) does little to encourage Lisa Sheridan (Ali Larter), the temp worker at his asset-management firm who gloms onto him like a lamprey sucking on its unwilling host; for another, Derek?s wife, Sharon (Beyonce Knowles), is no wallflower who stands idly and ignorantly by while her life is shredded by her hubby?s evasions and the increasingly crazed tactics of the woman who?s stalking him (it?s to the credit of director Steve Shill and screenwriter David Loughery that nothing whatsoever is made of the fact that Derek is black and Lisa is white). Still, the holes in the plot are big enough to drive several Mercedes sedans through. For one thing, Lisa?s fixation on Derek seems to come out of nowhere (if she has a past, we?re not told about it); what's more, even if Derek has broken his deal with Sharon not to have any female assistants (she was once one herself), it seems mighty extreme for her to kick him out of the house for three months simply for not coming completely clean about his mostly-innocent dealings with Lisa. Still, the film manages to make the viewer feel Derek?s helpless desperation at being targeted by this manipulative nut job, and when Sharon finally confronts her family?s tormentor at the end (?You think you?re crazy? I?ll show you crazy!?), the result is silly but somehow satisfying. --Sam Graham
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