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Obsessed

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2 star:		(13)
1 star:		(25)

 

 

Want to see a supremely watered down version of Fatal Attraction? If so, look no further than Obsessed, a potboiler that holds back much more than it succeeds in terms of being a potboiler. The Wire's Idris Elba stars as a successful corporate man who also plays loving family man to his wife (Beyonce Knowles), and soon becomes the target of psychotic young temp (Heroes' Ali Larter). Wholly predictable and cliche, Obsessed is mind numbingly dull from beginning to end, but I guess this is the kind of thing that passes for suspense these days that mainstream audiences seem to eat right up. Elba is disappointing wasted in his role, while Knowles and Larter do their respective parts at looking gorgeous, and doing nothing else as well. All in all, Obsessed is something that you could easily save yourself a few brain cells by not giving the time of day, and spending your viewing time on something more worthwhile.

Beyonce was not right for this menial part. Her acting wasn't for this part. (Beyonce is too good for this) Now she is a good actor and I would have loved to see her as the wife but this tacky story line was not for her. Idris Elba played his part. (I love me some Idris!!) And Ali Larter played hers . BUT this movie was low grade; well the story line was anyway and worst of all it wasn't finished.
Okay in the end, what happened? Did they go to court? Did the detective find out the truth? (I mean the truth speaks for itelf but the movie should give you the answer) Did Beyonce understand what happened without you guessing? I mean in the end there are a lot of gaps.
Overall, the movie is okay but wait for it to come out on cable or borrow it!!! TRUST ME!!! It should be televised on network tv maybe even BET.

Very good movie. Genuine acting from all. Enjoyed the plot, and was surprised by the ending. Would recommend this film.

This movie seemed like a combination of Jungle Fever, with a twist of Fatal Attraction, and Wall Street, all in one. I liked the role Derek played of rejecting Lisa's advances. Usually these interracial roles are portrayed in script, by weak black men characters, all too willing to get involved with white women, and wreak their present relationships. Even King Kong was portrayed as big, strong, and dumb with jungle fever, towards a blond white woman, over the numerous black women already on that make believe island.

It was refreshing to see a strong, committed, black family man, finally resist a white woman for a change. Refreshing to see him stay loyal to his marriage, and try to keep his family together. It was especially uplifting to see that Derek was successful, and nowhere as insecure, or confused as Tiger Woods. (The self-proclaimed Cau-blin-asian) The Tiger Woods type would have given in quickly to Lisa, with his marriage ending in divorce because of infidelity.

Derek was the perfect example of what to do when you are tall, dark, handsome, financially successful, being pursued, stalked, blackmailed, by an overly aggressive white woman. I was hoping that Derek did not give up, nor give in to Lisa. She had a smile that could win anyone over, she was attractive, and very convincing for the part she played. Beyonce showed the ugly, disrespectful side of black women, and why most successful black men stampede to white women. Beyonce expected Derek to remain faithful to her, while he was out in the streets suffering emotionally, while Derek kept a roof over her head.

In real life most black unemployed wives, would not put their six figure salary husbands out for 3 months, after just purchasing their first dream home. I found Beyonce's actions to be the typical black woman response, excessive anger, insecurity, cursing out, fussing, slowly driving Derek to any available woman. When the movie first came on, Beyonce played hard to get in bed to her own husband, and was trying to get out of having sex with him.

The cat-fight showdown between Beyonce and Lisa, was not believable on Beyonce's part. Beyonce offered her arm in order to save Lisa from falling 30 feet to her death. Lisa had invaded Beyonce's home, Lisa was trying to kill her, and Beyonce was trying to save Lisa's life. Beyonce made a stupid decision to try and save Lisa, because Lisa decidedly tried to pull Beyonce down, so both would fall 30 feet to their deaths.

Over-all a nice refreshing outcome to a growing black men, white women phenomenon. Idris Elba, was the perfect actor for the part of Derek, Ali Larter, was the perfect actress for the part of Lisa. Beyonce unknowingly played the perfect part of why black men bolt out the back door, to abandon black women. The baby did not look like Derek or Beyonce, could ever be his parents. The movie looked great on Blue-Ray and the sound track was awesome, if played on surround sound stereo speakers.

Did they really need to try and remake 'Fatal Attraction'? And why do they think Beyonce is an actress? Oh, wait a minute...she Executive Produced this so she has to get that credit just like she has 'Producer' credits for Cadillac Records. Hmmm, so if you back the movie you are instantly considered an actress. What a concept. Oh well, it doesn't matter. This mindless waste of film is not necessary. Don't waste your time or money. Thankfully, my hubby and I didn't have to pay to see this. We read enough reviews and heard from our friends that this was a bore.

The absurdity of this film, the movie trailer gave the whole film away and the trailer is better than the movie.

First of all Beyonce better not quit her day job cause acting is not her thing. Beyonce cannot pull off the wife scorned and the only reason she got this part is because her father is one of the producers.

Beyonce's character Sharon is not rootable at all, she's too damn possessive, "Why didn't you call me back," "Are you listening to me," "Eat something," shut up. The ultimate "I thought we had an agreement no female assistants." Her husband Derrick is not in charge of who gets hired to work as a temp, so she shouldn't be blaming him for that. Then when she meets Lisa, Sharon is acting like a bitch with a stick up her ass. When they first met Lisa did nothing to show she was obsessed with Derrick and just making conversation but Sharon just made her insecurities show. Does she not have faith in her husband for him not to go sleeping around.

Derrick being an idiot not telling his wife Lisa came on to him just because Sharon just talked her sister off the ledge. What a pathetic plot device to use to keep him from telling his wife. Then when Sharon finds out and Derrick is telling her he didn't do anything with the woman, Sharon automatically believes Lisa's story and not her own husband. She kicks her husband out of the house for 3 months, where there is no solid proof of him cheating. When she kicked him out did he go out and cheat and be with another woman like some men would do, nope. She's acting crusty for 3 whole months of not talking to him and all for what? How the hell is she kicking him out and she got no damn job, did she pay one bill during those 3 months, no she didn't because she has no income.

Why was Lisa targeting Derrick specifically, there was no reason why she became obsessed with him out of the blue. Like others said they gay assistant or Derrick's best friend could have been behind the whole thing but no they weren't. So makes no sense at all. The ending is so predictable, girl catfight and the police show up the minute the catfight is finished and her husband shows up right along with the police, what a piece of crap.

At first glance of this movie, I thought, great another hand that rocks the cradle! No one needs to suffer through that again. There have been so many movies out there with psycho stalkers, and all have been pretty lame. While this movie has basically the same plot line, it differs in Derrick; the main character does not show any interest in his psycho stalker Nicole. I mean NO interest. He is very clear with her that he is happily married to his wife Sharon. Still she stalks him and has crazy delusions of their imaginary future together. This chic is absolutely crazy! Sharon finds out about her husband's stalker when Nicole (the stalker) tries to commit suicide in Derricks room during the work outing. That is not even the worst of what this crazy bitch does to these poor people. You'll have to watch the movie. I will tell you this; Sharon (the wife) is bad ass! In other movies the wives seemed fragile, you felt bad for them. You do not have to feel bad for Sharon, she is no joke! Let's just say she gets her revenge, and oh how sweet it is. This movie was great! It had me fired up the whole time. Ladies, I am telling you, you are going to want to go through the TV and kick this girl's ass for Sharon. Gentlemen this may be a chic flick, but if you take anything from this movie I hope it is this; NEVER EVER keep something like this from your significant other. It will not turn out good for you. Crazy chics just don't go away. They just get crazier.

A movie that borrows its theme from A hand that rocks the cradle, Disclosure and Fatal Attraction is a movie that stars Idris Elba, Beyonce and Ali Larter. Beyonce and Idris are a young couple who are in love and trouble comes in the form of obsessive Ali Larter as Lisa Sheridan who is a temp in Idris's office. She becomes obsessed with Idris and trouble ensues. It is up to the wife, to take matters in her hands.
I thought the movie was badly directed with no chemistry between Idris and Beyonce. Idris was great in the Wire but is wasted. Beyonce needs some acting lessons because she is extremely wooden and unconvincing as the wife scorned. There are several holes in the story which are unexplained, like Lisa's past. I only watched this movie because it was on Netflix instant play and my next rental had not arrived. I give it one star. 2/17/10

I purchase the movie Obsessed a few months ago and since then have watch it a number of times. First of all Beyonce' should REALLY stick to singing...that's where her raw talent lies. I think Sanaa Lathan or Gabrielle Union would have been better casted for the role of "Sharon", but since this movie was produced by Ms. Knowles and her father, who else would play the part other than she? Now here are some of the flaws I found to be noticeable through out the movie. In the beginning of the movie, Sharon clearly states that the baby, Kyle is 2 years old. When Derek asks Sharon what her plans are for the night (right before he leaves for the office Christmas party) Sharon tells him "the usual, formula, oatmeal...." What parent feeds their kid formula at the age of two? Sharon is a stay-at-home mom. Before Derek leaves for the party, she tells him to make sure that he eats something if he's going to be drinking....why didn't she cook something for him to eat at home? When she tells him that he needs to eat something, she reminds him that he drank too much last year at the party which resulted in her becoming pregnant and giving birth to Kyle. If that were true, Kyle would only be three months old (if conceived in December, Kyle would have been born in September)...so how is Kyle two years old? She also mentions earlier in the movie when she's talking about her upcoming school schedule that Derek told her that once he got promoted and she could have a baby and then return to school. This sounds like baby Kyle was planned and not mistakenly conceived out of drunken passion. This movie was so predictable from beginning to end. Idris Elba, Ali Larter and Jerry O'Connell played convincing roles, but there was absolutely no chemistry among the cast. Beyonce' is a talented singer and performer, but she has definitely not been gifted with the acting bug. Obsessed was a diaster in the making...literally.

And Ali Larter ain't bad either, so the cat fight alone is worth two stars, even though within the first three minutes the director saw the need to foreshadow where the chick, err... I mean chips would fall. But really, Ali is way out of her weight class, and no where near as competitive as Missi Pyle in Bringing Down the House, as she goes a few rounds with the Queen Latifah dialogue spewing Knowles. Meanwhile somewhere, Michael Douglas is telling Catherine Zeta Jones pass the T-Mobile so he can call his attorneys to find out if the master copies for any more of his films are missing. By the time I stopped paying attention I felt like I had dropped in on a Douglas film festival featuring Fatal Attraction, Disclosure and The Game with the climax of War of the Roses thrown in for full effect.
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She might be deranged but her intuitiveness wasn't that far off seeing how Charles' possessive paranoid spouse, Sharon (Beyonce) used to be his secretary. Lisa will not be deterred by any measure of obstacle, Derrick is the non-aggressive objectified prize of her fantasies and Sharon, well she's a woman who might look like the girl daddy always wanted you to marry but she obviously no stranger to applying an ample supply of Vaseline before a fight but regrettably 'thespianly' challenged. Throw in Christine Lahti (in an absolutely throwaway role) as the investigating detective desperately in need of a clue, Jerry O'Connell [...]into oblivion) as the horny, wandering eye office best buddy and a stereotypically gay office assistant (Matthew Humphreys) who just has to gossip and before you know it, we've cut and pasted the middle third of Douglas's career.

But for this movie derivative and clichéd are not enough, so inanity is tossed in to create a trifecta. At one juncture, Sharon kicks out Derrick because according to her logic he exhibited no trust in her although it has been made perfectly clear to the audience she had even less in him. When she finally relents and the estranged couple agrees to re-unite after three months, the pound of flesh she exacts (in jest evidently) are the keys to his Benz even though she continues to tool around in her immaculately conditioned hybrid Escalade. During this three month period BTW, Lisa makes no attempt to contact Derrick , when presumptively, he would be at his psychological low point.

I'm only mildly pleased while the put upon couple had a toddler, they had not yet committed to a sacrificial pet.