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Obsessed (2009)

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19

Average Rating: 3.7/10
Reviews Counted: 88
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 71

The inevitable Fatal Attraction comparisons aside, Obsessed is a generic, toothless thriller both instantly predictable and instantly forgettable.

5

Average Rating: 3/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 19

The inevitable Fatal Attraction comparisons aside, Obsessed is a generic, toothless thriller both instantly predictable and instantly forgettable.

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Enticement leads to terror when a sexy office temp forms a dangerous fixation on a successful and happily married asset manager. Derek Charles (Idris Elba) is good at his job; so good that he's recently earned a big promotion. He's worked hard to get to the top, and when his workday is finished Derek has the luxury of returning home to his beautiful wife, Sharon (Beyoncé Knowles), and their healthy newborn child. But Derek's perfect life begins to crumble when sexy new temp worker Lisa (Ali

PG-13,

Mystery & Suspense, Drama

David Loughery, William Packer

Aug 4, 2009

$68.3M

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All Critics (88) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (77) | DVD (10)

A silly, contrived film.

May 4, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies
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Elba and Larter are actually pretty good. Beyonce, through, strikes one note throughout.

May 4, 2009 Full Review Source: At the Movies
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Don't think that exploiting female paranoia and the promise of Knowles throwing punches is enough to make up for your unabashed B-movie hitting the skids at the halfway point.

April 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
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As far as the crazy-stalker-chick genre goes, Obsessed isn't horrible. It's just intensely simple-minded.

April 27, 2009 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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Spends much time spinning its wheels and making auds practically beg for an explanation to all the madness and obsession.

April 27, 2009 Full Review Source: Variety
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If the producers had done their work properly on Obsessed, I would not now be wishing I could reclaim the two hours I wasted on this tepid, sexless, thrill-free melodrama.

April 27, 2009 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comments (2)
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Fans of the Final Destination flicks should enjoy seeing how Larter's horror roots are revisited in the over-the-top climax of this trashy exercise in glossy B-movie-making.

February 15, 2013 Full Review Source: Georgia Straight

Fatal Attraction "lite" too risque for young teens.

December 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

[Blu-Ray Review] What would you expect from an urban thriller whose original working title was Oh No She Didn't.

August 31, 2009 Full Review Source: Dread Central

"I knew it would come to this," hisses Sharon when finding Lisa lurking around her beautiful Brentwood home--at which point I exclaimed, "Me too!"--and then the fun (and, for many, the entire purpose of the film) starts.

August 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Reverse Shot
Reverse Shot

Ali Larter gives good crazy, but Obsessed is torpedoed by some unforgivable, easy-to-fix story hiccups and, mostly, a terrible performance by Beyonce Knowles, who alternates between woodenness and one-note histrionics.

August 6, 2009 Full Review Source: Shared Darkness
Shared Darkness

By the time it ended, I wasn't so much angry anymore as I was a little giddy at the film becoming so laughably bad. (Blu-ray Edition)

August 6, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

Seldom does a movie thriller misfire so severely as this one.

August 6, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

Obsessed left me completely uninterested

August 5, 2009 Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review
3BlackChicks Review

Bottle blonde sexpot in heat with boundary issues on McMansion home invasion spree, with alpha male power as the ultimate female aphrodisiac. All that's missing is the stained blue dress. I did not have sex with that woman, she had sex with me.

August 2, 2009 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze
NewsBlaze

Another movie that demonstrates it's bad feng shui to place a glass coffee table beneath a chandelier beneath an attic that can't even support the weight of a blond wearing little more than the whipped-cream bikini she sported in 'Varsity Blues.'

July 31, 2009 Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

A compelling reminder that Hell still hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially when she's a crazy, two-faced psycho.

July 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Sly Fox
Sly Fox

They did this movie a few years ago. It was called "The Temp". So many holes in the plot, I stopped counting. An unintentional laugh riot!

July 29, 2009 Full Review Source: CNNRadio
CNNRadio

Slow, one-note and climactically risible.

June 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]
Observer [UK]

Not even the lovely Beyoncé Knowles can save this clichéd thriller.

June 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Sunday Mail [UK]
Sunday Mail [UK]

A dim reworking of Fatal Attraction, directed with anonymous efficiency.

May 29, 2009 Full Review Source: This is London
This is London

If Obsessed were a perfume, it would ming like happy hour at a squids' brothel. This atrocious, and atrociously derivative affair is not only an early contender for worst film of 2009.

May 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Film4

It's execrable; a fist-chewing embarrassment that has no right to a theatrical release.

May 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Times [UK]
Times [UK]

Idris Elba, so good in The Wire, looks a long way from Baltimore in this overcooked Fatal Attraction-style yarn about a cocksure executive laid low by the office temp.

May 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]
Guardian [UK]

Audience Reviews for Obsessed

Who wouldlike this crap, its so boring and stupid, i being generous with 2 stars, a bad movie.
August 15, 2011
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OBSESSED falls flat with Beyoncé as a LEAD actress. This proves that singers canNOT be actors/actresses.
August 4, 2011
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