Obsessed (2009)
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.
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
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Idris Elba
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Beyonce Knowles
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Ali Larter
Lisa -
Bruce McGill
Joe Gage -
Jerry O'Connell
Ben -
Christine Lahti
Reese -
Matthew Humphreys
Patrick -
Scout Taylor-Compton
Samantha -
Nathan Myers
Kyle -
Nicolas Myers
Kyle -
Bonnie Perlman
Marge -
Richard R. Ruccolo
Hank -
Ron Rogge
Roger -
Meredith Roberts
Connie -
Nelson Mashita
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All Critics (88) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (77) | DVD (10)
A silly, contrived film.
Top CriticElba and Larter are actually pretty good. Beyonce, through, strikes one note throughout.
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.
As far as the crazy-stalker-chick genre goes, Obsessed isn't horrible. It's just intensely simple-minded.
Spends much time spinning its wheels and making auds practically beg for an explanation to all the madness and obsession.
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.
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.
Fatal Attraction "lite" too risque for young teens.
[Blu-Ray Review] What would you expect from an urban thriller whose original working title was Oh No She Didn't.
"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.
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.
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)
Seldom does a movie thriller misfire so severely as this one.
Obsessed left me completely uninterested
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.
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.'
A compelling reminder that Hell still hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially when she's a crazy, two-faced psycho.
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!
Slow, one-note and climactically risible.
Not even the lovely Beyoncé Knowles can save this clichéd thriller.
A dim reworking of Fatal Attraction, directed with anonymous efficiency.
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.
It's execrable; a fist-chewing embarrassment that has no right to a theatrical release.
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.
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