What do you get when you put two of Hollywood's worst actresses, Beyonce Knowles and Ali Larter in the same movie? A surprisingly decent little paint by the numbers thriller.
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04/26/09
Obsessed (2009)
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Reviews Counted:83
Fresh:16
Rotten:67
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: The inevitable Fatal Attraction comparisons aside, Obsessed is a generic, toothless thriller both instantly predictable and instantly forgettable.
Theatrical Release:Apr 24, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $68,261,644
Synopsis: Hell hath no fury like an office temp scorned in director Stephen Shill's domestic thriller OBSESSED. Executive-produced by entertainment megastar Beyonce Knowles, the film stars Knowles as Sharon,... [More]
Starring: Idris Elba, Beyonce Knowles, Ali Larter, Bruce McGill
Director: Steve Shill
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Reviews for Obsessed
Obsessed is best enjoyed as glossy, campy fantasy
04/24/09
Spends much time spinning its wheels and making auds practically beg for an explanation to all the madness and obsession.
04/27/09
Top CriticThe best ladies’ final to be seen this side of the French Open.
05/29/09
Obsessed delivers in its limited way, as the audience audibly responds to the characters’ choices and actions, even though we know exactly what to expect.
05/01/09
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.'
07/31/09
The climax arrives in the form of a glorious girl-on-girl smackdown that will someday make a fine clip on YouTube. Until then, do what the actors should've done: hold out for something better.
04/24/09
Don't look for hot sex or boiled bunnies in Obsessed, a mild-mannered version of Fatal Attraction that seems to be hoping racial politics will fill in for a script.
04/27/09
A hollow experience altogether, based entirely on its protagonist's despicable stupidity and unable to connect in a real way to anything human.
04/28/09
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.
05/29/09
Just when I want cheese, you give me caviar.
04/26/09
The payoff might be the perfect visceral ending for your aggressive modern woman, but a fine piece of storytelling it is not.
04/24/09
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.
05/29/09
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!
07/29/09
So hammy and overwrought that it's actually hysterically entertaining.
05/28/09
Obsessed is a safe, dull morality play. The most that can be said on its behalf is that, unlike Fatal Attraction, no bunnies were boiled in the picture.
04/27/09
Top CriticThis is the movie that should have been titled 'Fighting'
04/28/09
The immaculate Beyoncé Knowles and devastatingly handsome Idris Elba attack their silly parts with a ferocity the gives this dumpy little movie the spark it needs to be compelling.
04/27/09
Vanity bunkum of the first order wait until TV for this one.
05/29/09
This biracial entry in the psycho-bitch stalker sweepstakes is inept and stupid but not without its base pleasures.
04/27/09
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April 26, 2009:
Obsessed: 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. 
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April 26, 2009:
A compelling reminder that Hell still hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially when she's a crazy, two-faced psycho.
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