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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.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual material including some suggestive dialogue, some violence and thematic content.

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Dramas

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,... 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, a one-time temp who has become a dutiful wife to investment brokerage hot-shot Derek (Idris Elba of THE WIRE), as well as the mother to their son. Further temp-tation arrives in the form of Lisa (Ali Larter of HEROES), who sets her blonde ambitions on Derek from day one. Sharon is wary but Derek remains a model of marital fidelity in the face of Lisa's repeated flirtations--inappropriate incidents that he avoids telling Sharon about. But when Derek rejects Lisa's sexual advances at the company Christmas party, her downward spiral of romantic obsession leads her to pursue Derek on a corporate retreat and attempt suicide in his hotel room. Promptly sent into spousal exile, Derek must win back Sharon's trust while the two attempt to put Lisa's psychotic episode behind them. Lisa is one temp who's not easily reassigned, though, and her increasingly brazen intrusions into Derek and Sharon's life auger an inevitable reckoning between the would-be seducer and wife. First-time film director Shill gets a wonderfully wicked performance from Larter, while Knowles shows off her claws in the film's climactic showdown. Taking its place alongside such films as FATAL ATTRACTION and DISCLOSURE, OBSESSED is a rollicking reminder that all's fair in love and stalking. [More]

Starring: Idris Elba, Beyonce Knowles, Ali Larter, Bruce McGill

Starring: Idris Elba, Beyonce Knowles, Ali Larter, Bruce McGill, Jerry O'Connell, Christine Lahti

Director: Steve Shill

Director: Steve Shill
Screenwriter: David Loughery, Will Packer
Composer: Jim Dooley
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment

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Aug 4, 2009

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.40

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Dubbed - French
  • Subtitles - English, French

Additional Release Material:

  • Behind the Scenes: Obsessed: Dressed to Kill

Featurette:

  • 1. Playing Together Nicely
  • 2. Girl Fight!
 
 
 
 

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Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
08/19/09
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

"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.

Full Review Source: Reverse Shot | comment Comment
08/08/09
Leo Goldsmith
Leo Goldsmith
Reverse Shot

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

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
08/06/09
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

Obsessed left me completely uninterested

Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review | comment Comment
08/05/09
Kamal  'The Diva' Larsuel
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
3BlackChicks Review

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.'

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
07/31/09
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

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!

Full Review Source: CNNRadio | comment Comment
07/29/09
Paul Chambers
Paul Chambers
CNNRadio

Slow, one-note and climactically risible.

Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
06/02/09
Philip French
Philip French
Observer [UK]

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

Full Review Source: Sunday Mail [UK] | comment Comment
06/02/09
Mickey McMonagle
Mickey McMonagle
Sunday Mail [UK]

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

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
05/29/09
Derek Malcolm
Derek Malcolm
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.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
05/29/09
Ali Catterall
Ali Catterall
Channel 4 Film

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

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
05/29/09
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide
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.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
05/29/09
Xan Brooks
Xan Brooks
Guardian [UK]

Everyone involved should feel cheap and used.

Full Review Source: Digital Spy | comment 2 Comments
05/29/09
Stella Papamichael
Stella Papamichael
Digital Spy

Vanity bunkum of the first order wait until TV for this one.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
05/29/09
Rob Daniel
Rob Daniel
Sky Movies

Lurching woozily between daytimesoap psychodrama and a brainless, claws-out, pseudo-feminist slasher flick, Obsessed is one boiled rabbit away from bad-film nirvana.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
05/29/09
Ken McIntyre
Ken McIntyre
Total Film

It could be the least erotic thriller ever made, unless die-you-bitch catfights through broken attic floorboards constitute some sort of kinky subgenre.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
05/29/09
Tim Robey
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph

This is a guilty pleasure from start to finish and there is absolutely nothing new here but Obsessed is brilliant fun.

Full Review Source: Heart 106.2 | comment Comment
05/29/09
Simon Thompson
Simon Thompson
Heart 106.2

Horrid, hackneyed and half-witted.

Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | comment Comment
05/29/09
Christopher Tookey
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]

Beyonce's latest movie contains more laughs than the entire output of Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell and Eddie Murphy. Just one problem - Obsessed is meant to be a thriller.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
05/29/09
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

Obsessed is both a front runner for the worst movie of the year and a must-see stinker.

Full Review Source: Sun Online | comment Comment
05/29/09
Sun Online
 
 
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