Obsessed

OBSESSED (2009) - Sept. 1, 2009
Thoroughly inept right from the first moments of the film all the way through to the conclusion, this was a surprisingly bad film about an executive who finds himself the victim of an obsessive temp. From the cheesy, overbearing, downright grating score to the dull, cliche-ridden screenplay, to the flat direction and low-rent cinematography, this is pretty much a failure in almost every regard. For a movie that purports to be a thriller, there is a distinct lack of thrills here -- which wouldn't necessarily be a problem, except that the movie spends an eternity just setting things up in the most dull and clunky way imaginable, and then seems more interested in terrible melodrama than in thrills. I've seen films that looked worse, or that had worse performances, or a worse screenplay, but it's rare to see a movie that's just so consistently inept on every single level. I think the only good thing I can say about this film is that Idris Elba gave a pretty good performance, or at least as good as is possible given the material he had to work with. So bad... 1/2*