Trailer Review: Obsessed

Posted by Paul Clark


Remember all of the sex-soaked stalker thrillers that flooded the moviegoing landscape in the years following Fatal Attraction? Obsessed looks like it could have fit into that cycle, and I don’t mean that in a good way. As the high-powered businessman whose wandering eye leads him to the worst possible woman, Idris Elba is yet another in a long line of Wire cast members unable to make the jump to big-screen stardom. And do I detect an anti-interracial relationships undercurrent? It’s hard to imagine a movie nowadays about a white man sleeping with a psychotic African-American woman, who then threatens to tear apart his idyllic family. To say nothing of a gender switch, with the cheating spouse being an African-American woman and the one-night-stand-turned-stalker a white man. But who really cares about eggheaded stuff like that when we get to see Beyoncé having a catfight with Ali Larter, right? Honestly, I could care less either way. I’ve seen this done too many times already to bother with it yet again.


Comments

Denzel Hawke said:

Why is it that every time you critique a film with a minority actor/actress in it, you find the film at fault as some perceived injustice to whitey?  I bet you have nothing to say about Birth of a Nation where the black people are crazy soley because their black. You probably find that justified, a film where the minorities portray their rightful place in society. You seriously need to check yourself.

January 4, 2009 6:19 PM

diane johnson said:

Idris Elba is doing just great with the transition to the big screen. To very many of us actually. Escipally in Daddy's Little Girl, and now 'Obsessed' this really looks good. Seems just as good as 'Fatal Attraction' was to us back then...you go Idris with your true english accent you are the Man. This is definitley the next Denzel Washington.   give it up for idris the brother is fiiiiiiine,

January 6, 2009 9:58 PM

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