Plot
Derek Charles, Idris Elba, is a successful assets manager who is married to the very beautiful Sharon, Beyoncé Knowles. Together they have a beautiful kid, and they are moving to a beautiful house. They are the perfect family. He is a laughing and faithful family man that is teased by his friends as a whipped domesticated husband. One day a stunning temp worker, played by Ali Larter, eyes him, and from that moment she starts obsessing about him and pursues him aggressively to have him for herself, never minds that he is not interested to her constant temptations and the relationship that she built is a delusion of her sick imagination, and that what she is doing may led to the destruction of his family and ruining his career.It is obvious that the filmmakers behind this dud had
Fatal Attraction in their mind as a roadmap, and it is also obvious that they failed miserably. It is a Fatal Attraction without mutual attraction, and doesn’t even live up to its title
Obsessed since what we see on the screen is not actual obsession, it is a mere delusion. Ali Larter’s Lisa is a very attractive and beautiful woman, a 5’ 8” tall blonde supermodel who was described by Derek's friend as a temptuous not a temp. If that is not enough, she is also great in her secretarial work, so we should not buy that such a woman would work as a temporary office worker without proper explanation.
The plot practically wrote itself, and it didn’t miss a beat. The acting was inept, which wasn’t the actors fault since their roles were one dimensional, except for Ali Larter who did a decent job with a role that has more meat than the others. Poor Idris Elba was bad with the thinnest role ever written for a film hero. He had the same expression on his face during the entire run of the film; he must have been sleep walking through the shooting. I know that a leading role for him must have been a tempting offer, but this guy deserves better than that. Beyoncé had little to do through the film playing the cliché role of an opinionated strong black woman, and except for the final showdown between the two women, she did nothing memorable in the film.
I would have given this uninteresting unsuspenseful thriller a 1 star rating, but the cat-fight at the end the film was every male’s fantasy that made me generous, so I pumped it to
2/5.
