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Obsessed is a dim reworking of Fatal Attraction

By Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard  29.05.09
 
Obsessed

Unwanted attention: Beyoncé Knowles and Idris Elba in Obsessed

This dim reworking of Fatal Attraction, directed with anonymous efficiency by Steve Shill, has Idris Elba as the chased but this time entirely chaste husband and Beyoncé as his wife.

Ali Larter plays a temp at Elba’s ghastly firm, who is the wicked witch determined to break up the marriage. She doesn’t succeed because the husband, unlike Michael Douglas, refuses to be seduced and the wife, unlike Anne Archer, packs a punch that is more than a match for Ms Larter’s wiles — in a catfight between the two women, the singing star seems prepared to do anything to prove her status as an actress.

But with this screenplay — which generated hoots of laughter from its press audience — she has a very hard road to hoe. Larter as the pathological minx is the best thing about it.


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Not even Idris Elba could salvage this film.

Beyonce is abysmal.

Do not waste your money. Dire.

- Caroline, EC2 London


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