Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Obsessed: Fatal Attraction 2

How is this for a premise: Ali Larter and Beyonce Knowles having a catfight to the death over some dude? Interesting right? The problem is the dude. If he was some kind of an Adonis or a Brad Pitt, it would be understandable. But he's some random black dude and he isn't even in the caliber of Denzel, or Usher, or even Eddie Muphy.
It is mind boggling.
It's I believe I can fly mode ala Seal and Heidi Klum.
It's improbable, every man is envious.
At least it's fiction, to say the most.

The plot: Idis Elba and Beyonce have a newborn son, an illustrious career, and are settling into a new house. Ali Larter is temp in the guy's office. She sees something in the guy which is impervious to the naked eye, and stalks, harrasses and obssesses about him to the point that it is supposed to be scary in a fatal way.

The funny thing is I cannot reconcile by any means that this guy can reject Ali Larter coming onto him in the bathroom, initiating all the moves, or an Ali Larter who flashes her body covered only by black lingerie in her full glory. She even had to resort to drugging him just to do the nasty.

By the final act where Beyonce and Ali Larter entangle in a catfight, I am laughing my ass off and waiting for the expected to happen, a gory death for Larter, pobably with her falling from the stais or something. True enough, she dies a gruesome death falling into a hole in the ceiling with the chandelier falling on top of her.

While it must be obvious that this movie was made to warn cheating husbands of psychotic obsessed flings, I could not get the mental image of Ali Larter in my head, over-all doing the opposite. They should have probably used a different actress, I have my biases I admit. Who doesn't?

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