Obsessed (Blu-ray)

Give Obsessed some credit it knows it's a rip-off of Fatal Attraction and other stalker-themed suspense thrillers, so it doesn't waste any time setting things up for us. In fact, within the first five minutes, I literally figured out exactly how the movie would end! All the pieces of the film cliche like are put into place immediately. Sharon and Derek (Beyonce Knowles and Idris Elba) move into their new house and check everything out, which is very helpful for us in the audience to know exactly which parts of the house will be factors when the stalker inevitably breaks in. The film quickly establishes that Derek has money and is well-respected and successful ...  Read the complete review

Steve Shill directs this drama movie OBSESSED. The film centres on Idris Elba's character Derek who is a successful businessman. He is happily married to Sharon played by Beyonce Knowles and has a young son. Afyer moving in to their new house Derek appears to have the perfect life. Nonetheless, when Ali Larter's character Lisa starts work at Derek's workplace she takes a shine to him. After paying Lisa a compliment, she makes her move for Derek who resists, but for how much longer. When Sharon finds out about Lisa's pursuit of Derek the claws come out, but who will end up with their man. This film is very similiar to Basic Instinct and Fatal ...  Read the complete review

As if there aren't enough of them, Steve Shill brings us another Fatal Attraction knock off, with the added bonus of being a star vehicle for Beyonce Knowles who, let's be honest, hardly needs the extra publicity. The only bonus is that it brings to a bigger audience Idris Elba who, on the fantastic HBO show The Wire, turned in one of the finest TV performances in recent years. The premise consists of high flying businessman Derek Charles (Elba) being stalked by office temp Lisa Sheridan (Ali Larter), whilst his bemused wife Sharon (Knowles) grows increasingly more jealous and irritating as the film progresses, even asking Derek to fire Lisa because she's too ...  Read the complete review

Obsessed belongs to the same genre as Fatal Attraction and Derailed, although with a difference, as this time the man tries hard to resist the seductive clutches of the femme fatale. That won't save him though. Derek Charles (Idris Elba) has a dream life and a dream family. He's a highly successful asset-manager married to his voluptuous ex-assistant Sharon (Beyonce Knowles), and has a cute toddler son. The three of them have just moved house and it seems they have the perfect future cut out for them. But it all starts to go wrong when he meets the flirtatious new temp Lisa (Ali Larter) in the lift at work, and begins a friendly, jokey working relationship ...  Read the complete review

Derek and Sharon Charles seem to have a perfect marriage, the two fell in love when Sharon (Beyonce Knowles) was a temp at Derek's (Idris Elba) office where Derek works as the Executive Vice President of Gage Bendix. Sharon has stayed at home to look after the pair's baby boy Kyle. When new temp Lisa (Ali Larter) begins working at Derek's office, he doesn't realise that his whole world is going to be rocked significantly by her arrival. Lisa is something of a temptress and quickly has the men of the office talking about her raunchy looks. All apart from Derek, he's very much in love with his wife and wouldn't do anything to sabotage that. Lisa however isn't ...  Read the complete review