CRITIC WATCH: OBSESSED

Obsessed is a new release in the box office that is advertised to be a major thriller movie. Staring Beyoncé Knowles, the film looks to attract a younger audience to see this film about a young couple who has become victim to an obsessive stalker. Unfortunately, the critics aren’t a fan of this idea.
---John Anderson of variety was not at all impressed with this film. He claims the film is a poor attempt at a female-domestic thriller, and lacks and kind of exciting surprised. He also goes on to describe how the story has a lot of lose ends and no clear cut explanation, which doesn’t work well for the audience. Anderson gave the film a 50 out of a 100 rating.
---Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly also had a very average reaction to the film. He claims the movie has “little plausibility”, which really hurts the story. He did however describe the performers as “vivid” and said the movie has entertaining moments. Over all though, he also gave the film 50 out of 100 rating.
---Joe Numaier of the New York Daily news had a pretty negative response to the film. He claims the movie seemed to have been made simply to get a famous singer into a role where she can get into a “cat fight” with another attractive actress to gain cheap attention from the audience. He gives the movie a 25 out of 100 rating.
---Stephen Holden of the New York Times had a more interesting interpretation of the film. He believes the main characters were meant to resemble OJ and Nicole Brown Simpson. He calls this a “distasteful attempt of cheap exploitation”. He gives the film only a 10 out of 100 rating.
---Peter Travers of Rolling Stone had the most negative review. He thinks the movie is just full of cheap clichés and bad acting that really fail to make the movie anything worth watching. He gives the movie a 0 out of 100 rating.
---As can be seen, Obsessed hasn’t been received very well at all from the critics. It will still make money, but is not anything to get excited about.