An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from this movie but, since I have a weak spot for Sanaa Lathan and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. First of all, wasn’t this super lame title like a massive spoiler? At least, Sanaa Lathan really looked stunning here and I actually liked how her character got swept away in some cute romantic relationship with some seemingly decent guy. That was easily the best part of this movie. However, again with this title, it was obviously not going to last and pretty quickly it became another generic and really tedious stalker thriller. Unsurprisingly, the stalker guy was played by Michael Ealy who kept showing up in such cheap thrillers (see also ‘Fatale’ or ‘The Intruder’). To his defence, I think he was not helped by how poorly developed his character was here. Indeed, it didn’t make much sense how completely different Carter was when he met Leah and who he suddenly became after beating up this guy at this gas station. Of course, you could argue that he was some bipolar psychopath but, as far as I was concerned, it was actually some really poor writing. At least, it was rather surprising that she would dump him right away as, usually with movies dealing with domestic violence, they drag this moment forever. It also displayed that developing a serious romantic relationship takes time and that you can really test how strong your relationship is not when you are having a good time but when you are facing some difficult stressful situations together. But this was me thinking about relationships in general while watching this movie, it had nothing to do with what this movie actually delivered. Indeed, instead, they gave us the usual boring stalking shenanigans until the main character decided to deliver justice herself because killing off the ‘bad guy’ is basically the only way such US thriller can possibly end. By the way, it was rather hilarious that the main character would change right away her phone numbers but didn’t think about changing her locks as well or, at least, remove the freaking ‘hidden’ key sitting right outside her home. Anyway, even though Sanaa Lathan is such a lovely actress, I should probably stop wasting my time with such lame cheap thrillers, that’s pretty obvious.