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Friday, February 25, 2011

Review of film: "THE ROOMMATE"

2011, 02-25:

Review of film:  THE ROOMMATE      

    


            Be CAREFUL who you allow to enter your Life!…  


  Going off to college can be a “traumatic” time…  But, hopefully, it’s not always THIS distressing…

    Sara Matthews (MINKA KELLY) has gone to college in the Los Angeles area, to study clothes designing.  Supposedly, she’s a “naïve” middle-class girl from Des Moines, Iowa--  yet she brings with a bunch of “designer” type clothes she wears, & appears & acts far more “sophisticated” than “inexperienced” in the Big Avocado…

  Soon, Minka “bats her eyes” at lustful Professor  Roberts (BILLY DANE), & seductively gets him to immediately “open-up” his Designing class to her attendance…

  In her dorm, she quickly makes friends with”wild child” Tracy Morgan (ALYSON MICHALKA), & after first weakly “declining”, she soon eagerly accepts to go off with her to a FRAT “kegger” party...




...  There, she meets enticing frat guy Stephen (CAM GIGANDET) who plays drums in the House band & promptly “hits” on her (which she’s very “open” to)…




  After she gets back to her own dorm room, she soon meets her new roommate Rebecca (LEIGHTON MEESTER), who comes across as “mousy” & purportedly from a “poorer” background since she’s stunned by Minka’s “designer” duds & all.  Leighton immediately seems fairly “SHY” --  or is that “strange”?! --  in the “secretive” & reticent ways she tends to act…

  But quickly --  “TOO” quickly! --  Leighton “latches on” to Alyson & wants to always know where she is & what she’s “DOING” in her life…  She starts wearing items that belong to Minka (including her dead sister Emily’s necklace) , works to take PHOTOS of the two of them together, etc…




  Minka keeps getting unwanted calls from her ex-boyfriend Jason (MATT LANTER)-- & Leighton furtively “inserts” herself into that relationship (surreptitiously pretending to be Minka)…

  Leighton also dislikes that Minka has an old friend named Irene (DANNEEL HARRIS) who’s already a “big-shot” in the world of designing.  As time goes on, Leighton acts very “STRANGELY towards Danneel--  just as she has to OTHER people Minka knows (such as Alyson, Cam, Billy, & others)…

  Minka never seems to fully “catch-on” to how people she knows are “CREEPED-OUT” by Leighton & her increasingly weird actions… 

  Even when supposedly “poor” Leighton turns out to have an extremely expensive car & takes her to visit her RICH parents (who are “solicitous” of her), Minka is “OBLIVIOUS” to it all, & unaware of how Leighton is clearly OBSESSED with her…  (The old “stupid-pills” plotting excuse I’ve spoken of before)…

...  Will Leighton continue her threatening actions towards people Minka knows?...  Will Minka ever “WAKE-UP” to the fact that  Leighton is “not quite RIGHT”, & will it be in “time” to avert onrushing problems that have arisen?...

  In case you couldn’t tell, this is a “HORROR” movie--  although not quite a “slasher” flick” in that violent actions are usually  “indicated” but not directly SHOWN (which is a “plus” in my book)…  Most of the actors do a decent, believable job in their roles (especially Leighton & Cam who’s appropriately “charming” but decent)…

  To me, the big exception in that is MINKA.  I don’t know if it’s her acting or how her role is “written” (or a combination of the two)--  but I’m sorry to say I found her HARD to believe:  she comes across (perhaps because she’s almost “overly” pretty?) as very “SUPERFICIAL”, doesn’t seem at all “naïve” (& thus somewhat PHONY in how she comes “across”), & just plain “H-M-D” --  Horror Movie DUMB…

  So, because of the genre & how it’s “presented” (with a hard-to-believe main character), I’m only rating this film as 6 out of 10 stars…  (I think “word-of-mouth” had gotten OUT about the film, because my friend & I were the only 2 people in the whole theater watching it in the middle afternoon on a weekday)…


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