Runtime:
100 minutes
Release
Date: September 11, 2015
Rating:
PG-13
Director:
David M. Rosenthal
Leah is
the type of classic movie character that I hate. Though she has a
good job and a good life with her boyfriend of two years Dave, all
she can think about is getting married and having babies. After a
particular fight, she breaks up with him in the hopes of giving him
time to think things over and realize that he wants to marry her and
have lots of babies.
While
sitting at the bar and waiting for a friend who cancels at the last
minute, she meets an irritating businessman who keeps hitting on her.
Enter Carter, an attractive man she met in passing at the coffee shop
while still with Dave. Carter saves her from a bad situation and
seemingly becomes the perfect man overnight. He treats her with
respect, loves her cat, loves being around her friends and family,
and even wants to make plans with her for the future.
It
doesn't take long before he drops the L-bomb and wins over her
father, making everyone think he is the perfect guy. That all changes
when she sees his dark side. After a man keeps talking to her outside
his parked car, Carter suddenly attacks and beats the man senseless.
He apologizes and promises that he would never hurt her, but she's
had enough and end things. That leads to Carter slowly stalking her,
stealing her cat, and basically making her life a living hell while
the police do little to stop him.
If you
read my plot synopsis of The Perfect Guy and wondered why it sounded
familiar, it's because it is literally the same plot of 900 made for
television movies released in the 1980s and 1990s. When it ended, I
looked at my roommate and said, “didn't we see this movie before,”
which prompted him to say it was like a straight up bad Lifetime
movie. It literally made no sense why this actually played in
theaters and didn't wind up on television instead.
Everything
about the movie is a total cliché. Leah is a busy working girl who
never quite found the time to settle down and have a family, and Dave
is the working guy who isn't quite ready to settle down with her.
When she started whining about being 36 and still not being a wife
and mother, I seriously wanted to slap her. Does that mean that she
expects Dave to marry her and immediately knock her up? She was
literally two seconds away from “forgetting” her birth control
pills or poking holes in his condoms.
The only
redeeming feature is Michael Ealy. I've seen him in a few films, most
recently the remake of About Last Night, and I thought he was the
standout. He's the perfect combination of sexy and suave in the
beginning and dark and creepy later. You actually get why someone
would fall in love with him so quickly. He even had a few moments
that left me feeling a little squeamish, including when he licked her
wineglass to get her lipstick off it and when he literally sucked on
her toothbrush. Add to that a scene where he creepily holds her cat
while remotely viewing her computer, and it's clear why he's the
standout.
The
Perfect Guy isn't a horrible movie, but it's one we've all seen many,
many, many times before. It sadly lacked all the cheesy fun of a made
for Lifetime movie too...
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