johanna-ewards
I read this description of the movie:"After a painful breakup, successful lobbyist Leah Vaughn (Sanaa Lathan) jumps into a passionate relationship with a charming stranger (Michael Ealy). When her ex-boyfriend (Morris Chestnut) resurfaces in her life she has to figure out who she should trust and who she should fear." And after reading that I thought that this would be a thrilling movie in my taste. But even though I love Sanaa Lathans acting and the main plot this was nothing other than a big disappointment. "She has to figure out who she should trust and who she should fear". Absolutely not. Leah and the audience knows from the very first second who's the villain and who's not in this movie. That's what's make it such a boring and predictable movie. It was the typical "get the neighbor that suspect that something is wrong to be quiet so let's push her down the stairs", and "let's destroy the wheels of the car and make it look like an accident" and so on. Nothing you haven't seen before in these kind of movies.So predictable movie. No plot twist what so ever. Don't think it's worth your time. Can strongly recommend to watch Disturbia and Boy next Door instead that has plots similar to this one but are MUCH more thrilling and unpredictable.
Robyn
How on earth this has got any good reviews is beyond me it was utter trash! The music that was on constantly sounded like it was from a bad 70s horror film!! I was constantly waiting for some axe murderer in a mask to show up as that's what the music made it sound like. The acting was awful and the writing terrible some of the cheesy lines the main characters were spouting off seriously was making me cringe, and I like cheesy movies! Ican't comment on the ending as I turned it off before the end, and I NEVER do that I always watch things to the end even if I don't like the film as I always want to know how it ends but I couldn't bring myself to watch any more as it was so boring so cringe and I couldn't take any more, it was that bad! Don't waste your time watching this.
LiveLoveLead
This movie reminded me of a typical "Lifetime Movie." OK to kill some time on a Sunday afternoon, but not something I'd pay to see. One reviewer stated that a former professor of his told the class that every movie idea has been done at least once or twice before... well this story line has been done a hundred times before and it has definitely been done better...and worse. It wasn't horrible, but it was just yet another version of girl meets handsome, seemingly perfect guy, who turns out to be a psycho stalker. For me, the scenes were totally predictable and the acting is just average. As is usually the case in these movies, the girl makes stupid choices even though she knows the guy is stalking her, but it does have a good ending. I would put this movie on the same level as Obsessed & The Boy Next Door. Better stalker movies in my Humble Opinion: Fatal Attraction, Enough & Sleeping with the Enemy. 6/2016
Desertman84
The Perfect Guy is a thriller about a female lobbyist who starts a relationship with stranger who seems to have all the perfect qualities that a woman is looking for after she finds a lot of unhappiness with her present relationship. Sanaa Lathan,Michael Ealy and Morris Chestnut stars in this film whose screenplay is written by Tyger Williams and whose direction is held by David M. Rosenthal.Leah Vaughn,a successful lobbyist, has been displeased by her boyfriend,Dave King once again.She is frustrated by the fact that Dave does not want to commit to her fully in relationship through marriage and start a family.She then decides to break up with him. After two months,she meets a charming man who is working in an Information Technology company in Carter Duncan.They become close and start a relationship after Leah seem to find her the so-called "the perfect guy".But as the relationship progresses,Leah discovers some shocking violent qualities that Carter has in the gas station which led her to break up the relationship. Then Dave resurfaces in Leah's life and they decide to reunite. But things become scary as Carter became a threat to their peaceful life and personal space.No question that this movie earned a lot in the box office despite the fact that it was trashed by a lot of critics.Although it was evidently a B-movie in terms of story and performances,it managed to deliver efficiently.I know that was far from original,high on melodrama and it was definitely predictable especially at the point when Carter started haunting Leah and Dave,I felt that it tried its best being what it is.A viewer should not expect a classic from it like The Godfather nor The Taxi Driver.Evidently,it was influenced by Fatal Attraction with only the man playing a villain instead of a woman.But for what it is,I think that it was a pretty good.A B-movie nevertheless if only we are to categorize it accordingly.The performances,the costumes and the pacing of the story made it a pretty good B-movie.