The Perfect Guy Movie Review

 The Perfect Guy has probably been the most talked about movie all week. I had the pleasure of seeing it yesterday and here’s my take on it.

The movie stars Sanaa Lathan as Leah Vaughn Michael Ealy as Carter Duncan and Morris Chestnut as David King. While the acting is good the movie felt a bit stale to me since I’ve technically seen the same movie earlier this year. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, watch The Boy Next Door. This movie is basically the male version of Fatal Attraction.

Basically Leah was dating David for a while and when it seemed like David wasn’t ready for marriage she breaks up with him. A short while later she meets Carter and she’s swooned by him. Basically he literally seems like the perfect guy to her, her friends like him,  and her parents like him. Everything seemed normal till he snapped  and beat up a guy at a gas station. After that Leah gets scared and dumps him and the craziness begins.

See what I mean? A male Fatal Attraction movie. I never understood why Hollywood tries to remake certain suspense films and try to rename it something else to make it seem like it’s different. The movie was pretty much predictable. You never had to guess and you can pretty much predict the fate of all of the characters involved.

But like I said while the plot was stale the acting was good. I enjoyed it more than The Boy Next Door at least. On a grading scale from A to F, I give it a D+ and I say D+ since the acting pretty much saved it from getting an F.