I saw
THIS TRAILER recently for
Beyonce's latest movie,
Obsessed. The movie, which is released April 16, is a weak update of
Fatal Attraction, with
Beyonce playing the devoted housewife,
Idris Elba (
The Wire) as the suspect husband and Ali
Larter (
Heroes) as the crazed stalker vixen. We have no plans to watch this movie. If it had any shot of being remotely entertaining in that cheap thrill, guilty
pleasure kind of way that
Halle Berry's
Perfect Stranger satisfied, the director's erased that possibility when they cast
Beyonce as the housewife.
This is
Beyonce's eighth movie. And while she was able to show some fortitude as an actor in
Cadillac Records, she's overall quite bland on the big screen. The ferocious entertainer that you see in her music videos or her stage performances is generally dwarfed by the talent that shares the screen with her in film. In short, she can't act. when you place her with actors who have even minor chops -- let's say Ali
Larter, for example -- the outcome is quite painful to watch.
So why does she do it? I doubt she has some
innate desire within her to express herself artistically through acting. Nothing about her
Dreamgirls performance suggested this to be the case, and that was her biggest role to date. And even though she pulled off that one dramatic scene in
Cadillac Records, she was essentially asleep emotionally through the rest of the film.
So why the hell does she insist on embarrassing herself in this way? The answer is quite simple. If you can pull $4 million for simply memorizing lines and walking through a production, why not.
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