The plot of the movie, to quote a much better screenwriter than Obsessed's David Loughery, * is "just a rehash of something that wasn't very good to begin with." We've got Derek Charles (Elba), see, who is happily married to his former secretary Sharon (Knowles), with a big house in the Los Angeles suburbs and a little toddler child who's just cuter than a barrel of buttons, and a swell job as the executive vice president of an investment brokerage. It's kind of an "any port in a storm" situation, but a good actor who isn't trying very hard is still miles better than a crummy actor who also isn't trying very hard. But he's sharing the screen mostly with Beyoncé Knowles, irrevocably entrenched in the choice to play her character at all times, no matter what the context, as a sassy black lady, and Ali Larter, mugging like a hacky vaudevillian. I should immediately qualify that: Elba decidedly does not bring his A-game to this project (his A-game being immediately familiar to anyone who witnessed his tremendous performance as Stringer Bell in HBO's The Wire, among other fine roles). There is one good reason to see the lifeless new thriller Obsessed, and his name is Idris Elba.
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