Simply Perfect

Best movie of this year hands down!

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I find Minka Kelly and Leighton Meester extremely gorgeous!! Does anybody else agree?But I do think the movie could have been a little better, longer.The Roommate can't be taken seriously.For all Meester's genuine efforts, it's basically moronic games with the mentally ill. But it also misses the opportunity to go for broke, into a zone of full-tilt trash that might at least have been some fun.There are some interestingly nasty moments and some chills, but it's predictable and derivative.

If you've seen Single White Female, then you've seen this movie. Or just about any thriller for that matter. This will not make you look forward to starting college! A lady is about to start college, and her new roommate seems nice but then starts showing signs of obsession, overprotectiveness, nd jealousy. She soon learns why.This offers nothing new in the originality department, but you might like it if you like thrillers and the stars. I love the scene where the bad roommate sets up the fashion design professor-that was well done. There were also some suspenseful scenes and good college scenes, but you can see everything coming from a mile away. The cast does work well together-I will give them that.** out of ****

The college student Sara Matthews (Minka Kelly) travels from Des Moines, Iowa, to Los Angeles to study fashion design. She befriends Tracy Morgan (Aly Michalka) that invites her to a party, where she meets Stephen (Cam Gigandet) and dates him. When Sara returns to her room, she meets her roommate Rebecca Evans (Leighton Meester) and they become friends. Rebecca is a wealthy teenager that becomes obsessed with Sara and soon Tracy notes that something is wrong with Rebecca. But Rebecca threatens Tracy that moves to another house. Rebecca gets rid of anyone that stays between Sara and her, but when Sara finally observes her behavior, she is also threatened by the schizophrenic roommate. "The Roommate" is an unoriginal thriller of obsession with a storyline that is a rip-off "Single White Female". This teen version has two sexy lead actresses, Minka Kelly and Leighton Meester, and may entertain viewers that are not choosy. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): "Colega de Quarto" ("Roommate")

The Roommate, I had started watching this a year ago but turned it off soon after seeing the cat die, and I wish I didn't try to watch it again. This is a truly painful film to view. It has a decent cast lead by the talented (Leighton Meester) but has very flat characters and uses them once and never again such as Alyson Michalka's character, Tracy who we see for the first 40-50 minutes, which is truly upsetting being that we really don't know what happens to her. And this film could have been more scary, way more scary than it is, and it shoulda had more deaths leading up to the final, which was very disappointing. The acting was O.K. but nothing over the average, and the special effects, cheesy as heck. The film doesn't really use the source material and the main idea to it's best use. It all goes to waste. Nothing to really recommend here. D-