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Wow this movie is bad. The writing is terrible and the acting is not much better than terrible. If you took any kid in school sat them down and told them to write a scary horror movie that is set on a university/college campus this is pretty much what they would come up with exactly. It is very predictable and you can see the attacks coming a mile away. Basically without ruining any of it I can say this is a girl who is obviously stuck with a roommate in college who she does not know but the chick turns out to be completely insane and tries to take over and keeps attacking and scaring her to death, almost literally to death. The movie is so stupid you will laugh at different places but it is not meant to be at all funny so this is just a terrible movie.

Apart from the fact that the plot is predictable and derivative, the main issue with the movie is the one-dimensionality of the characters. The movie had the opportunity to add depth and complexity to characters by exploring the backstories of the characters (like Rebecca's mental illness). Instead, they decided to leave all their characters undeveloped, with the protagonist (Sarah) being the most boring and superficial of them all.

This movie sends an irresponsible and misguided message.

Literally the only explanation for Rebecca's obsessive, unhinged, AND murderous (!) behavior happens when her roommate Sara discovers a full bottle of meds for (gasp!) schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. This movie paints a real ugly picture for people who suffer from those disorders.

Rebecca and Sara are roommates in college, Rebecca creates an unhealthy obsession with Sara, wants to become her dead sister, and kill everyone who wronged her (or she just doesn't like). The Roommate is categorized as a "thriller," which I agree with. It's incredibly tame, rated PG-13, and simply doesn't bear many qualities a horror movie does. I'm afraid I'm nowhere near the demographic who the filmmakers want to see this movie. On the other hand, it's simply a poor, ill-conceived film.

Who is the audience for this? I'm fairly certain the target is teenage girls. The movie is very, very girl-centric, catty, has extremely tame "horror," it has "cute" boys, hell, Billy Zane is Sara's professor (She wants to be a fashion designer AND her favorite movie is Devil Wears Prada!). It don't get much girlier than this.

Also, this soundtrack is packed wall-to-wall with pop and rock songs. I hate these kinds of soundtracks. They are intrusive and lazy. Wait, I LOVE music! Problem is, the music industry ceased producing good music around 2005. This movie is from 2011. So you're saddled with droves of horrible young bands (that might appeal to teenage girls!). The main character dates the drummer in some wretched band. Hey, it's MY review!

... but it just sucks. Don't waste time, I can't find one redeeming quality of this. Horrid.

Things work out awfully well easily and quickly for small-town girl Sara (Minka Kelly) newly landed in Los Angeles. Adjusting to life in your first year of college, meeting friends, and succeeding in class is supposed to be a struggle. Maybe it's only fair that Sara's roommate Rebecca (Leighton Meester) is a psychopath.

The one thing that I liked about "The Roommate" is that it's a horror movie rated PG. That's right, a genre built on blood, guts, gore and cheap thrills now with a kid-friendly rating! It seems wrong but the horror aspects are minimized. The thriller moments are telegraphed well in advance; you know what's going to happen to who and when. So then they don't have to show it to us. Not that that's good for a movie but it is different for a teen-targeted horror movie.

The entire point of "The Roommate" was to get people to watch it and yet there was nothing worth watching. I like Cam Gigandet as much as the next girl, but that's not a character, that's just a love interest. They hired hot actresses just to feign lesbian action, and, well, I think that's all they did to get people to watch it. If Sony Pictures spent less than an hour and a half on the making of this movie, why should we spend that long watching it?

So the whole time I was watching this movie I was trying to figure out which basic b**ch was who... probably not the intention of this movie, but all I could focus on

The story has been done before and done better. Time is better spent watching "Single White Female" 1992

Roommates are crazy.

I wanted to copy and paste the plot to Single White Female and then change the character names to the one from this movie, but that would involve me putting effort into describing this movie. The Roommate is an appallingly bad movie that offends all 5 sense. Your eyes will burn from the terrible visuals on the screen. Your ears will bleed from the laughable dialogue. Your smell will be offended from the crap emitting from this movie. Your sense of touch will be gone because you'll be numb at the end and finally it will leave a bad taste in your mouth.

Right from the start I had a problem. This is more of a small nitpick, things like this never really bother me in films, but here it was an obvious glaring issue. we are introduced to our main character we walks into the campus and sees a woman behind a computer. She tells the woman her name and the woman gives her keys to her room. The woman never asks for student I.D., a driver's license, or kind of identification what so ever. That small insignificant little detail told me from the start that this film was poorly written and was going to get even worse. I was right.

Meester simply isn't crazy enough and her character comes off as laughable. Half the things she does in this movie are inane, even for a crazy person. She tries to become Sarah's best friend, going to great lengths to make Sarah's problems go away. The point of realization for Sarah that her roommate isn't all their, is when she gets the exact same tattoo, of Sarah's dead sister's name.....awkward.

The film is targeted towards young teenage girls, so it's not scary or thrilling what so ever. The so called thrills, come at the very end and it's extremely poorly done. The film has forgettable performances. This was Meester's chance to shine, she fails to do so. I actually feel sorry for this film, had it not be confined by the restraints of the PG-13 rating and actually written with the right target audience in mind, then it could have been a decent thriller. Then again, The Resident with Hiliary Swank had similar ideas and that failed to be suspenseful either.

The Roommate is a pathetic excuse of a movie that doesn't have a shred of originality in it. Skip it like the plague.

I've kinda already reviewed this when I reviewed "Fertile Ground".

Yeah, its a completely different plot and storyline, but what's similar is the main failing - the person we're supposed to be scared of fails to present a significant threat.

This time we're supposed to be concerned by a girl who occasionally exhibits psychotic tendencies by generally assaulting people to please her roommate. Or something along those lines. Problem is these assaults don't get dangerous until long into the movie.

Incidentally, I'm reasonably sure college students don't refrain from reporting people who attacked them after being threatened with further beatings - those threats might work on elementary school kids, but...

Furthermore, the protagonist doesn't find out anything until approximately 2/3 of the movie, thus very little actually happens and without any real threat it feels like the movie takes forever to introduce anything to interest the audience.

Just another movie with a poor portrayal of BDP (Borderline Personality Disorder.) So much so that I don't even think the writers themselves realized that is what they were portraying with Rebecca, but mirroring SWF, Fatal Attraction, etc - that's what it is. Unfortunately the media vilifies and misrepresents BPD to the point where they make people suffering from it "violent" so that they are considered people to fear. Yes, BPD people have a very hard time with dealing with abandonment, be it real or imagined. Yes, they develop intense, unstable relationships in all forms, seeing someone as wonderful and their savior but if scorned, BDP turns those people into "the devil" and the suffering person views the person who has betrayed them (again, real or imagined) as evil.

What is NOT common with BPD, and where film takes it COMPLETELY in the wrong direction, is that people suffering from this disorder are far more likely to hurt THEMSELVES rather than others. BDP comes with a very unstable self image. If they get hurt, they feel like they are worthless, not good enough etc etc - and although they may hate the person who made them feel this way, they will engage in self-harming behaviors; cutting, reckless sex, excessive drinking etc - even suicide or attempted suicide to cope. Rarely do they turn their violence on anyone but themselves, yet in all of these movies with the common thread of obsession and instability (telltale signs of BPD) they always "go psycho" and go on a killing spree or attempt to, and of course, it just eggs society on in their ignorant assumptions about people with BPD which makes the sufferers feel that much more lonely, worthless, and outcast.

Congrats on ripping off SWF I guess and just recycling misinformation. Sigh.

I liked this movie better the first time I watched it. Only then it was called "Single White Female". It's not even worth typing the minimum of ten lines to trash this, so I will just cut and paste until I get ten lines. I liked this movie better the first time I watched it. Only then it was called "Single White Female". It's not even worth typing the minimum of ten lines to trash this, so I will just cut and paste until I get ten lines. I liked this movie better the first time I watched it. Only then it was called "Single White Female". It's not even worth typing the minimum of ten lines to trash this, so I will just cut and paste until I get ten lines.

This is the movie where clichés go to die. A plot with more holes than swiss cheese, I have no idea who wrote this but I hope it was a tax right off. Teenagers in their 20's act like wooden dolls in this snoozefest, Sorority Row is much better and it's funny. Fashion and art are parodies in this flat pumpkin spice flatte of a film. Pingu has better plot lines and character development than this and it's more engaging. Billy Zane, Nina Dobrev and Francis Fisher are in this? I can't quite believe my eyes at the cast here, all that's missing is Tony Todd as the janitor. Whoever green lit this should be fired.