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The Perfect Guy
2015
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The Perfect Guy
Positive Reviews
8
Negative reviews
32
Average Rating
1.9
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3.0
Plenty of well plotted thrillers depend on a similar accumulation of details, but this one is almost all accumulation and almost zero actual thrills.
Av Club
3.0
Lathan wavers deftly between strength and victimhood, and Ealy plays a perfectly smooth creep.But for all its third act nuttiness, The Perfect Guy rea ..
EW
2.5
Nothing nearly so wacky or grotesque goes down in this romantic thriller, but youll wish it would.
Rogerebert
2.0
I had a lot of hope for it, but ultimately it just never delivered the jolt I had expected that it might.
Indie Wire
2.5
While no bunnies wind up being boiled, the rest of this second rate genre effort is a strictly by the books affair.
Variety
3.5
This devilishly entertaining, slickly executed and surprisingly thought provoking film tries much harder than it needed to and is all the better for i ..
We Got This Covered
1.5
It commits a cardinal sin: You are constantly three steps ahead of anything resembling suspense, rendering the whole ordeal a boring checklist of tire ..
Austin Chronicle
1.0
Rather than provide some trashy fun, this one plays it safe, choosing TV movie predictability over anything perverse.
The Guardian
2.0
The B movie riffs are efficiently executed, but the biggest mystery is why this supporting feature should be troubling our cinema screens when its tar ..
The Guardian
2.0
Frustratingly, director David M Rosenthal (A Single Shot) cant quite bring himself to embrace the trashiness of Tyger Williams gloriously generic scre ..
The Guardian
3.1
By the time Leah racks and fires, her pains are at least much deeper and more fully felt.
1.5
The Perfect Guy manages to be both dull and frantic: The story and the performances are geared for maximum portent, but the filmmaking is choppy and h ..
Vulture
2.0
But like everything else in this B movie, it comes too little and too late.
The Hollywood Reporter
1.5
It never tries to be anything more than the sum of its parts, it never rises above its mediocre material to transcend those genre trappings.
4.5
Its a surprisingly original performance in a surprisingly original movie.
Paste Magazine
1.0
Had Leah seen Fatal Attraction or even the more recent Jennifer Lopez clunker The Boy Next Door, she would have picked up on the telltale signs that C ..
2.0
If it lacks in any of these departments, then it will most certainly fail.
The Young Folks
1.5
There was plenty of potential for it to be a mindless, trashy, but never the less entertaining thriller that thrived because it was so formulaic.
Cinema Blend
1.0
Its a lazy, by the numbers bore.It almost jumps through hoops to not be different in any way.
Ny Daily News
1.9
The first hit film of the fall is an utterly generic, totally predictable stalker thriller aimed at an African American audience.
Rogers Movie Nation
2.0
Strives to make an exploitation mess with charged elements, but it can barely sustain interest in itself, missing the fun and snowballing panic this t ..
Blu Ray
2.5
This premise touches on fears of overreaching Internet surveillance, a common anxiety in light of Edward Snowdens revelations.
Chicago Reader
2.0
The Perfect Guy is a lazy retread from the Fatal Attraction department of stalker movies.Sanaa Lathan is Leah, a career woman wooed by the too good to ..
The Times
2.0
The third act is needlessly distendedit doesnt tie up loose ends so much as it double knots ends that had already been tiedand the dialogue is clunky ..
News Review
2.0
The third act is needlessly distendedit doesnt tie up loose ends so much as it double knots ends that had already been tiedand the dialogue is clunky ..
News Review
3.0
This gives Ealy the toughest task, switching from blue eyed charmer to IT savvy psychopath, and he makes a decent fist of it in a movie that offers li ..
Radio Times
1.0
The Perfect Guy could have been a competent, engaging thriller, or at least a showcase for its talented leads; the tragedy comes in how firmly and sol ..
The Wrap
0.5
An enragingly stupid and obvious thriller jammed with dull genre clichs, wild hypocrisy, and just a hint of victim blaming.
2.0
Ultimately, The Perfect Guy manages to deliver a handful of tawdry thrills and remains solidly watchable thanks to its classy cast, but it lacks the a ..
Flim List
1.0
Silly me!.For some reason I assumed that The Perfect Guy was a romantic comedy.
Flickfilosopher
1.0
All of this, unfortunately, adds up to a considerably more boring experience.
The Irish Times
3.0
In 2015, if youre going to make a house and garden chiller, you have to either ace your storytelling, and ratchet tension, or, you have to go well bey ..
Consequence Of Sound
1.0
The actors take the material seriously, but theyre sabotaged by a weak script and an apparent commitment on the part of director David M. Rosenthal to ..
Now Toronto
2.0
A Perfect Guy plays it all too straight and to the point of insipid functionality.
Cine Vue
1.5
All cultural appeal aside, it offers nothing new in the way of thrills or chills.
Film Racket
2.0
On one level, its enjoyable to see a genre flick with ostensibly colour blind casting.
Straight
0.0
Which is a marvel, seeing as it stars such attractive leads.There is a certain joy to be taken from thick headed sex films like The Perfect Guy; somet ..
Crave Online
2.0
A throwback to the 1990s era of Fatal Attraction, glossy but blandly directed stalker thriller The Perfect Guy fails to do anything interesting with i ..
What So
2.5
Its a thriller void of thrills, wasting the time of the cast and the audience.
Bowling Green Daily News
2.0
Synopsis When successful San Francisco lobbyist Leah Vaughn (Sanaa Lathan) breaks up with her commitment shy boyfriend (Morris Chestnut), she thinks s ..
Sky
1.0
I love Sanaa Lathan, except when she has to play dumb. And, boy, does The Perfect Guy need her to be dumb.
Grant Land
2.0
All in all, The Perfect Guy is a cliche loving soap of a thriller that doesnt know how to be; insipid and uncreative, there is very little terror hidi ..
Cairo 360
3.5
Yet despite its faults, it dresses nicely, wears good cologne, and has excellent table manners.
All Movie
1.0
Rosenthals attempts at creating suspense are more laughable than hide behind your seat terrifying and the cliches only make it worse.
Ib Times
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