The Roommate (2011)

I went into this movie with the intention of seeing a crappy, cheesey, slasher movie. So I KNEW that this was going to be bad but I could never imagine how painful it would be.

Title: The Roommate

Director: Christian A. Christiansen

Starring: Minka Kelly, Leighton Meester and Cam Gigandet

Rated: PG-13

Released: 2011

Rating: 1/5

Basic Plot: Sara Matthews (Minka Kelly) gets Rebecca (Leighton Meester) as a roommate. Rebecca's initial kind demeanor pulls back to reveal a psycho. (Yes, my Basic Plot is way more exciting than the actual movie)

Filler
Now sometimes filler can be a good thing. It can include some funny scenes. But that's just it, it's supposed to be filler. Not the entire movie. The majority of this movie moves slower than 2001: A Space Odyssey in a coma. I expected a movie full of cheap thrills. What I didn't expect was such a boring and filler filled movie.

One Death Moved Me
That death was Cuddles, the kitten that Sara rescues. Cuddles was so adorable I just knew that he was going to die. When he died (in a dryer, his death was not shown but you saw him being put in) it was so sad. What does it say when your movie's only good death scene is the death scene involving a character with no dialogue or development.

Got to Love Those Lesbians
There is a brief lesbian scene. Now before you go flocking to the theaters for that one piece, it is only a brief kissing scene. It is so brief and not erotic (I had a guy's opinion for that) that it doesn't really count. They had to try to throw that in and failed.

Sex Scene
When the sex scene came up I was glad. Because you can't mess up a sex scene. All I wanted was two people doing each other. What I got was a scene so disturbing that it wasn't erotic in the least bit. For one thing, you couldn't really see them getting it on in that much detail. For another thing, this scene was juxtaposed with Rebecca having phone sex with Sara's ex-boyfriend Jason (who does not realize it is not Sara he's having phone sex with) who is looking at the picture of Sara and her dead sister.

Low Body Count
I was expecting a decent body count. But all I got were two deaths (and that's counting Cuddles). Remember the filler I mentioned earlier? If there was less filler there could've probably been a better body count.

When Strange Things Happen...
Over the course of the movie Cuddles dies, Sara's pervy teacher is apprehended, Sara's friend Irene goes silent, and Sara's party friend stops talking to Sara. Through all of this Sara does not think something is up with Rebecca. Especially when things point to her roommate. It takes her forever to find out about Rebecca and, even then, Sara does not contact the police. Heck, doesn't even contact her RA.

Wikipedia
Listen, I know that Wikipedia can be used when trying to find out about something. No problem with that. But when you have your characters doing serious research in a movie, it's not a good idea to show them looking at Wikipedia for information. I could not take their research that seriously when it was shown that's where they were looking.


Final Thoughts
This was a horrible, godawful movie. Was it a movie you could at least laugh at? Yes, but you will still feel like your brain is trying to escape. In short, wait for a rental AT MOST. It does have good laughs to be had, but it is still a painfully boring movie to watch. It's not the worst movie I have watched and the only reason it gets a 1/5 is because there were a few good scenes. But they were very few and inbetween.