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The Perfect Guy “Better parts, now.”
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by Daniel Barnes
concept of “the perfect guy” also drags women into nightclub bathrooms to engage in unprotected sex, because it was written and directed by men). Carter While film critics spent last weekend making goo-goo fixates on Leah with a low, loving gaze that can eyes at an M. Night Shyamalan-directed found-footage easily turn sinister, and while that rabid puppy-dog horror movie, David M. Rosenthal’s gangly and rote stare might be the film’s best weapon, Ealy is never thriller The Perfect Guy swooped in to top the domestic allowed to dig beyond Carter’s surface. box office. The Perfect Guy is barely a professional Carter is suave and savvy enough to win over effort, and frequently veers in to the lane of lurid trash, Leah’s friends and wrap her religious mother and but its depiction of white-collar African-Americans is overprotective father (always nice to see you, an extreme rarity in the cinema, and the film serves a Charles S. Dutton!) around his finger, but he also woefully underserved audience. Too bad it’s a total dud. shows a violent side, causing Leah to recoil and Sanaa Lathan (The Best Man films) stars as Leah, break away. This drives Carter crazy, and despite a 36 year-old political lobbyist who worries her protests, he refuses to leave Leah alone, that the clock is ticking on marriage and calling and texting at all hours and motherhood. A black businesswoman following her everywhere. It starts Leah over 30, strong, complex, beautiful, off creepy and grows increasingly is the sort of serious and uncompromising, Leah is invasive and violent, escalating character that you the sort of character that you only see into full Fatal Attraction mode on movie screens in trash like The when Dave comes back into the only see on movie Perfect Guy. It’s no wonder that the picture. screens in trash best black actresses are finding their Rosenthal proves pretty inept like The meatiest roles on the small screen at building suspense, and every these days. attempt at a “thriller moment” falls Perfect Guy. Tyger Williams penned the script, short. The third act is needlessly his first screen credit since writing 1993’s distended—it doesn’t tie up loose ends so Menace II Society, but don’t expect any of that much as it double-knots ends that had already film’s bold, intense style. Instead, Rosenthal (A Single been tied—and the dialogue is clunky beyond belief. Shot) and his cinematographer Peter Simonite aim for (“A lobbyist, eh? I guess you’re well-practiced in the a high-gloss veneer, basically going for a Tyler Perry art of persuasion.”) Lathan’s earnestness is the only drama with less hand-of-God sermonizing, and it mostly thing that holds the film together—she’s so good feels like they’re trying to replicate the work of more while being given so little to work with, it’s a crime accomplished genre filmmakers. that she isn’t headlining better films than this one. Ω When her live-in boyfriend Dave (Morris Chestnut) refuses to propose, Leah breaks off their relationship and recommits to her career. Enter Carter (Michael Ealy), a handsome and seemingly “perfect” cocktail of charm, Poor Fair Good Very excellent strength, chivalry, sensitivity and success (this film’s
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