A Trusted Man (2011)

There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

This movie is just as bad as a movie I saw with Bianca Lawson in House of Secrets neither man wanted to see their mates move on. A trusted man is badly written and badly acted. a trusted man never should have been written, the script is so bad it should have written, bad acting job, bad acting cast. The only good actress was Charisma Carpenter and the lines were so terrible it wasn't funny. I shut the movie off after an hour and twenty minutes into the movie, I caught the last 5 minutes of it who wouldn't figure out that her ex boyfriend was working on making her life miserable. Charisma should of broken off the relationship with Tom long before her promotion but he should have understood her job and understood her.

Obsession or A Trusted Man is not completely irredeemable. It is not too bad to look at, and Charisma Carptenter, Gemma Martini and Nicholas Lea's performances are decent. But it is a largely bad and forgettable movie. While the actors do what they can, they don't have much to work with. Their characters are underdeveloped clichés and I found myself more annoyed with rather than able to identify with them. The dialogue flows awkwardly from one line to the next, and some of those lines are either cheesy and ones that we've heard to exhaustion. The pacing is lifeless and meandering, and unfortunately it never recovers, and while the direction does nothing to hurt how the film looks there is nothing that holds any kind of distinction or even life here. But what fared worst for Obsession was the story. It is one of those stories that you have seen so many times before, and done in such a draggy and non-suspenseful fashion, that you know exactly what's going to happen to each other and how the movie was going to end. Nothing makes sense either, there's far too many senseless parts here to really pick out the biggest offender in this regard, but Sebastian not calling the cops on the way to the warehouse, the cop knowing about the warehouse without having been there and Sonia not finding it peculiar how he came out in the middle of nowhere are certainly at the top of the list.All in all, forgettable, predictable and senseless movie compensated by some decent acting and that it didn't look cheap. 3/10 Bethany Cox

Sonia seems to have trouble with male relationships in this 2011 film.When she accepts a promotion in another city, this ticks off her boyfriend, the latter happening to be a New York City police officer. This sets off a chain of a series of events which is absolutely shocking.Her rejected boyfriend will go to any lengths to make sure that if he can't have Sonia, no one else will and that includes the psychiatrist who told her to move on with her life.The rest of the film is devoted to how the police officer frames her new lover with the murder of the therapist. Problem here is that the police realize rather too quickly in the film that the perceived guilty guy isn't.

This movie underscores a potential pitfall of dating a police officer. Sonia (Charisma Carpenter) accepts a new position in her company that requires her to move from New York to Boston. Her boyfriend, Tom (Dylan Neal), a police officer, does not want her to move, but Sonia moves anyway.While in Boston, Sonia meets a handsome art gallery owner (I think his name is Sebastian, played by Nicholas Lea), and she sees him as a possible romantic interest. But Tom is not having any of this, and what Tom wants, Tom gets. I'll leave it at that.None of my review reveals any crucial plot elements, as all of this is evident to the viewer from the start of the movie. Charisma Carpenter dutifully plays the heroine/victim, and Dylan Neal easily fits the mold of the jealous, controlling, crazy boyfriend. The scenes with Charisma Carpenter and Gemma Martini (the actress who plays her therapist in the film) are very good and are mostly believable. Worth watching if you like these types of movies. This premiered on LMN last night. If you like a movie with this type of theme, you might also want to check out Tall, Dark And Deadly (1995).