The Perfect Guy.
The Perfect Guy is a 2015 thriller directed by David M. Rosenthal (A Single Shot) and stars Sanaa Lathan (The Best Man Holiday), Michael Ealy (The Following) and Morris Chestnut (The Best Man Holiday). The Perfect Guy is essentially a movie about stalking and takes off after the break up of Lathan and Ealy's characters.
Where this film succeeds lies in Michael Ealy, he does a great job in this role and as shown in The Following has the creepy side of him on full display here. It also shows glimpses of a deeper movie with complex characters but unfortunately doesn't capitalize on the opportunities.
Where this film fails is in its characters, they're cardboard cut outs, not one is complex or very interesting. The story itself also goes exactly how you'd expect it to go with not much deviation from your standard obsessed lover story.
The Perfect Guy is fine, for all of my complaints about it I still enjoyed watching it. The performances are good, Michael Ealy is a standout. It showed a few flashes of being a deeper movie but never cashes in on the opportunity and therefore suffers a bit. What could be interesting is a spinoff (I know, spinoffs are 99% trash but this could work) based around Michael Ealy's character because as you find out later in the film, there is some information that you could go much more in depth with in his own film.
Overall: Decent film, I'd watch it again if it was on TV and I enjoyed it despite some flaws.
Rating: 3/5, I won't be adding this to my blu-ray collection but at the same time I'm glad I saw it and it wasn't a waste of time or money.
