Ms. Amused

I honestly can’t remember why I added this to my online rental queue but it came today and I decided to pop it in. The roommate had already seen it and her verdict was… “ok”.

So I sit down to watch while messing around on my laptop and right away I’m put off cause the story isn’t flowing naturally. If you’ve read the synopsis of the movie, you already know that Susan Sarandon’s character, Sophie, is going to be very paranoid in the movie and the movie really starts just after the point in the story where she starts to notice that not everything is right.

Sometimes I’m just not in a proper mindset to watch movies like these and I found myself reacting badly to the super paranoia and hopeless feelings that Sophie was going through as she was starting to wonder if she was just going crazy.

And if you’ve seen Sleeping With the Enemy and/or Single White Female… this movie was falling somewhere in between there.

And then BAM!!

It got good as the story took a hard left and finally entered the realm of originality. I just wish the first hour wasn’t so boring and trite.

What is Irresistable about? It’s about a woman dealing with the recent lost of her mother. She’s an illustrator of children’s books yet the death called forth old demons from her past. Just dealing with that on top of her job commitments and being a mother and wife is barely all she can handle when she starts to notice things. Odd events that lead her to believe that she’s being stalked by Mara, her husband’s pretty, young co-worker. Sophie starts to think that Mara is actually trying to replace her. But of course, no one believes her and it all goes downhill from there.

Susan was very good at the role but haven’t we seen her in similiar kinds of roles before? I’m a fan of her work which is the only thing that kept me from turning off the movie. I’ve not known her to do a movie that was completely worthless to me yet. And she has not failed me yet!

And Sam Neill was just non essential. He played the absent husband who doesn’t really get what’s going on with his wife nor is he really interested in knowing.

Emily Blunt was an interesting new face to me. She did very well as Mara, the woman who Sophie is getting paranoid about. I’ll definitely keep an eye out for her in the future. I see from the IMDB that she’s in The Devil Wears Prada which I still haven’t seen.

I can definitely agree with the roommate’s assessment of just “ok” because while some interesting things were done in this movie, it shouldn’t have been such a chore to get to those parts.

Official verdict: mildly amused. If you’re a fan of Susan like me, go for it. If you like movies like Single White Female, go for it. Otherwise, don’t strain yourself reaching for the dvd on the shelf.