The Roommate (2011)

Absolutely the worst movie.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

A real stinker! Worthless, pointless, useless, horrid. No redeeming features, acting awful, plot stupid, drags on and on, no highlights, just a downright damn waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... waste of time... RUN FROM THIS ONE !!

I did like this movie... back in 1992, when it was called "Single White Female". As for the blatant rip-off called "The Roommate"... urgh, one word: unoriginal. One more word: boring. Oh, and one more: predictable.When you watch the original "Single White Female", you feel that this is something that could really happen to someone in real life. The original was suspenseful and realistic. When you watch *this* (The Roommate)... well, I'm willing to bet anything that a story like this has never, and would never, happened in real life. It's just not believable. And there's zero suspense.They just took the excellent "Single White Female" (a suspenseful thriller) and made a dumbed-down PG version for kids in their early teens of it. That's all there is to it.If you want to see a real female-stalks-female story, watch "Single White Female". Or even the sequel - "Single White Female 2: The Psycho". If you've seen it/them already, don't bother watching "The Roommate", as it's nothing more than a rip-off of the above two titles, created for retards (or very young kids). If you're not one, you, most certainly, won't be impressed.Oh, and by the way, the acting was atrocious.Whoever produced the script for this movie, should just retire. It was pathetic. Man, it is blatantly obvious that s/he ripped-off "Single White Female", but what kind of idiot can't even *copy* someone else's work properly? They copied the unimportant elements, but left the important ones out. Jeez, what a moron.In the original movie ("Single White Female"), the stalker takes her obsession further by copying the lead's physical appearance, also with an agenda to frame her. But in The Roommate this part is replaced with... Oh, please! A tattoo of someone else's dead sister's name? She was supposed to be a dangerous, cunning, smart sociopath, not a clinically retarded looney.Oh, and I saw someone mention that the only reason to watch this are the "hot" lead actresses. Right. Well, first of all, they aren't actresses. They are pathetic amateurs. And... a butt-chin and a plain Jane? "Hot" indeed! In my humble opinion, this movie was not necessary at all. A waste of time and money.

The Roommate, I had started watching this a year ago but turned it off soon after seeing the cat die, and I wish I didn't try to watch it again. This is a truly painful film to view. It has a decent cast lead by the talented (Leighton Meester) but has very flat characters and uses them once and never again such as Alyson Michalka's character, Tracy who we see for the first 40-50 minutes, which is truly upsetting being that we really don't know what happens to her. And this film could have been more scary, way more scary than it is, and it shoulda had more deaths leading up to the final, which was very disappointing. The acting was O.K. but nothing over the average, and the special effects, cheesy as heck. The film doesn't really use the source material and the main idea to it's best use. It all goes to waste. Nothing to really recommend here. D-

This film is about a young college student who has a seemingly nice roommate. Things turn for the worse when the roommate gets infatuated with her."The Roommate" is a thriller about a disturbed girl. Although the roommate seems like a nice person, there is more to her than on the surface. The plot is fairly intense and engaging, with scenes that kept me on edge. However, it would have been nice if the film explained what exactly is wrong with the roommate (the film's explanation does not explain her behaviour). I don't understand the significance of the tattoo either. The ending climax is good, but the very final pivotal moment ends rather disappointingly, as the scenario regarding the knife is too improbable to happen.Overall, "The Roommate" is an adequate thriller.