This film had so much potential - a good premise, great actors, a decent budget, but it fails because of the script.The film is not sure what it wants to be - horror? comedy? drama? romance? It tries to do it all and doesn't do any of them well. It fails completely in that regard.The film could've shown how society is becoming more and more isolated, people working jobs in cubicles to go home to their tiny box apartments with their potted plants and their pets, but the film skims through that issue rather than drive it home. Lisa made a comment that she could disappear and no one would know, but it was an off-hand comment that was not explored further. The film could've spent more time exploring this existential crisis rather than have a man arguing with a doll. Show Lisa as a loner too, a sad cat lady. Show Kenneth as someone who becomes more and more lonely as his gamer friends move away in pursuit of jobs/money, leaving his only contact with them is through online gaming. Show how both Kenneth and Lisa get birthday or Christmas calls on their answering machines from their parents. Show them eating lunch alone in their cubicles.Make it sad. Make it depressing, psychological, so that when Kenneth starts arguing with the doll, he has been pushed to the limit and has lost touch with reality rather than he's playing a role-playing game.Make it more psychological. The turning point in the film was when Lisa discovers a photo of the doll wearing her clothes. It's too cheap. Make it something more subtle, such as Kenneth becoming more aggravated as Lisa is a real human being with flaws. She menstruates, she snores, she has to shave her legs, she's not always in the mood for sex, etc. Make her moody, depressive, suicidal even. Make it human vs doll, reality vs fantasy. That's where the turning point should be. Make Kenneth become irritated and irritable to the point where she leaves him.This movie goes for cheap shortcuts rather than build-up and payoff - Lisa learns about the doll, the building super walks into the room and gets killed, etc.Instead of being deep, disturbing, philosophical, existential, psychological and depressing, it ends up being cheesy - cubicle worker buys doll, dates cubicle girl, she learns about doll, things goes bad, he kills cubicle girl (indirectly, but still).I can't recommend it to anyone, but it has the potential for a remake if done right.

Love Object is a truly unique piece of horror. It's an unsettling film about a lonely guy who takes an unnatural liking to a "real doll." It's basically an ultra-realistic blow up doll...and very creepy I might add. But, when Kenneth falls in love with the new girl at work the doll does not take the news so well. I really don't want to go into the plot details here because the movie is kind of a slow burn that only works once (I've went back and watched it again and it's just not as interesting the second time). The ending is still fantastic though. What makes it work so well are the performances of Desmond Harrington and Melissa Sagemiller. Harrington is one brave actor; not at all afraid to just go for it. I can't imagine too many actors tackling this role. And Sagemiller is really putting herself out there as well. Rip Torn and Udo Kier put in some fun character work too. I recommend viewing Love Object at least once to see there are still good movies being made that don't get a wide theatrical release. A word of warning to the director though: people HATE alarm clocks and the sound that they make. I take away some points for the use of alarm clocks.

Fantastic, incredible little movie that slipped in under the radar. I could kick myself for not seeking it out sooner.Things start off simple enough with nerdy technical writer Kenneth being given a large project and a new assistant named Lisa. Kenneth has trouble relating to the flesh and blood Lisa, so he creates a double - a lifelike sex doll named Niki. Niki gives Kenneth the confidence he needs to succeed in real life with work and with Lisa. But when Lisa finds out about Niki, Kenneth's life and mind take a turn for the worse.Dreamy Desmond Harrington is amazing as Kenneth. His transformation from geek to dreamboat to psychopath is seamless and incredibly frightening. Melissa Sagemiller acquits herself nicely as Lisa, and Rip Torn is delightful as the boss. One of my favorites.

When I first saw this movie, I couldn't help but think that this was THE greatest movie I have ever seen. Love Object deserves to have a sequel. Although the movie has a couple of disturbing scenes, that didn't distract me from how this good movie was. Love Object is the perfect movie to watch. I also want to say that once you see this movie for the first time, you can't help but watch it over and over again. I am practically moved by how every actor played their parts in a sense of how well the acted. Once this movie is in your thoughts, you can't help but express how you feel about watching it again. Sometimes you would want to get up out your chair and rush to the video store and buy the movie Love Object.