The movie is quit disappointing and shallow even though it has a story line that keeps you interested. What I want to point out is the hypocrisy in this movie when it comes to expressing violence. When Carter expresses violence towards the men at the gas station he becomes a red flag (very reasonably) for Leah but when Dave expresses violence towards Carter in the restaurant (regardless of being not so intense as Carter's since violence is violence) all he gets is admiration from Leah. How come he does not become a red flag for being violent? Life Lessons: not much to take with the exception perhaps that sometimes you have to take things on your own matter and be brave. But again this is very poorly and superficially presented. Dealing with serious crimes such as stalking, breaking in and murder and getting away with that so easily is just not realistic. Another lesson perhaps is that perfect does not exist and people should not be trusted so easily because they are usually not what they say they are. Character analysis: extremely poor job done in the main character development. We never get to know more about Carter and his reasoning just that he was abandoned and was bipolar. What what else? There a lot of children raised in foster houses that turn out to be very successful and respected members of society, so this alone is not enough to explain his unreasonable behaviour.

While the actors are great, the script is so bad it turns them into B- grade actors. I feel bad for them since I know they can act well. This is like the time Natalie Portman did Star Wars. Shes a great actor but the script was so bad her acting turned wooden. If they made the lines less lame and predictable, this may be just barely watchable.I cringed a lot. But I watched the whole thing hoping it would get better. It doesn't. It's like watching a bad teen novel-turned-movie.I'm embarrassed for this movie.

Based on the trailer, I thought this movie would be absolutely terrible. It's still bad, but not as awful as I thought. Leah has some job working for a senator, and she's been dating Dave for around two years. Leah wants to get married and have a family, but Dave is scarred from his parents' divorce, so he wants to propose when he's ready, and not sooner. Leah and Dave break up because of their differences, and Leah starts dating Carter, and IT expert. Here's where things get ridiculous. Leah just can't resist Carter when he flashes his goofy smile at her. It's supposed to be sexy, but he just looks silly with half his mouth horizontal and the other half vertical. He's charming at first, but goes crazy and beats a man at a gas station he thought was flirting with Leah. The gas station owner claims he called the cops on Carter, but nothing ever happens with that. The beaten man doesn't press charges for some reason. Leah actually gets in the car with Carter instead of waiting for the cops or calling cab or doing anything else. She breaks up with him, and when he begins stalking her, she does the smart thing and changes her numbers. When that doesn't work, she gets a restraining order. The gaping hole in her plan? Her keys. She showed Carter where she hides her spare on their first or second date. That was a dumb decision, yet she doesn't think to move her spare and change her locks? She's supposed to be smart, but she acts really dumb. The cop helping her out isn't bad. Near the end, he advises her how to take care of Carter, but for some reason it's against the law to tell her to get a shotgun for self-defense, so he asks her to join him on his coffee break so he can tell her off duty. She's so dense she doesn't understand he's trying to help her. She finally acts smart when she sets a trap in her home for Carter at the end, but then acts dumb again just standing there with a shotgun threatening to shoot him but not actually following through with it. Of course she loses the shotgun, and of course she kills him in the end. It's all very conventional. Carter is so goofy that he makes the movie accidentally funny. He's so obsessed with Leah that he crawls under her bed to listen to her have sex with Dave, and when he goes into her bathroom, the first thing he does is stick her toothbrush in his mouth. The script is pretty bad, but moments like that make the movie somewhat fun.

Reviewed by: Dare Devil Kid (DDK)Rating: 3.2/5 starsLeah (Sanaa Lathan) has it all: looks, brains, a beautiful modernist home in Los Angeles, a position of importance at a political- consulting firm, and the affections of her handsome boyfriend Dave (Morris Chestnut). But while her life seems perfect on the outside, her relationship has some sadly predictable shortcomings: She wants marriage and kids, and he doesn't. After one too many arguments on this topic, she tearfully breaks up with him; she then embarks on a long period of workaholic mourning, which only ends when a drunken boor corners her at a bar and asks to have a drink with her. No, he's not her new paramour — that would be the astute and handsome Carter (Michael Ealy), who comes to her rescue by posing as her boyfriend and telling the creep to take a hike. Grateful, she accepts Carter's offer of dinner.Leah is smitten by Carter's manners and snake-charmer blue eyes, and before long she's taking him to meet her parents (L. Scott Caldwell and the always welcome Charles S. Dutton). But he seems too good to be true - and just when it seems like everything she's ever dreamed of is coming true, Carter beats a man into a bloody pulp for the crime of merely talking to her. Shaken, she breaks it off with him, only to find that he won't take no for an answer. He soon begins a campaign of harassment, spying, and general creepiness that has Leah fearing for her life. As a result, she seeks an ally in a police detective named Hansen (the also always welcome Holt McCallany).The aforementioned events give Ealy the toughest task, switching from blue-eyed charmer to IT-savvy psychopath, and he makes a decent fist of it in a movie which offers little genuine depth, but moves through its paces watchably enough, borrowing judiciously from the Hitchcock playbook along the way. Lathan makes a likable heroine, even if we ponder the wisdom of her continuing to live alone in a swish glass-walled house and, without making too much of an issue of it, the film hints that the white-dominated corporate environment in which she moves subtly adds to her feelings of isolation and vulnerability."The Perfect Guy" isn't exploring new territory in the "psycho- stalker" subgenre (although it's notably more sensual than most films in this category). While the cast is capable and there are several moments of nail-biting tension, the plot leans too heavily on obvious clichés like the crazy collage of photos in the villain's lair signifying his unhinged mental state, victims standing dumbfounded as the bad guy advances when they should be scrambling for their phone, and the laziest trope of all in American cinema: A gun will solve this.But the end result is elevated by the stylish direction of David M. Rosenthal, who gives this Lifetime-esque movie a higher gloss than it usually receives. The film wouldn't work if audiences didn't believe that Leah's passion for Carter was the real deal, and Rosenthal makes their animal attraction tangible in a scene in which they dance at an underground reggae venue, grinding against each other until they — and the audience — are at a fever pitch, culminating in a wide romp in the basement's dingy, dank washroom. Moody shots of the golden haze hovering over Los Angeles in the morning might not be strictly necessary in a plot-driven feature like this, but when Rosenthal juxtaposes them with hungry coyotes roaming the canyon streets, he reminds us that there are all kinds of unscrupulous animals on the loose in L.A."The Perfect Guy" might be high melodrama, and its conclusion isn't as pleasingly airtight as the ending in a thriller needs to be. Yet despite its faults and superficiality, it's an effective and somewhat engrossing time-killer.