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.

More went into this than the average reviewer here cares to think about. Good ingredients but the cake... well, it doesn't exactly fall flat, this movie is watchable, don't be put off by the negativity. But there are some seriously corny stupid scenes that should have been reworked.(1) Matt Lanter's death scene. Looks like a fake orgasm. Jeez, a guy giving a fake orgasm scene! (2) Leighton Meester's Rebecca is not dead that first time round, we all knew that, it is such a tawdry wasteful scene, the epitome of crass corniness. The creepy 'second death' should have been the only bit used.Certainly those that I have mentioned are very valid cases, but even if improved on, the 'charcoal-tinted lens' (as aptly described by a reviewer whose offering isn't very popular) makes student life seem so dismal that I find it hard to accept. Crowded nightclubs yeah, but did everything have to be so dark? The whole movie is permeated with the general feeling THIS IS KIND OF SUBSTANDARD. Like it's riding along in the wrong gear.You have an inanely-named Danish director. I've gone through his commentary on the DVD and the guy is kinda... well, he'd laugh at things I would not find funny. He doesn't sound like an up-to-it director at all, rather more like a marionette to studio bigwigs' every desire.I am not criticizing performances. Leighton Meester was damned good, actually. A professional review on Wikipedia mentions her smile being the perfect balance between a grin and a snarl. Another that it is clear that Leighton is wasting her time here, she deserves better. Minka's part is not as demanding as Leighton's, but she did great.Other great things about the movie: (1) Nina Dobrev as Marie. A single scene, with a highly memorable girl. VAMPIRE DIARIES, here I come! (2) two of the songs are especially good, "Surrender" during the lovemaking scene between Minka and Cam, and the one I'll refer to as "Not Real" during the end titles. Two days later and the latter is still playing in my mind (delightfully, and most welcome! ) By the way, the Richard Price painting of the nurse was supposed to be found creepy? It's not. The best painting, however, is the one Rebecca made of Maria, in Rebecca's bedroom, up against the wall. That's simply beautiful!And all the fuss about Cuddles? What are the people on about? It's a story, and I notice you're not weeping about the actual on-screen gross-fest of the GOSSIP GIRL star getting slaughtered. And the nastiest CATfight in vivid detail, but you just wanna sob your heart out about Cuddles? Nothing is shown on the DVD past the cat being put in the dryer. (It is not an oven, for crying out loud, poor misguided Other Reviewer!) Anyway, Cuddles is the cutest screen kitten ever. and I'm sure he/she inspired people in droves to go adopt a kitty!Could have been better. Which is why I am penalizing it severely. But by the way, SINGLE WHITE FEMALE? Not even nearly Bridget Fonda's best performance, in fact, kinda lame by what she was capable of. In response to Another Reviewer, I think these two DID bring their A- game, just not to an A-script, or A-director.

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-