Featured Audience Ratings

• J P

  
  lol at this movie. I love how the girl is mentally unstable yet her parents allowed her to go AWAY to college haha. Great logic there. I also really like the fact that Michalka's character pretty much fell out of the movie entirely. She never called the cops or anything after she… More
  lol at this movie. I love how the girl is mentally unstable yet her parents allowed her to go AWAY to college haha. Great logic there. I also really like the fact that Michalka's character pretty much fell out of the movie entirely. She never called the cops or anything after she was attacked by the girl....she just kind of went away and we never saw her again haha. Omg. Movie definitely sucks a lot, but it was entertaining to make fun of. I can't even review it properly because it doesn't deserve to be reviewed at all.

• Directors C

  
  [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon13.gif[/img] This movie is entirely uninteresting and savagely boring. The minute it began I couldn't stop wanting it to end. The Roommate has terrible acting, awful direction and just a plain lame premise.… More
  [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon13.gif[/img] This movie is entirely uninteresting and savagely boring. The minute it began I couldn't stop wanting it to end. The Roommate has terrible acting, awful direction and just a plain lame premise. There's been a lot of bad things churned out in 2011 but The Roommate is a top contender for the most thrill free thriller of the year.

• Dean !

  
  A tame version of Single white female basically. These types of films are always geared towards the teenage market that might not have seen the film that nearly all the ideas are from. By having the low rating though it suffers from not being able to be more shocking or disturbing.… More
  A tame version of Single white female basically. These types of films are always geared towards the teenage market that might not have seen the film that nearly all the ideas are from. By having the low rating though it suffers from not being able to be more shocking or disturbing. Also a case of seen it too many times before in countless films that have tried to copy SWF success. Average thriller, but I suggest you watch Single white female instead.

• Tyler R

  
  My first ever film where I fell asleep in the theater. I knew from the first 5 minutes how bland and predictable this film would be. The acting was dull, there's nothing that grabs the interest of the audience, and the movie overuses every horror cliche in the book. Predictable… More
  My first ever film where I fell asleep in the theater. I knew from the first 5 minutes how bland and predictable this film would be. The acting was dull, there's nothing that grabs the interest of the audience, and the movie overuses every horror cliche in the book. Predictable jump "scares," check. No tension or suspense, check. Lacking scares, check. Don't waste your time, one of the worst films of 2011.

• Roy G

  
  There are some interestingly nasty moments and some chills, but it's predictable and derivative.

• Cynthia S

  
  SIngle White Female remake? If so, boooo! Nothing special here.

• Bethany M

  
  To call this awful would be a little harsh, emphasis on a little. As Leighton Meester really does give it her all as potraying a physcotic stalker, however it's just not good enough. The storyline has been done before, many a times and doesn't really seperate itself from any… More
  To call this awful would be a little harsh, emphasis on a little. As Leighton Meester really does give it her all as potraying a physcotic stalker, however it's just not good enough. The storyline has been done before, many a times and doesn't really seperate itself from any of the others that have been done like this before. Nothing really new or captivating and it was quite a dissapointment. The only thing I liked about this film in all honesty was Cam Gigandet as he was a perfect distraction to this quite terrible film.

• Nicki M

  
  I was surprised by the low ratings here. I mean, okay, it is a second rate rip off of Single White Female, but anyone who didn't know that going into it is deluded. I expected a dumb psycho movie, and this delivered. All the cliches are there. It is not all that gory (and I… More
  I was surprised by the low ratings here. I mean, okay, it is a second rate rip off of Single White Female, but anyone who didn't know that going into it is deluded. I expected a dumb psycho movie, and this delivered. All the cliches are there. It is not all that gory (and I was quite glad not to "see" the cat scene in detail). Cast are fine. Leighton Meester reminded me of a young Alicia Sliverstone here.

• Sanjaya &

  
  definitely nothing special and new about it, just some psychological teenage thriller that will freak out some woman.. For me, the story could be rewritten into a better story, like telling a little about Rebecca's past why she become so obsessed like this because they lack an… More
  definitely nothing special and new about it, just some psychological teenage thriller that will freak out some woman.. For me, the story could be rewritten into a better story, like telling a little about Rebecca's past why she become so obsessed like this because they lack an explanation about why Rebecca turn out into crazy roommate like that.. The cast just doing okay, Meester doing her best while the others just doing okay.. I wouldn't highly recommend it, but if you're a teenage girl and you definitely want to scream, even just a little, then watch this movie..

• Cassie H

  
  I don't know why so many people on her disliked this movie. I thought that it was very good & not terrifying but it was definitely a good thriller.

• Pedro H

  
  <i> 2,000 colleges. 8 million roommates. Which one will you get? </i> Lame, yet able to entertain through it run out Basically, girl moves in to college, dorms with a crazy roommate that wants to be her. This low yet <b>unique</b> blueprint is actually able… More
  <i> 2,000 colleges. 8 million roommates. Which one will you get? </i> Lame, yet able to entertain through it run out Basically, girl moves in to college, dorms with a crazy roommate that wants to be her. This low yet <b>unique</b> blueprint is actually able to create and design a good plot. The actresses, are <b>Hot,sexy, and beautiful</b>, therefore first point is you wont mind watching pure hotness for 1 hour and 33 minutes. Second point that you wont mind is listening to the awesome soundtrack that follows the movie, and finally you won't mind the acting itself, its actually quite surprising. Yet, The Roommate fails to scare, but doesn't fail to entertain its time on screen. Therefore it's up to you to judge what you think of this movie. <u>Rebecca:</u> <i>"You can borrow anything that you want." </i>

• Lewis C

  
  "You can call me Emily if you want." I expected The Roommate to be a train-wreck, given all the negative reviews it received. But surprisingly, it wasn't terrible. It's a pretty generic thriller about obsession, and it certainly does nothing new, but I've… More
  "You can call me Emily if you want." I expected The Roommate to be a train-wreck, given all the negative reviews it received. But surprisingly, it wasn't terrible. It's a pretty generic thriller about obsession, and it certainly does nothing new, but I've seen much worse. New college student Sara (Minka Kelly) moves into her dorm and meets her roommate, Rebecca (Leighton Meester). The girls get along well enough, despite Rebecca's penchant for being over-protective, but soon Sara starts to notice that some things about the way Rebecca acts towards other people who share Sara's time are quite...odd. I'm sure you can guess where the plot goes from there. This isn't a movie that's hard to figure out, and there are no shocking plot twists, or anything like that. The Roommate doesn't get any points for originality, to say the least. The cast is certainly pretty (toss Aly Michalka, Danneel Harris, Nina Dobrev, and a perpetually smarmy-looking Cam Gigandet in with Meester and Kelly), and they're mostly successful in roles that don't ask them to do a whole lot. Meester is given what's probably the most demanding part, but the fact that the script lacks any real teeth makes her attempts at being sinister decent, at best. The movie is short, which is a good thing. This isn't the kind of plot that needs to be stretched out. As I said, it wasn't horrible. I didn't feel like I was wasting my time as I was watching it. But unless you're a big fan of some of the cast, you're really no missing anything if you decide to skip The Roommate.

• Aaron N

  
  It's got Billy Zane! and a dead kitten!

• Manu G

  
  Good movie, the story is quite simple and you can see exactly what you gonna get in the trailer. I believe this is really true, there are psychos that look normal that you meet in life and turn on you but not exactly like this and not as cute as her. Lots of hot girls in this movie… More
  Good movie, the story is quite simple and you can see exactly what you gonna get in the trailer. I believe this is really true, there are psychos that look normal that you meet in life and turn on you but not exactly like this and not as cute as her. Lots of hot girls in this movie that's why I like this movie more than I should. The Roommate is one of those films, that when you first the trailer, you think to yourself, "This is gonna suck". But only when you actually see the film do you realize that you were only partly wrong. The Roommate's premise is simple enough. A young pretty girl is being stalked and obsessed with by her roommate. The film revolves around Sarah (Minka Kelly) who is on her own, going to college and learning new things. Little does she know that she has a stalker roommate, Rebecca (Leighton Meester). As soon as Rebecca and Sarah become closer to each other, strange events begin to occur. Each of Sarah's close friends or allies becomes hurt, or sometimes even killed. I wonder who could've done this? The good thing about The Roommate is that it is a pretty decent thriller. Even though it doesn't even come close to meeting the standards of a horror movie, it still delivers some chills and even some cheap jump scares. The acting is good as well. With the exception of Minka Kelly. Cam Gigandet delivers a solid sometimes annoying performance as Sarah's new beau. Even though he is not in the film for long, he lifts our spirits when things are going rough, which is pretty much every 10 minutes. But the real scene stealer here is Leighton Meester as the crazed roommate. Meester delivers a believable potent performance, psychotic one moment and sweet the next. The bad things about the film are that in the very beginning it moves far too fast. Jumping from one thing to the next in the blink of an eye. Also, the writing really could've used a makeover. I mean, the dialogue in this film is ridiculous. All in all, the film is at times stupid and the deaths aren't very well executed, if executed at all. But the acting and characters keep you around for the show. Overall, The Roommate is a film I would recommend, but only to open-minded movie watchers.

• Luke B

  
  The painful kind of crap you wish wasn't made. It's so predictable you can just pick scenes at random and figure out what has happened and what is going to happen. Like many films of this kind Meester wreaks of crazy. It's so stupid and insulting how obvious writers… More
  The painful kind of crap you wish wasn't made. It's so predictable you can just pick scenes at random and figure out what has happened and what is going to happen. Like many films of this kind Meester wreaks of crazy. It's so stupid and insulting how obvious writers make weirdos like this. How did they function in society and why are they still out and about? Even when Meester's mother asks about her medication, and gets a confused look in response, she doesn't follow it up. People are attacked by a weak little tramp and we're supposed to buy the intimidation. I love these stalker type films, but at least offer something new. This takes place in that magical movie world where common sense has been outlawed to make way for lazy script writing.

• Everett J

  
  This is not a very good movie at all, but it is a little better than what I expected. Then again I had very low expectations. It's basically "Single White Female" only a lighter version of it. The performances are pretty bland, and so is the story. But the biggest… More
  This is not a very good movie at all, but it is a little better than what I expected. Then again I had very low expectations. It's basically "Single White Female" only a lighter version of it. The performances are pretty bland, and so is the story. But the biggest thing that holds this movie back is it's rating, PG-13. If this were an "R" rating and they pushed the envelope a little further this could have been a very good thriller. Instead they went for the cheap no scares route for the 15 year old demographic. Which I guess is fine if your 15, but if your older this just isn't very good. I'd say it's on the same level as "Swimfan", but no where near "Single White Female."

• Kevin M

  
  such a terrible terrible movie, the plot makes no sense and the charters are so 1 dimensional that they are practically as lifeless as the unearned money the get from this movie

• Universal D

  
  i always knew you were crazy. oh, waitaminnut, it's your roommate, i meant your roommate. made in hollywood on the cheap in maybe 3 weeks tops. and i don't think they took that long on the script.

• Shawn M

  
  The script maybe inspired by other films and maybe a short point of a crazy girl obsessed with another girl, but the acting was decent enough to keep me interested until the end. Clap Clap.

• Cameron J

  
  "Devoid of chills, thrills, or even cheap titillation, 'The Roommate' isn't even bad enough to be good." Wow, I love how Rotten Tomatoes advertized this film to death, and yet it still came down to a that. If you wanted to get any real thrills pertaining to… More
  "Devoid of chills, thrills, or even cheap titillation, 'The Roommate' isn't even bad enough to be good." Wow, I love how Rotten Tomatoes advertized this film to death, and yet it still came down to a that. If you wanted to get any real thrills pertaining to this film, then you're best bet was to just hang out on the RT site for about the month they had this film advertized everywhere, just waiting on the edge of your seat for this film to come out and get panned, as it was so obviously going to. Man, I can't help but feel a moderate sense of disappointment in RT for overselling a film that we all knew was going to be terrible; but hey, they probably got plenty of big bucks out of it. Yeah, I know, shame on the sell-outs, but at least they're sticking to their guns and actually advertizing movies; unlike something like Music Television, which actually has "Music" in its title, and yet all they do is show bad reality shows, bad sitcoms, bad movies, bad game shows and "Rob Dydrek's Fantasy Factory", which is actually kind of decent, and just occasionally pop up a sub bar that briefly describes a song playing in the background. Well, in all fairness, I would say, in the immortal words of Mark Knopfler, "I want my MTV", but considering how bad contemporary music is, they can keep that garbage on in the background, because I'm suffering more than I can handle in this 95 minute long film, alone, and this is some of the better garbage that I've heard from recent music catalogues. If nothing else horrifies you in this film, then it's soundtrack, and yet that's among the least of this film's problems, which isn't to say that it doesn't have "some" passable things about it; emphasis on the "some". If I can say anything about the film, then it's the fact that... um... some of the girls are pretty. No, but seriously, if I can particularly compliment anything about this film, it would probably have to be John Frizzell's score, and I'm not just complimenting it because every moment in it's playing is a moment where they could have played anothe really bad piece from the soundtrack. True, Mr. Frizzell has got to be as conventional of a score composer as they come, but at least he's ripping-off quality scores. True, this score isn't terribly bang-pow, but it has a cool, sobering rhythm to it that's familiar, but never not rather impressive, and sure enough, it's enjoyable, even in a film this unenjoyable, partially because it really supplements the intimidating atmosphere. Of course, for something to supplement a product, that product first has to exist in order to be enhanced. Well, unfortunately, no matter how much Frizzell tries, the thriller aspect comes out as a mere fizzle, and yes, I'm sorry, but that cheesy rhyme was, in fact, intented. Hey, at least it's not as lame as the "thriller" aspects of the film, which are so startlingly ineffective, with absolutely no chills, oomph or even something as cheap as jump scares for that matter, which I can somewhat understand, because if they pulled something like a jump scare, the film would, for a split second, become inconsistent by being momentarily exciting, something that this film is most certainly not; neither when it comes to the scares or even the plot, such as it is. Not only is the film not even mildly thrilling, but it's boring as all get-out, with no life in the air and long periods of absolutely nothing happening, at all, and yet, when something does actually happen in the "plot" it's so startlingly same-old-same-old. There's virtually nothing terribly unique at any point in the film, rendering it painfully predictable, something that can work in some thrillers, should there be enough bleakness in the aura to at least play with your knowledge of what is too happen next and leave you compelled to see how it's going to work in the film, yet the film is too incompetent to even pull that off. The film is in no way compelling, and not just because it's so boring and predictable, but because it's all but entire empty of the human touch, boasting characters that are truly unlikable, simply because they're so unbelievable. Now, I understand that friendships and youth - even as old as college youth - can haze someone's judgement, but the tell-tell signs - nay - warnings that fall into Minka Kelly's Sara Matthews character's lap are so glaringly obvious that you can't even attach to her as an endangered lead, because she's just too unbelievable for you to even feel for her as a likably competent person, much less entrapped victim, and with most everyone else feeling so insignificant as anything other than components to the underwhelming thriller aspects, there's no one that can attach to as even humans, and the performers really aren't helping. Not only is there no human touch to the characters on paper, but there's no real juice in anyone's dull, at best, barely passable translation of the characters, with the biggest acting flops being people that need to be anything but: the leads. Now, I'm not saying that the Sara Matthews character is a heavily layered one, but Minka Kelly can't even have the character go from so-so to mildly chipper without the transition being jarring, yet if there's anything that she's consistent about, it's cheesiness and stiffness in her line delivery, robbing our main lead - whose human presence as the audience's avatar is one of the key aspects of this film - of any life or compellingness. As for Cam Gigandet, I don't even know where to begin with him, because it's so absurdly hard to describe just how bad, one-note and even overly squinty he is, but believe me when I say that I'm pretty much understating when I say that he's so lifeless, so wooden and blank-faced - and yet somehow muggier than a coffee container at the same time - and so devoid of any acting presence, and watching him try to act is easily more horrifying than the actual antagonist, and that's really saying something, considering that Leighton Meester is so startlingly ineffective, not simply lacking an intimidating presence, but any presence at all, as she too, like everyone else in the film, is so wooden and inhuman, further draining this film of its blood until it is left nothing more than yet another dry, cold and hardly, if at all enjoyable drop of conventional swill in an ocean of countless thrillers of its type. When it's all said and "finally" done, all I can say that's positive about this film is really nothing more than John Frizzel's sharp, dark score, and even that is rendered ineffective, being drowned out by the total absence of any intimidation in the overly conventional, hardly-eventful and just plain boring plot that goes plagued by unlikable and inhuman characters, made all the more unengaging by borderline across-the-board weak, if not just plain awful performances, ultimately leaving "The Roommate" to fall as a bloodless, uninspired bore of a non-thriller. 1.5/5 - Bad

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