The Ex Obsession (2022) User Reviews

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[BandSAboutMovies · 4/10 · 2 January 2023]

Kim (Chaley Rose) is a stylist happily married to John (B. J. Britt) who has a man crush on his new co-worker Grant (Anthony Dalton II). Coincidentally, Kim and Grant used to be a couple and they still have some attraction, so while discussing how to break the news to John, they end up having sex, as you do. They decide to tell him that they used to date - they elect to skip the fact that they have recently horizontally danced - but as John arrives home to find his once friend, now rival on the couch and goes off, critically injuring Grant. As he goes upstairs to get medicine and towels, Kim coldly dispatches of her ex-lover and orders her man to start impersonating Grant, which ends up driving him mad.

Directed by Michael Civille and written by Ellen Huggins, this movie exists in a world where DNA evidence does not exist, everyone but the villain is a moron and men can go so crazy that they not only kill other men they are friends with, but freak out, then they are them and dig up their bodies and hug them.

I realize this is a Lifetime film, but seriously, is there such a thing as urban giallo? Because this would somewhat fit, even if it doesn't have the stranger in a strange land aspect, it does have sex, fashion, identity issues and murder. What other movies would fit into this unexplored category? When the Bough Breaks? Obsessed? The Perfect Guy? Single Black Female? Fatale?

What in the WORLD?!

[deedrala · 2/10 · 24 February 2024]

The Ex-Obsession

Absolutely ridiculous from beginning to end. Obviously geared toward the dumbest of audiences. Although, I'm pretty sure a 5th grader would see it as an insult to his/her intelligence.

In a nutshell, a sociopathic narcissist woman (Kim) starts a massive gaslighting plot against her husband (John) - including murder - to frame him. (And btw, the synopsis here on imdb is incorrect - John does not accidentally kill the ex-boyfriend (Grant) as it says; Kim purposely kills him when he regains consciousness after being strangled by John.) Part of the convoluted plot is Kim ordering John to start "becoming" Grant by acting and dressing like him (for whatever reason). John is Kim's puppet - he does whatever she orders him to do, without question or hesitation: "Bury the body" - "Go order a cup of coffee for me like Grant would" - "Seduce me exactly like Grant used to", etc. Never once does he ask the simple logical question - "Why?" - like I was wondering. It wasn't to replace Grant to cover up his murder, so what was the reason? Part of the end result of driving him crazy? What if it hadn't worked out that way?

So Ms. Sociopath Narcissist drove off with a satisfied smirk on her face, after manipulating her weak husband into insanity and arrest for murder. So now she doesn't have his income to support her since her own fashion business isn't exactly thriving.......so what was the point?

Yet another Lifetime disaster. Waste of time.

And when will Lifetime ever stop using the same common names over and over in most of their dime-a-dozen movies? "John" - really? The most common man's name of all? It's a constant complaint of mine, especially with the names of the lead and/or secondary female characters.

I only gave it a 2 rating because of Grant's girlfriend - she actually made sense in her role as a worried, confused, and SMART (rare in Lifetime fodder) character.

Grade D / 2 out of 10.

Vindication at its best!

[kyleallencole9 · 6/10 · 3 May 2024]

First off this married couple seriously could of used a counselor or two.

For a tubi original and a LMN flick, this one was very intriguing from start to finish.

Chaley Rose did an amazing job playing the manipulative villain perfectly well.

She plays a woman who is obviously not over her ex nor is happy with her life. She purposely makes her insecure husband think she is having an affair with her ex who is her husband's friend and orchestrates a altercation and then coldly kills her ex. Now her husband thinks he killed him and together they bury the body. She then is still obsessed, so she makes her husband become her ex. The wife's wicked plan hits a snag when her ex's new fiance comes looking for him. As events spiral out of control, she will make sure her husband loses his identity and goes insane so she can have him locked up for murder and she gets away free.

In the end, this calculating woman wins.

Overall good thriller. The needle to the eye murder scene was insane! The only thing it doesn't show, is what the murderess does to the new fiance after she lures her to an abandoned park. Such a great and creepy scene.

Definitely one of the better and different lifetime vicious vixens I've seen!