Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Thanks for the memories!

As Good As It Gets

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

"It's 12:06, I had a reservation for 12:45, you just blew it." David Alan Washington (Moore) is a very controlling man, everything must be on time and to his liking. When he comes home to find his fiancé Robin (Atkins) with another man he calls off the wedding. Then begins to date Tina, and becomes much, much worse. Some movies you watch have such an emotional impact on you that it effects your judgment of the film. This is one of them. The acting from the main cast is good (the supporting is if'y at best) but the Washington character distracts you from the flaws of the movie and you focus all your attention on how much you hate him and want horrible things to happen to him. The steps he takes in order to control the women in his life are very dangerous, and the fact that some people are actually like this is terrifying. It's hard to fully judge how good the movie was because of the hatred you feel toward the main character. It has such a polarizing affect that you can't stop watching because you want to see him get what he deserves. Overall a much better movie then I expected and I think everyone should watch this in order to see the way this "man" acts. You will like the movie but hate David. I give it a B+.Would I watch again? - I would if someone who hasn't seen it wants to watch it.*Also Try - For Colored Girls & I Can Do Bad All By Myself

Wow. First I had to double check that I was on the correct page for the movie that I just watched with my man last night. The other four reviews I have read are all positive and are flooded with undeserving compliments. We went into this movie without high expectations but at least expecting a good, solid effort. There were about 20 other people in the theater with us and we were all on the same page. This movie was atrocious. The dialogue was very poorly written, the filming was worse than a bad Lifetime movie, the actors and actresses were NOT on point. When the audience should have been getting worked up with emotion, they were all laughing instead... at the pure ridiculousness of this horrible excuse for a film. I heard one couple say this as we were leaving the theater, "I bet if Tyler Perry watched this, he was laughing his @ss off". I completely agree. Do not waste your money to see this at the theater. Go see Red instead.

Freshman director David M. Matthews delivers a tolerably entertaining soap opera/crime thriller about an affluent, white-collar, African-American worker who suffers from an abysmal case of insecurity where the women in his life are concerned. David Alan Washington (Cordell Moore of the video version of "Why Did I Get Married?") is a micro-managing martinet of man who doesn't trust women, especially after his fiancée cheats on him the day before his wedding with a close friend's boyfriend. Predictably, David cannot stand for this indiscretion, much less the complete lack of respect that his fiancée, Robin Joyner (Essence Atkins of "Dance Flick"), treats him when she tries to have sex with a well-chiseled guy on the floor of David's palatial residence. The boyfriend happens to be the dude that her closest friend, Jill (Tempestt Bledsoe of "Bachelor Man"), intends to wed, and Jill is just as furious with Robyn as she is her musician fiancé, Isaac Roberts (Lamman Rucker of "Meet the Browns"), for permitting Jill to seduce him. When David and Jill walk in on them, David asks Robyn why she is out of breath while Jill points out that Isaac has his fly unzipped. David rules his life by his watch; he is a creature of habit and refuses to tolerate anything less than perfection. Be a minute or two late to an appointment with David and he blows his stack. We learn that he was a Marine who paid for his college education without having to appeal to his equally intolerable father who held a low opinion of him for the get-go. This part of his character has alienated Robyn and she confided in Jill that she doesn't love David on the day before they are to be married.No sooner has David broken up with Jill than he takes a fancy to his secretary's cousin, Tina Simpson (Denise Boutte of "Extreme Movie"), and takes her off on a vacation that was initially designed to be his honeymoon with Robin. Tina has a rough time adapting to David's lifestyle. Moreover, she doesn't realize how jealous that David is. Indeed, David tampered with the brakes on Isaac's caddy and Isaac collided with a train at a railway crossing because he couldn't put on his brakes. The actual collision is suggested more than shown and the opinion of the coroner is that Isaac committed suicide. The biggest problem that "N-Secure" suffers from is its lack of tying up all the loose ends. For example, Robyn winds up pregnant with David's child and he issues a restraining order that she is not to come within a 100 feet of him. Robyn calls for DNA testing to prove that David is the father of her baby daughter. David responds by bribing the medical technician who performs the test, but this redoubles Robyn's efforts to make sure that David pays for his consequences.When David and Tina start seeing each other, the relationship is like a dream come true until David demands that Tina sign a contract so that he can trust her. He demands that she respect him, call him no later than a minute after he has called if she cannot answer, and stay away from her girlfriends. As far as David is concerned, when a woman hangs out with her girlfriends, this kind of behavior qualifies as an alibi so that she can cheat on her man. One day Tina accidentally burns herself with a curling iron while fixing her hair and David jumps to conclusions and accuses her of having been out with another man. Despite David's terminal case of insecurity, Tina loves him for the beautiful man that he is deep down in side. It doesn't take long for Tina to go sour on their relationship. When her brother calls and asks her to come home for the weekend, David immediately concludes that Tina is lying so that she can hop in the sack with another dude.Meanwhile, Robyn doesn't let the restraining order keep her from getting what is rightfully her's for her daughter. She sneaks into David's office (how'd she get past the building guards who should have been alerted to her status?) and steals a straw out of David's garbage can so she can find something to test his DNA. The DNA doctor stands by the negative reports that were shown in the test that David did not sire the child. Nevertheless, he agrees to an informal re-test. David loses no time trying to kill Robyn. He tampers her brakes and she careens through Memphis traffic and strikes a lamppost because no harm occurs to either Robyn or her baby. The re-test proves that David is the father of Robyn's baby. Eventually, Tina musters the nerve to leave David, but he catches her and slaps her. Tina seizes a knife and slashes David; David pins her to the floor with the very same knife and prepares to kill her when . . . the surprise ending kicks in.This low-budget feature film lensed on location in Memphis, Tennessee, has just enough polish to get by, but it lacks closure of the issue of David's murderous behavior and his willingness to bribe anybody to get his way. Not a bad start for Matthews as a helmer. The cinematography and editing are crisp. Presumably, the lack of closure in regard to David's deeds can be chalked up to the low-budget. The ending is somewhat of a surprise. The movie doesn't wear out its welcome, but it isn't as smooth as a major studio picture.

Once I located a theater that was showing the movie I went to see it. This is an excellent movie, plot was so real. Every one should go see it. The crew of actors were great. If you want to see how a controlling relationship really is, go see this movie. Can not wait for it to come out on DVD I will definitely purchase it. I could not see why this type of movie was not at all the movies. Everyone that has been in a relationship can relate to some part of the movie. Ladies take your man to see this movie. If you want to get into a relationship just for the material things and money, beware there is a price to pay, for sure. Controlling someone can be the death of you. This makes you think a few times about marriage, you have to take the time to really know a person male or female. Go see the movie for yourself.