A depressingly average variation on the FATAL ATTRACTION theme, this weak thriller never rises above the television origins. Every conceivable plot twist is unoriginal and boring, and the film never breaks from the typical mould of today's mindless rip-offs. Rose McGowan (SCREAM) herself is not too bad as the obsessed student, but the rest of the cast are an unmemorable bunch, especially the bland actor playing the teacher who is the root of McGowan's infatuations.
After going through the expected motions, all this film has to offer us is a few inventive scenes amongst the rest of the trash. One involves McGowan gassing a dog to death, another impaling a would-be rapist on a skewer. There is some fun to be had from the banter between two detectives investigating the case as one spells out long words to the other, but this quickly becomes tiring.
All we are left with is a boring, showy climax where McGowan doesn't even bite it, instead she is driven away in a police car after a staged fight scene where the outcome is incredibly obvious from the start (come on, as if the teacher's wife's life was really in danger...). DEARLY DEVOTED is yet another example of the unoriginality of today's film producers, who are unwilling to take risks and so simply churn out the same diluted rubbish film after film.
After going through the expected motions, all this film has to offer us is a few inventive scenes amongst the rest of the trash. One involves McGowan gassing a dog to death, another impaling a would-be rapist on a skewer. There is some fun to be had from the banter between two detectives investigating the case as one spells out long words to the other, but this quickly becomes tiring.
All we are left with is a boring, showy climax where McGowan doesn't even bite it, instead she is driven away in a police car after a staged fight scene where the outcome is incredibly obvious from the start (come on, as if the teacher's wife's life was really in danger...). DEARLY DEVOTED is yet another example of the unoriginality of today's film producers, who are unwilling to take risks and so simply churn out the same diluted rubbish film after film.