Addicted (2014)

Fantastic!

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I read the book years ago. I recently heard that it was made into a movie and felt that I HAD to see it. I re-read the book (in 2 days) and watched the movie the following day so that all the details were fresh in my head.The movie is similar to the book but not enough like it. In the book she had 3 kids, and put her family above all, whereas in the Movie she only had 2 children which she neglected regularly. And her business did NOT struggle in the book, when she did go through hard time, she always appointed someone to handle things. She mentioned several times in the book how she needed to go home and cook dinner for her family, but in the movie she couldn't even make it to sports games?? They also skipped all the drama with her lovers ex girlfriend and what happened to her romantic fling with the female. They also completely eliminated their entire childhood story which was like 10 chapters in the book. Their childhood was part of what makes you fall in love with the characters.In addition, her Best Friend Brina was a Train Wreck in the book but was holding her down in the Movie and you couldn't really tell that she was her Best friend. We only know that because Brina stated it in conversation. They never did anything together in the movie. With that being said, there was No Brina Drama either. And for ANYONE who read the book, you know that is a big deal.The last thing I will say is that, in the movie they turned her into a scared women. In the book she was so edgy and ready to (smack a hoe), at the drop of a dime. She had one heck of a temper in the book. Yelp, not in the movie.All in All, I hated the movie because I know what it SHOULD have been like. If I had not read the book than I guess it would have been OK (6/10), but still not great.

What did I just watch....you mean to tell me, this girl can get away with all this and blame it on addiction...so if I go out, and line me up 4 or 5 honeys and bang em out, it's just an addiction. I'm sure my girl would understand and come to my sessions. What about when girl catches Spanish homie givin' it to Diamond? She was jelly, peanut butter and jelly, that ain't nothing to do with sex bruh.. she caught them feelin's like she caught that car comin' at her. This was probably the most gender biased waste of 1 hr 45 mins of my life. Props to her for getting away with it though, then sayin she was just addicted, she killin' the game. She was definitely addicted, to what the d!ck did.

Lack of information? Maybe this movie director doesn't still know what means to be addicted of something? To be addicted of hot dogs or underwear? To be addicted of sex, Mr. Bille Woodruff, it means to need sex time every time with different people and doesn't mean what color race or age that person is. I was expecting that woman to be hooked by every tool she would see in her company with her artist clients, to get hooked with every man in every steps she was doing again and again with the longest and the thickest tool she ever seen. She was supposed to be sick and what i saw it was just a normal love story full of bullshits feelings that were going to pretend that these feelings are because she was addicted. She was not at all addicted of sex. She was not at all hungry for tool and to get hooked by everyone. She was supposed to grab men in the streets and to hook with them and not just to be shy and other senseless sights.

It gives me no pleasure to write this review. I grew up being taught, if you can't say anything nice... I just feel compelled to save viewers time. If this saves money to put towards entertainment, all the better. The year is almost over and I have screened hundreds of movies. This ranks in the bottom three. You pick the category and it epically failed. Now, I have not read the book, and it must be good to be a bestseller. The film adaptation was a botched back-alley medical procedure. The female lead's attempt at showing the confidence & class of Kerry Washington in "Scandal" was like a remedial 2nd grader reciting Shakespeare with the passion evoked by a mandatory summer school class while all her friends got to go to Disney world for the month. Now, if you are a lady & attracted to the leading male, you may enjoy the sex scenes since the female lead is so enamored with a famous artist, at times she admits she is addicted & thus powerless in stopping a downward spiral of cheating on her arguably perfect husband. The movie seemed anti-feminist in that she could not control her behavior & was led strictly by selfish emotion or hormones. So, while the written word of the book might be a guilty pleasure for the reader, the portrayal on screen failed in believability, passion, and living up to an infinitesimal fraction of the best selling author's success. There were no bright spots, and it isn't worth the time to conduct an autopsy. I'm sure there is enough blame or accountability to go around. How this made it to select theaters will need to be dissected by the irresponsible studios that produced this epic, epic, grand implosion of what should have been a highly profitable adaptation of a bestselling author's hard work. Please save your money, your irreplaceable time and yourself. Virtually any B movie offers much more. Knox D. Alford, III