“The Perfect Guy” turns out to be…well, not so perfect. When Leah Vaughn (Sanaa Lathan) pressures her live-in boyfriend Dave (Morris Chestnut) to marry her and start a family, he tells her he isn’t ready for that. She tells him to move on, and he does. She starts dating a new man she just met at the coffee shop, Carter (Michael Ealy). Carter seems to be everything she would ever want. He’s a handsome man with manners, and he even hits it off with her hard-to-please father. However, when they stop at a gas station after leaving Leah’s parents’ home, Carter sees a man talking to Leah, and he goes berserk and beats the man nearly to death. She decides she can’t live with that kind of man, and when she tells him their relationship is over, he doesn’t get the idea.
He stalks her, breaks into her home, bugs her computer and monitors her every move. He steals her cat, too. Even a restraining order against him doesn’t help. When Leah begins dating Dave again, the film foreshadows that somebody, or quite possibly more than one person, might not live much longer. When Carter goes one step too far, Leah decides she should take matters into her own hands.
Despite the suspense and well-executed performances, the sex, violence and language categories are too strong for us to award this movie our Dove Family Approved Seal.
