Roommate Wanted (2015 Video) User Reviews (12)

Positively surprising. Its ironic, symbolic, funny and ever so dysfunctional. It's really good.

[angiris · 6/10 · 25 June 2016]

Well. I had a positive vibe when first putting this on and I gotta say. I'm positively intrigued by this movie.

We got 2 roomies, living together and trying to change one another frequently. Critiquing one another, thinking one knows better than the other and it makes for wonderful entertainment, good replay value and all together a nice fun to watch.

The acting is okay, as the film highlights itself: "Lead character says: I believe in clichés" this film is certainly that, but not so in a bad way. Which to me is a breath of fresh air considering a lot of garbage I've seen lately.

However this doesn't fall in that category for the reason that the setting, story and development of the plot is actually interesting whilst also being comical. Funny considering based on its selected genre "Thriller" and its poster, portraying Vega so spooky, the film itself is not entirely like that. Something I'd usually dislike but not here.

These two women represent 2 large parts of our late modern society. The conformists, and those who try to run their own show, wanting to stand out. And putting them together is bound to create a spark. (And that right there was a pun to those who decide to see the movie. Not to mention its legit symbolism of the many conflicts we see everyday. How we should live, who's not living properly, who's not mainstreaming)

Both girls are giving excellent argumentation as to why they are correct in choosing their lifestyles, whilst the film gets increasingly violent and hostile. The atmosphere is great because it remains comical at the same time, yet it does at no point become entirely ridiculous. because I couldn't help to notice these many symbolic gestures which were very appropriate from an artistic point of view when looking at Late Modernism. The ending is a real work of art, yet a bit surprise.

They end up connecting over something that would usually kill them but its structured, alongside the rest in a way that it encourages balance in life.

What usually would kill you wont, if you just do things a little bit, instead of being so extreme and radical. And this kind of thinking, put into the perspective of this film truly makes it really good in my opinion.

Of course if you choose not to overthink it you got a big cat fight on your hands, where two chicks are hating on each others lifestyles and that gets increasingly ugly. But there's more to this if you think, as you watch :)

I liked it, guys. And I'll definitely watch it again. Great fun, good ending, yet controversial considering. I wont spoil the ending because that was one of the cool surprises after seeing it.

Adding to the bi-polar aspect this film not only includes within its characters, but also in its plot itself. Because this ending highlights how when you least expect it, your world will be turned upside down. Cognitive dissonance all the way. :)

But yes. Good film. 6 out of 10. Its above average. Kind of film I'd get on DVD and enjoy when I feel like watching something okay and interesting. Decent replay value due to its setting and progress. 90 % of the film is inside their house where everything unfolds and its just all about character development and the spark between the two that gets increasingly volatile. I love movies like this.

Good movie if you have an open mind and don't expect a masterpiece. There's room for ordinary, above average movies too. And this film is one of those.

I feel like saying more but I not sure what, which highlights that its just one of those gems that don't have all that much to it. But what it does have...is good. And I personally appreciate those rare occasions where we can get an hour and a half movie that isn't rushed, annoying, stupidly cliché or just boring.

It's my opinion that this film is one of the good ones. Go give it a watch. It might not be worth a cinema trip as such but on DVD or a rental it's definitely good entertainment.

Who wouldn't want to be roommates with Alexa Vega!

[NileFortnerBoogieBuddha954 · 6/10 · 12 October 2016]

Going into this film I was expecting a serious horror film or thriller. On the other hand, the film might be a mixture of genres. Sometimes the film feels like a comedy, sometimes like a drama, and sometimes like a psycho thriller. In the case of Roommate Wanted you have a better than expected film that is a lot of genres in one big blender.

The film can be best described as a dramedy about mismatched roommates who hate each other. You might be thinking to yourself that this does not sound like horror and you would be partly correct. However, when the film goes to the extreme it gets EXTREME. The film benefits from strong performances and from the fact that although it is a small movie, it looks great. The performances are really good. Honestly, the performances are the best part of the film. Alexa Vega is more than just a pretty face. She is talented, tough, a good actress, and I wish we could see her in more films. I also thought how even though there are only two real main characters, you can connect to them both. Meaning you can relate to both Alexa Vega's character and Spencer Grammar's character.

What I didn't like about the film is the writing is a little off. Meaning, the script feels like there are parts that drag, feel like filler, and at times doesn't know what it wants to be.

So these are my final B*tchin' Buddha thoughts on Roommate Wanted (2015). It is a film you are going to like, or a film you are going to hate. I honestly do not see too many people loving this, but I do see someone liking this. If you are looking for a simply minded horror, thriller, comedy, whatever it is. I think you will be pleased. I believe this film earns a…

6 out of 10.

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Who to pick?

[kosmasp · 4/10 · 5 September 2016]

If you have to completely different characters on display, it sometimes is very hard to pick which one you actually like to root for. In this case I thought I was rooting for the lesser evil of the two, the one that seemed to keep it as real as possible, instead of harboring anger and letting it explode almost without a reason.

But if you're honest to yourself, both are as mean as it gets. Not that you wish them anything bad. You just don't care about them, which is not the best thing for a movie with two main characters who are on screen most of the time. Where is the connection? While you may be able to understand how the situation came to be, the extremes this goes are a bit much (which is actually an understatement).

Cat Fight - Out Of The Blue

[niaz_islam · 3/10 · 24 June 2016]

This movie is all about simple cat fight which turns into a violent one. The entire movie is about a day, and it was so bizarre.

Things are happening without any sequence. One moment one girl showing something or doing something that irritates the other person, next moment she amends that or apologize. And it goes vice versa throughout the film. Which does not make any sense at all.

Now about the acting only main two girls acting was tolerable but the acting of the rest of the cast looks like they are the relatives of the producer or the director. Talk about overacting and silly expressions, they were expert on that. But at the end where the intense scene was taking place, there the main two actresses' acting became pretty sloppy too. And the ending, it is the best worst part of the movie. In the final scene both actresses depicted worst acting skill ever, their achievement throughout the film falls apart in this scene, you will agree with me if you watch the movie. But I highly recommend you to avoid the film unless you are into cat fights.

I am giving the movie 3 stars only because the efforts the two main character put into the movie.

Absolute rubbish

[sugafly54 · 1/10 · 28 September 2016]

What a piece of crap movie from start to finish, bad acting, bad plot, bad everything. And the cherry on top was the dog being killed by the snake. The dog was the only good thing about the movie. I am so angry for the time I wasted and then having to see that was incredibly upsetting. Why do people waste money making ridiculous movies like this? It was so bad, I can't go on enough about how about it was. I am literally mortified at how psychotic they were, it gave women off as absolute mental patients and I just shudder thinking back. I think I need to watch like 500 bad movies to get over the pain of this one.

I don't think I've ever hated a movie enough to even bother writing a review.

If you're a male, *must-see* for an insight!

[rsvp321 · 4 December 2019]

If you're female, I think you'd laugh at it, too.

I thought it was brilliant!

War of the Roses-esque, with two young ladies.

Some pretty good comedy, a touch of tragedy, the two actresses nailed their parts.

I'm not sure !

[Sexyjay71 · 4/10 · 28 January 2021]

I am not sure if I like/dislike the movie. It was just blah. Will I watch it again, absolutely not. I just don't know what kind of movie this is. Definitely not horror/thriller. It's not the worst film I've seen, and not the best I've seen. However I did like the message (in my own opinion/thoughts) the message I received it that no matter how smart or beautiful one is, deep down there is a lot of hurt and pain.

Much ado about next to nothing ...

[parry_na · 5/10 · 22 August 2019]

Here's something I was not expecting to like. Two attractive young women sharing accommodation: one, studious and ambitious and the other, superficial and gorgeous. To begin with, I was hard-pressed to tell much difference between them. Both are casually stunning and appear very happy in their individual skins; and that is why I wasn't sure I would see this film through - I dislike such blemish-free catwalk characters being passed off as 'everyday'. It's a stereotype. It fuels people's paranoia about themselves. It presents a false image, and it annoys me.

Secondly, 'The Lodger/Roommate Wanted' is sold as a horror thriller. For a long time, I was waiting for anything horrific to show itself. By the end, I still think - despite some violence - I was somewhat mis-sold.

With all that out of the way, I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. The two girls are exceptionally well-played and occasionally, it really seems as if the veneer exhibited by both of them (in their own ways) is about to be cracked - but it never really happens. The violence, nasty though some of it is, is cartoon-like. Any scars or blemishes dished out soon disappear. Even toward the end, after everything is superficially - that word again - trashed, they still speak to each other in cliché (early on, Janie professes to 'like' clichés), their stoically cutesy personality traits very much intact.

I would have liked to see the comedy antics - some of which are genuinely quite funny - gradually dissipate as their fight went on. I would have liked to see the violence - both physical and mental - go further, instead of just being sporadically addressed before the two of them call another short-lived truce. Even the ending lurches back into caricature humour, which undoes much of the good work that had been done stripping them of their bravado. Perhaps Director Rob Margolies and writer Aaron Edward just weren't interested in making that kind of film. A shame, because if events had become more serious and more extreme, this could have been a really interesting project. My score is 5 out of 10.

One day. Two girls. One huge cat fight. ** Spoilers minimal. **

[dylux-72117 · 2/10 · 1 July 2016]

The only reason I gave this movie two stars, rather than one is because I actually thought enough of the movie to sit through the entire movie in high hopes it would get better.

The movie starts off with one roommate beating the crap out of the other and then it rewinds to earlier that day to explain why. After that, the plot maintains stability and interest for about 20 minutes.

After that, the entire plot is a bit loose and quite boring. We have no idea how it came to be that these two mentally unstable and completely opposite lead characters decided to live together, obviously without even knowing each other at all beforehand. More history, rather than "We have 341 days left on the lease" would have been better for the movie's plot and its absent character growth.

Have you ever watched the movie "Home Alone" and spent the entire movie wondering, just like I did, "How could this happen (that Culkin's character got left behind by his own mother)??!" Well, you are going to do the same thing for 95 minutes - only this time you will wonder how they became roommates in the first place.

And just when you thought you have seen enough cat fighting, here comes the ending. And it's terrible. Just the horrible icing on an already poor cake.

So, not only do you get no history between the characters, you are left with no future with them, either.

A cross between "Single White Female" and "War of the Roses."

Love it

[BatsyCharky · 7/10 · 3 July 2018]

I'm watching this fer the 3rd time. I love it. It reminds me of the Japanese movie 1r2b. Or something like that.

I'M GOING TO BEAT THE SLUT OUT OF YOU!

[nogodnomasters · 8/10 · 16 April 2018]

Janie (Alexa Vega) is a brainy young lady attempting to get a scholarship at a prestigious graduate university. Her roommate Dee (Spencer Grammer) is a "slut" who enjoys her vices. These polar opposite women compete to sell their eggs, a completion that evolves into a knock down, drag out cat fight.

We have all seen those horror films where there is a psychotic roommate who emulates the other one. I can think of four off the top of my head. However, in this movie, both the women believe the other one wants to emulate them, and they go out of their way to "help" the other one by destroying their lives all from the inside of their home (low budget).

The production is not a horror/thriller film, but rather a dark comedy. If you have seen 3-4 roommate type film, you should be able to appreciate this one.

Guide: F-bomb. brief sex. Male butt nudity.

This movie was better than I thought it would be--but it has to be your kind of movie

[taraholman-70711 · 8/10 · 4 October 2020]

There were actually a few poignant messages in this film. That was unexpected.