InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Caren This film had so much potential - a good premise, great actors, a decent budget, but it fails because of the script.The film is not sure what it wants to be - horror? comedy? drama? romance? It tries to do it all and doesn't do any of them well. It fails completely in that regard.The film could've shown how society is becoming more and more isolated, people working jobs in cubicles to go home to their tiny box apartments with their potted plants and their pets, but the film skims through that issue rather than drive it home. Lisa made a comment that she could disappear and no one would know, but it was an off-hand comment that was not explored further. The film could've spent more time exploring this existential crisis rather than have a man arguing with a doll. Show Lisa as a loner too, a sad cat lady. Show Kenneth as someone who becomes more and more lonely as his gamer friends move away in pursuit of jobs/money, leaving his only contact with them is through online gaming. Show how both Kenneth and Lisa get birthday or Christmas calls on their answering machines from their parents. Show them eating lunch alone in their cubicles.Make it sad. Make it depressing, psychological, so that when Kenneth starts arguing with the doll, he has been pushed to the limit and has lost touch with reality rather than he's playing a role-playing game.Make it more psychological. The turning point in the film was when Lisa discovers a photo of the doll wearing her clothes. It's too cheap. Make it something more subtle, such as Kenneth becoming more aggravated as Lisa is a real human being with flaws. She menstruates, she snores, she has to shave her legs, she's not always in the mood for sex, etc. Make her moody, depressive, suicidal even. Make it human vs doll, reality vs fantasy. That's where the turning point should be. Make Kenneth become irritated and irritable to the point where she leaves him.This movie goes for cheap shortcuts rather than build-up and payoff - Lisa learns about the doll, the building super walks into the room and gets killed, etc.Instead of being deep, disturbing, philosophical, existential, psychological and depressing, it ends up being cheesy - cubicle worker buys doll, dates cubicle girl, she learns about doll, things goes bad, he kills cubicle girl (indirectly, but still).I can't recommend it to anyone, but it has the potential for a remake if done right.

bjt55 To the average movie lover this movie might score this a 6 and on a good day 7, but to me a true horror fan it gets a 10/10 (Im sure some true horror fans could even find ways to hate this). Its very creative and original. Its fun and has great comedic scenes, not in the way where its so lame you have to laugh because the acting is terrible or predictable (believe it or not it isn't that predictable) or anything like that. I mean think about trying to lug around a sex doll in an apartment with a bunch of quirky neighbors watching... The movie had a really good flow to it, and a good build up as well as climax (pun intended come on its a sex doll). This movie is great to get a bunch of friends to have a beer and laugh and also enjoy. Or its creepy enough to watch it alone at night. It is really atmospheric. All in all I wish there were more horror movies like this one!

Paul Andrews Love Object starts like any other ordinary day for technical manual writer Kenneth Winsow (Desmond Harrington) until he finds a photo of a highly realistic sex doll on his desk put there as a joke by one of his colleagues (Brad Henke), however since Kenneth is a bit of a nerd & shy around the opposite sex he becomes fascinated with the doll & goes online & orders one who he models on his new assistant Lisa Bellmer (Melissa Sagemiller). Kenneth's whole life revolves around the sex doll & he becomes infatuated with it but at the same time he starts to develop a relationship with the real Lisa, unfortunately it seems that life-like sex dolls can get just as jealous as the real thing...Written & directed Robert Parigi Love Object is another one of those films that has a cult following & a certain reputation but when finally watched it rather disappoints, well it disappointed anyway. The script starts off really well, the scenes involving Kenneth & the sinister looking doll are actually quite creepy at times & pretty effective as he begins to lose his grip on reality but towards the end when he dumps the doll & turns his attention to the real Lisa the film looses it's originality & doesn't engage as much although I must say that I liked the ending where the bad guy actually comes out on top for a change. The film also lacks any sub-plots & not much else really happens so besides an effective first hour or so it's nothing to write home about. There is also a bizarre theme running through the film with certain seedy character's having prominent birth marks & it's never explained why. The character's are alright although Kenneth is given virtually no background whatsoever so it's a bit hard to connect with the guy, I mean he likes having sex with dolls modelled on someone he works with & he likes a bit of bondage as well which are obviously everyday normal activities everyone of us can relate to easily, can't we? The film has an OK pace & moves along reasonably enough but I felt it might have worked a little better if it had been shorter.Director Parigi does OK & there's a nice clean static look to the cinematography but it doesn't really have any visual flair & is a bit flat. I'm not sure whether this was intended as a straight horror but I don't think it was because it's not scary, there's a certain strange atmosphere to it but it won't give you nightmares. There's no gore or violence worth speaking about.With a supposed budget of about $1,000,000 & apparently shot in just 18 days Love Object is well made & has decent production values but ultimately forgettable. The acting is pretty good, it's always nice to see Udo Kier & I have to say I thought Sagemiller was a total babe & is easy on the eyes.Love Object wants to be a cult film but I'm not having it at all, it's an OK watch but I didn't think it was anything special & I doubt I'd ever want to see it again. Maybe I'm missing something but I thought it was a bit too predictable & it left me distinctly unmoved, worth a watch if your after something a bit different but don't expect a masterpiece.

hollywoodspikeblack When I first saw this movie, I couldn't help but think that this was THE greatest movie I have ever seen. Love Object deserves to have a sequel. Although the movie has a couple of disturbing scenes, that didn't distract me from how this good movie was. Love Object is the perfect movie to watch. I also want to say that once you see this movie for the first time, you can't help but watch it over and over again. I am practically moved by how every actor played their parts in a sense of how well the acted. Once this movie is in your thoughts, you can't help but express how you feel about watching it again. Sometimes you would want to get up out your chair and rush to the video store and buy the movie Love Object.