O

My least favorite movie would have to be "O", the 2001 modern day "teen" version of Shakespeare's play, Othello.
In the modern day version of Othello, Odin (Mekhi Phifer), becomes this most popular player on the basketball team and is dating Dean Brable's (John Heard) daughter, Desi (Julia Stiles). When Duke (Martin Sheen), the basketball coach, presents the MVP (most valuable player) award to Odin, Hugo (Josh Harnett) the coach's son, expressed his jealously towards the popularity of Odin's reputation as a basketball player. At an afterparty, Hugo plans his doubt of insanity to his best friend, Roger (Elden Henson), who happens to have a crush on Desi, on destroying Odin, first with his relationship with Desi. Hugo asked Roger to tell the Dean that his daughter was raped by Odin, so if they split, Roger would take her. When that fails, Hugo with Roger said he would infest lies and doubts into Odins mind in making him believe that Desi is cheating on him with his best friend, Michael Cassio (Andrew Keegan), a basketball player who closely works with Odin. First, Roger must spark a fight with Michael in hoping he would lose his place on the basketball team. When Michael got suspended, Hugo put his plan further into action. Emily (Rain Phoenix) Hugo's girlfriend, steals a scarf that belongs to Desi to Hugo to give to Michael. Odin begins to suspect that Desi may indeed be cheating on him with Michael. Odin, along with Hugo and Roger thoughtout on killing Desi and Michael. At night during a basketball game, Hugo and Roger decides to kill Michael in a pull-over accident. When Roger fails to kill Michael, Hugo killed both of them. At another place, Odin with Desi, begins questioning her about their relationship. Desi confesses she was faithful to him the entire time. Odin, begins to get angry and kill Desi with his barehands. After she died, Hugo walked in with the scarf and the gun used to kill Michael and Roger. Odin then realizes everything was made up and that Desi was indeed faithful to him. He told Hugo to tell everyone the truth. Realizing his mistake, he picked up the gun and killed himself. Later, Hugo was taken into custody and that would be the end of it.

I find this movie very disturbing to watch because it promotes violence, drugs and jealously. Speaking of violence, you see Roger trying to kill Michael with a gun. Then Hugo used the gun to kill both Roger and Michael. At the end of the movie, Hugo was able to influence Odin into killing Desi. At that time, he was on drugs which led to his violent behavior. As far as jealousy, it was obvious throughout the beginning and end that Hugo was extremely jealous of Odin.

This movie shouldn't be made in a teen's version because like all teens movie, it's lame. I think this movie kills the actual Shakespearan play. I also find it pretty lame as the actors acted their own dialogues. Josh, on the other hand, came out as the stronger character. His envy, intelligence and self-absorbed behavior was almost made believable. Martin Sheen, who plays Duke, a basketball coach, was very overwhelming to watch like in all of his movies, he stood out and can be very raw. I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone. There are other Othello movies that are far more greater to watch than this.