This one's DOA.
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07/09/07
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Perfect Stranger (2007)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:3
Rotten:31
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: Despite the presence of Halle Berry and Bruce Willis, Perfect Stranger is too convoluted to work, and features a twist ending that's irritating and superfluous. It's a techno-thriller without thrills.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Genre: Thriller, Murder, Reporters, Theatrical Release, Dating, Internet
Theatrical Release:Apr 13, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $23,705,592
Synopsis: Ace New York Courier reporter Rowena Price (Halle Berry) will do anything to get her story---even if it verges on the unethical. After her plans to out a U.S. senator's homosexual relationship with... [More]
Starring: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi, Gary Dourdan
Director: James Foley
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Reviews for Perfect Stranger
Top CriticA rarely suspenseful thriller with a twist ending of the worst kind: It takes too much explanation.
05/28/07
Top CriticThe movie would perhaps like to say something serious about the ease with which modern communications allows us to be multiple personalities, but that effort is lost in ineptitude.
04/24/07
Top CriticIts shiny plastic glamour serves to endorse the very phoniness it ought to be warning us about.
04/13/07
Top CriticPeople with access to vital information just show up when the movie needs them, then vanish again.
04/13/07
Top CriticFor those who are interested in Berry as both an actress and screen presence, this is one of the most satisfying films she has ever made. It capitalizes on her strengths and she owns the picture, from start to finish.
04/13/07
Top CriticThat's right, it's a techno thriller that treats the already clichéd topic of Web abuse with an idiotic sense of discovery.
04/13/07
Top CriticLayered with improbable plot twists and hypocritical commentary, the movie is lurid and outdated when it wants to be hip and provocative.
04/13/07
Top CriticNothing can quite top the climax, which arbitrarily assigns a culprit in a way that makes you question almost every single thing that's transpired up to that point. And no, that's not a good thing in this case.
04/13/07
Top CriticPeople peek through windows, hack into computers and sneak into apartments without the slightest hesitation. We're guilty of voyeurism, too, since the primary pleasure to be found is in seeing three confident leads play off each other.
04/13/07
Top CriticPerfect Stranger isn't great art by any stretch, or even art by any stretch, but it is perfectly functional low-to-middlebrow entertainment -- a B movie at ease inside its own gaudy skin.
04/13/07
Top CriticOne of those formulaic thrillers loaded with a whole lot more plot than common sense.
04/13/07
Top CriticEveryone behaves like characters who are motivated not by emotion or logic, but the to and fro of a remote control or joystick.
04/13/07
Top CriticPerfect Stranger soon begins to look like another setback for Berry.
04/13/07
Top CriticPerfect Stranger, the new thriller starring Halle Berry and Bruce Willis, is far from perfect and, lame as it is, not quite lousy enough to pan with joy.
04/13/07
Top CriticJust when you thought The Reaping was the most convoluted and overwrought flashback-riddled thriller starring an Academy Award-winning actress in theaters, along comes Perfect Stranger.
04/13/07
Top CriticA laughably overheated thriller from the once promising James Foley.
04/13/07
Top CriticEven after it lurches from the far-fetched into the preposterous, Perfect Stranger leaves a clammy residue of unease.
04/13/07
Top CriticThere's a vast, possibly bottomless pit reserved for thrillers that are neither good nor bad enough to be truly entertaining, and James Foley's Perfect Stranger tumbles right into it.
04/12/07
Top CriticLife is full of choices, and Halle Berry has made another bad one with Perfect Stranger, a perfectly off-putting thriller.
04/12/07
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