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Reviews Counted:138
Fresh:15
Rotten:123
Average Rating:3.5/10
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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As far as Hollywood thrillers go, Perfect Stranger starts well with an interesting melee of characters and seductive close ups of the shapely Miss Berry. As Berry's Ro gets close and personal with Bruce Willis' ad-man Harrison Hill, the script turns feral
Screenwriters Todd Komarnicki and Jon Bokenkamp provide a script with enough foreseeable twists and turns that, if it were an actual road, a blind person wouldn't have any difficulty handling it.
Hear ye, hear ye. Films don't always have to be revolutionary slice-of-life cinematic art. Sometimes they can just be cheesy, nonsensical fun. Like Perfect Stranger.
Even when the plot spins its wheels while waiting to reveal itself, there's still plenty of atmosphere and a fairly decent performance from Berry.
Its shiny plastic glamour serves to endorse the very phoniness it ought to be warning us about.
Top CriticReportedly, several endings were filmed; perhaps some of them make more sense than this one.
People with access to vital information just show up when the movie needs them, then vanish again.
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.
Top CriticThe only reason this movie might not win any Razzies next year is because no one will remember it even came out.
A Halle Berry-Bruce Willis vehicle fresh as a Commodore 64.
Willis and Berry's joint star power makes their exchanges at least moderately interesting. But their characters' supposed banter never reaches wittiness, and the cat-and-mouse angle is too mild.
Top CriticThat's right, it's a techno thriller that treats the already clichéd topic of Web abuse with an idiotic sense of discovery.
Top CriticMore silly than suspenseful, this sleekly produced, high gloss piece of trash isn't quite in the so-bad-it's-good category of schlock films, but it comes mighty close, thanks to a gonzo twist of an ending.
There's a good thriller to be made one day about the way the Internet both reveals and disguises its users, but this isn't it.
The weak mystery story massages you into indifference, then tries to clock you with one fungo bat of a loopy twist that leaves you questioning not reality, but why you just spent 109 minutes trying to give a darn.
Layered with improbable plot twists and hypocritical commentary, the movie is lurid and outdated when it wants to be hip and provocative.
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.
Top CriticEvincing a style that might best be described as deliciously retarded, it's sort of like discovering that an old friend has placed you on a spam mailing list.
People 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.
What's really irritating about Perfect Stranger is not how bad it is, but how close it came to being good.
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