A cheesy affair that casts so many baited lures that they tangle each other and don't hook you.
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04/12/07
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Perfect Stranger (2007)
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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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Reviews for Perfect Stranger
Top CriticThe convoluted resolution to the murder mystery suggests the filmmakers were simply making it up as they filmed. And judging by her listless, almost blase performance, Berry appears to be bored by the material.
04/12/07
It's so bad it needs new words for bad.
04/12/07
It might be selling itself as a "sexy thriller," but the cheesy, smirk-inducing reality is that Perfect Stranger would have been on the direct-to-DVD fast track had it not been for the names Halle Berry and Bruce Willis above the title.
04/12/07
Top CriticWhat's next? 'Growing Pain'? 'Family Tie'? Any of those would probably be better (though not funnier) than this.
04/12/07
By the time everything falls into place, it doesn't much matter. The best thrillers don't just show up for the closing credits, they are involving all along the way. That's where Perfect Stranger goes imperfectly wrong.
04/12/07
Top CriticA great thriller should be the model of simplicity. Perfect Stranger, like so many other thrillers nowadays, is often complicated just for the sake of being complicated. This more-is-better approach isn't more, and it isn't better.
04/12/07
This stupidly contrived thriller is all the more disappointing if you admire previous work by Berry and director James Foley.
04/12/07
Top CriticConsidering the twirliness of the story, this is a fairly straightforward film that knows where it's going and how to get there. And there's much to be admired in that.
04/12/07
Pink is the new black, 50 is the new 30 and, at the movies, confusion is the new suspense.
04/12/07
Top CriticAll the hip technology, including e-mail hacking, tiny portable USB devices and fake IM accounts, is supposed to make us feel disoriented by the modern lack of face-to-face communication, but it feels played out and overexplained.
04/12/07
While the story becomes dauntingly complex as it goes, the finale resolves its multiple mysteries seamlessly. Perfect Stranger is the kind of polished diversion that the big studios should deliver twice a month, but don't.
04/12/07
The murder clues are trotted out in dishonestly protracted fashion by screenwriter Todd Komarnicki, who plants red herrings as malodorous as a fish market at 5 in the morning.
04/12/07
Top CriticDespite the presence of the luminous Berry, Perfect Stranger is really just another thriller, utterly disposable, in town for a few desultory weeks until it heads off to a mild afterlife on DVD and then richly deserved oblivion.
04/12/07
Top CriticStraddles the line between intrigue and blandness until it decides it's had enough and just sort of peters out.
04/12/07
Complex and convoluted, to say the least.
04/12/07
You won't react to any of the sleaze--like going to a strip club right after taking a knee to the crotch.
04/12/07
Stranger isn't as bold as Basic Instinct, which was all about goofing on what voyeurs moviegoers are. The performers are too solemn (only Giovanni Ribisi, as a creepy reporter, seems to be having fun) for starters.
04/12/07
Perfect Stranger is Halle Berry's latest descent into career purgatory.
04/12/07
Fairly diverting until it starts becoming ridiculous.
04/12/07
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