Perfect Stranger (2007)

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• Dead A

  
  The twist was great but I didn't liked the story. Not my taste I guess.

• Bethany M

  
  Great thriller! Definitely didn't expect the ending and had me intrigued all the way through. A great film! A must see!

• ♥Robyn

  
  When her friends affair with married exec Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis) ends in the womans murder, investigative reporter Rowena Price ( Halle Berry) vows to bring the killer to justice. Suspecting Hill of the crime, she goes undercover by posing as two highly alluring women.… More
  When her friends affair with married exec Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis) ends in the womans murder, investigative reporter Rowena Price ( Halle Berry) vows to bring the killer to justice. Suspecting Hill of the crime, she goes undercover by posing as two highly alluring women. Katherine, a sexy temp who works within his agency, and Veronica, a seductive temptress he chats up online. Engaging in a dangerous game of cat and mouse, both Rowena and Hill begin to realize things may not be what they seem. For some people will go to great lengths to protect their secrets, even if it means risking everything.

• Luke B

  
  Why is it some scripts result in predictable, cheesy, made-for-tv hokum. Whilst something like Perfect Stranger, manages to attract big name stars to take down aboard it's sinking ship? Probably completed before Berry or Willis' cheques were even cashed, this rushed… More
  Why is it some scripts result in predictable, cheesy, made-for-tv hokum. Whilst something like Perfect Stranger, manages to attract big name stars to take down aboard it's sinking ship? Probably completed before Berry or Willis' cheques were even cashed, this rushed paint-by-numbers thriller is only saved by an unexpected ending. Don't confuse unexpected with good, it was just nice to be caught off guard by something so formulaic. It's easy to forget that Willis is a great actor and huge star, in this film. He's painfully dull and uninteresting. Berry's performance isn't awful, nor is it anything to care about. Ribisi is his excellent self, even if his role as an obsessed and creepy, but not dangerous, colleague could have been the focus of a worthwhile movie.

• Dean L

  
  Sometimes a movie tries so hard to twist and turn that it comes out straight as an arrow. Convoluted, overwrought with contrived moments of tension, this movie fell flat. I adore Giovanni Ribisi and his performance was superb. Bruce Willis is also a favorite and he played his part… More
  Sometimes a movie tries so hard to twist and turn that it comes out straight as an arrow. Convoluted, overwrought with contrived moments of tension, this movie fell flat. I adore Giovanni Ribisi and his performance was superb. Bruce Willis is also a favorite and he played his part quite well. Halle Berry...what the...where...she was boring, tired and simply uninteresting. Her performance was so detached from the character that it was painful to watch. I am not sure if this was something that was intentional given the plot (the very...thin...plot) or simply that she phoned it in, but it was not fun to view. So obvious in its machinations. The technology employed to make the story move was ridiculous. Twirling around and around and going nowhere, the viewer becomes dizzy stuck in the mire of planted confusion-I will stop here. This is fun to watch for Ribisi and Willis' performances. Berry is stunning, as always, but embarrassing to watch in this. Save your evening for something better unless you simply have to see these actors in motion or slow motion anyway.

• Ginny  

  
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• familiar s

  
  Missable

• Lewis C

  
  Boring, with an arbitrary and utterly ridiculous twist thrown in at the end. Still, i don't regret seeing it. It's always worthwhile to see Halle Berry poured into a tight dress :-)

• Josh L

  
  It's mildly entertaining when Bruce Willis is on screen, but otherwise it just doesn't cut it. The ending is one of the worst I have ever seen in my life. I can't believe how stupid it was. It's not like the movie was good before the ending, but it was bareable.… More
  It's mildly entertaining when Bruce Willis is on screen, but otherwise it just doesn't cut it. The ending is one of the worst I have ever seen in my life. I can't believe how stupid it was. It's not like the movie was good before the ending, but it was bareable. After the ending, I was shaking my head in shame for watching this piece of junk.

• Eric S

  
  Halle Berry plays an investigative reporter that learns her friend's murder might be connected to a powerful ad executive. She goes undercover with the help of her associate as things begin to reveal how far people will go to protect the truth; not only from others, but from… More
  Halle Berry plays an investigative reporter that learns her friend's murder might be connected to a powerful ad executive. She goes undercover with the help of her associate as things begin to reveal how far people will go to protect the truth; not only from others, but from themselves.

• Lady D

  
  A very enjoyable, non too complicated, whodunnit type of film, with a good twist.

• Dean !

  
  Surprised at some of the reviews I have seen for this? I thought this was a very good thriller with a very good twist, for once that you can't see coming right from the start of the film. Maybe it's a bit slow to start with but has one of the best endings for a thriller… More
  Surprised at some of the reviews I have seen for this? I thought this was a very good thriller with a very good twist, for once that you can't see coming right from the start of the film. Maybe it's a bit slow to start with but has one of the best endings for a thriller I've seen in recent years! Go check it out!!

• Morgan S

  
  not bad

• Bannan i

  
  After Halle Berry's 'Gothika' fiasco....I was hesitant...but the Bruce Willis factor kept me intrigued and Giovanni Ribsi is always phenomenal...all in all not too badly played out. Review tbc.

• Nate Z

  
  [CENTER][img]http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/204/photo03nn3.jpg[/img] [/CENTER] [COLOR=DarkRed][FONT=Arial]Perfect Stranger - What starts as a pretty poor thriller goes absurdly over the top by the tired Hollywood convention of a forced twist ending, and this one isn't… More
  [CENTER][img]http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/204/photo03nn3.jpg[/img] [/CENTER] [COLOR=DarkRed][FONT=Arial]Perfect Stranger - What starts as a pretty poor thriller goes absurdly over the top by the tired Hollywood convention of a forced twist ending, and this one isn't just forced, no, it contradicts everything that happened before it for 100 minutes. The movie piles up red herring after red herring trying to keep the audience guessing, but I think this is because [I]Perfect Stranger[/I] had no idea how to end and who would be deemed the killer. As a result, the hedging feels like a lousy board game of Clue until the awful, ludicrous, inconceivable twist ending. It's the kind of ending that is supposed to somehow make sense because the filmmakers flashed short bursts of a childhood incident that lacked context and clarity. [I]Perfect Stranger[/I] really has one of the worst twist endings of recent memory because it makes no sense and defies all logic. If the ending were right why would someone wait years upon years to plan a murder to hide something that seems inconsequential? Why does someone think their friend is a killer because their computer memory recalled that they visited a company website despite the fact that this person is a journalist and going undercover at this same company? And why, stupid Hollywood characters, do you recite how you've figured out their deeply convoluted plan to the murderer only to get murdered? Halle Berry gives a rather embarrassing performance; she's all over the map and I question much of her character's actions and anxiety, especially when seen ALONE, if the twist ending holds. [I]Perfect Stranger[/I] is ridiculous junk that tries to outsmart an audience by confusing them and then openly negating their story thanks to a twist ending that is intended to blow minds but will simply leave people scratching their heads and pitying everyone involved in this disposable dreck. And no, this has nothing to do with Cousin Larry and Balki. Nate's Grade: D Music and Lyrics - As bland and flavorless as the 1980s pop pap it hopes to skewer. For die-hard fans of the romantic comedy genre, there may be some minor level of enjoyment, but for the rest of us (those without ovaries) [I]Music and Lyrics[/I] is predictable to the end and Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore don't elicit any semblance of chemistry. The songwriting is noticeably a cut above thanks to Fountain of Wayne's bassist Adam Schlesinger writing them, but even the participation of one of my favorite bands can't make [I]Music and Lyrics[/I] worth seeing. The Duran Duran-esque music video that opens the film is a hoot and it all goes downhill from there, especially if you're like me and find it difficult to stand the cutesy baby act of Barrymore. Nate's Grade: C Wild Hogs - It's hard to imagine that this lowbrow, homophobic, uninspired, painfully nostalgic film is the top grossing comedy of the year so far. I don't really want to further elaborate on what this says about the general public. The boys (John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, a more random grouping of actors I challenge you to find) are all henpecked and unhappy with their dull, predictable, socially comfortable lives, so what's a group of men facing midlife crises to do? Road trip. The idea of the freedom of the open road and the rebelliousness of touring the country on the back of a motorcycle seems quaint and naïve at this point in life. What follows on their biker odyssey is a lot of lame slapstick and each actor trying to outdo the other in masculinity. A protracted third act standoff brings the film to a halt that it can never recuperate from. [I]Wild Hogs[/I] isn't a comedy disaster of sorts but it's definitely got enough aimless misogyny and retroactive Boomer nostalgia to make you gag. Nate's Grade: C- The Fountain - After six years of anticipation, I cannot escape my crushing disappointment with writer/director Darren Aronofsky's long-awaited follow-up to one of my favorite films, [I]Requiem for a Dream[/I]. While the film manages to be visually resplendent, there is no emotional involvement at all because of how abbreviated the story is. This thing barely covers 90 scant minutes and, this may be the first time I've ever said this, but [I]The Fountain[/I] needed to be an hour longer, minimum. The separate time frames bleed into each other and there's a lot of repetition, but then we discover that the cutaways to the 16th century and the visions of the LSD-heavy future are simply side trips detailed in a book. The real meat of the story is on one man losing the love of his life to illness and how they come to grips with eventual loss, however, I can't feel any empathy when he movie fails to take any time to set up characters. Aronofsky keeps things interesting, and rather weird, but this romantic fable ends up being nothing more than a misguided folly thanks to a total lack of breathing room for the characters to live. This was probably my single biggest disappointment of all the 2006 movies. Nate's Grade: C- The Black Dahlia - Hey, I got an idea. How about we make a Black Dahlia movie and hardly involve anything having to do with the notorious Black Dahlia murder? I've got an even better idea; let's center the action around a love triangle involving cops who are, say it with me, too close to the case. And then we'll have a wacked out rich family where the mother (Fiona Shaw, God forgive her) gives a performance that isn't three-sheets-to-the-wind drunk, she is staggering, cataclysmically, powerfully, off-the-wall drunk. Watching her sway and sneer and hiccup is like watching Daffy Duck in this Brian DePalma mess. The central actors feel too young for their parts (the best actor is Mia Kirshner, seen briefly in an audition reel as the soon to be eviscerated Elizabeth Short), and the ending is an insipid caper to an ongoing, unsolved murder mystery. [I]The Black Dahlia [/I]is appallingly boring and yet also appallingly dimwitted, but it does occasionally look good thanks to the technical proficiency of its director. DePalma has had a very up and down career. Consider this one of his valleys. Nate's Grade: D[/FONT][/COLOR]

• Drew S

  
  Graduated first in its class at the High Tension School of Unnecessary Twist Endings. Up until the ludicrous final ten minutes, Perfect Stranger is an entirely functional thriller, chugging along with enough momentum to keep things vaguely interesting. Thriller may be something of a… More
  Graduated first in its class at the High Tension School of Unnecessary Twist Endings. Up until the ludicrous final ten minutes, Perfect Stranger is an entirely functional thriller, chugging along with enough momentum to keep things vaguely interesting. Thriller may be something of a misnomer, because there isn't very much suspense, not even in watching Berry's ridiculous AOL sex talk unfold. The movie is weighty with exposition, and it shows; it seeps into the dialogue at every chance it gets, making things seem awfully premeditated. For what it's worth, though, I didn't think it was that bad until its climax. Our three leads give across the board decent performances, but they just can't keep this ridiculous ship afloat. Destined to be relegated to utter obscurity.

• Al S

  
  one of the worst movies ever. Berry is neither compelling or appealing. Just an all out bore

• Craig S

  
  <b><u>Directed by:</u> James Foley.</b> <b><u>Starring:</u> Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi.</b> Where do films like this get off? It seems like every week I see a film like this, that aims to be a compelling thriller by… More
  <b><u>Directed by:</u> James Foley.</b> <b><u>Starring:</u> Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi.</b> Where do films like this get off? It seems like every week I see a film like this, that aims to be a compelling thriller by following that same Hollywood formula over and over, this film is one of those..... Well in some ways, this will be the only thing I will mention in this review that I liked about the film and that was the ending.....I don't mean the film ending (not really), but the way the twist plays out, it successfully twists around it's characters to make quite a surprising twist that could have worked so much more....if it had not been for the first 90 minutes being so dull. Terribly dull in fact, the pacing is thrown off in the first 20 minutes by being way too unfocused and badly edited, from there, the films follows a very familiar formula with thin characters, a lack of focus on them, terrible dialogue and any potential thrills are thrown away and the filmmakers attempt to make a sexy thriller, but with cheap sex related dialogue and no sexiness....as soon as the final 20 minutes of film arrived, I just didn't care, even the acting couldn't save the film, although Giovanni Ribisi does help save his character with a great performance, he is rarely on screen and instead, we are endured with Halle Berry's most hilariously bad performance since Catwoman and Bruce Willis' stiff performance. An inventive ending, I will give it that, but any potential from that ending is ruined by a very unfocused, dull and badly written first 90 minutes.

• danny d

  
  this was a decent film. i was into it the entire way through and some of the characters had a believable realism to them, but ultimately the end just missed something. this is a shocking ending to a film where nothing is as it seems, but elements of the unfolding of that ending… More
  this was a decent film. i was into it the entire way through and some of the characters had a believable realism to them, but ultimately the end just missed something. this is a shocking ending to a film where nothing is as it seems, but elements of the unfolding of that ending bothered me a bit.

• Roy G

  
  A psychological thriller in which both the psychology and the thrills are in short supply.

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