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Perfect Stranger

Perfect Stranger (2007)

April. 19,2007
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5.7
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R
| Thriller Crime Mystery

A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.

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Rio Hayward
2007/04/19

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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Jenna Walter
2007/04/20

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

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Matylda Swan
2007/04/21

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

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Billy Ollie
2007/04/22

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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The Couchpotatoes
2007/04/23

Mystery/crime are one of my favorite kind of movies. Trying to figure out what is happening, playing detective from your couch. With Perfect Stranger I thought I figured everything out from the beginning and I was completely wrong. Didn't see it coming at all, and that what makes a movie like this one better then others in the same genre. I never have been a big fan of Halle Berry, besides her obvious beauty she's not that of a great actress, but in Perfect Stranger she's okay. Not the greatest though, just okay. The storyline is more then okay, full of intrigues and twists until the end. You won't be bored for a second watching this movie. I don't really get why people are watching this kind of movies if they don't like it to begin with. I hate musicals so I just don't watch them, simple as that. Deserves more then it's actual rating.

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Lee Eisenberg
2007/04/24

James Foley's "Perfect Stranger" has an interesting plot but comes out flat. This story of a reporter going after a businessman gets severely weakened by the blatant product placement. Halle Berry and Bruce Willis starred in better movies before this (she in "Bulworth" and "Monster's Ball", he in "The Fifth Element" and "The Sixth Sense") have starred in better movies since this (she in "Movie 43", he in "Moonrise Kingdom").The truth is, I wish that there were movies based on books. For example, Kim Stanley Robinson's "Years of Rice and Salt" needs to get filmed. There also needs to be a movie about the 1811 slave uprising in Louisiana.Oh, and Errol Brown? He was the lead singer of Hot Chocolate, which did "You Sexy Thing" (played during the fashion show in "Perfect Stranger"). He recently died.

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blanche-2
2007/04/25

Halle Berry stars with Bruce Willis and Giovanni Ribisi in "Perfect Stranger," a 2007 film directed by James Foley.Berry plays Rowena Price, a writer who goes by the name of David Shane and finds salacious stories for her newspaper. When a particularly hot story is quashed by her boss, she quits. On her way home, she runs into a childhood friend, Grace (Nicki Aycox), whom she's not too happy to see. Grace gives her a bunch of emails from Harrison Hill, a famous, powerful ad executive, married to money. Grace has been in a chat room with him; they finally met and had a hot time together. Grace takes the emails but seems annoyed by the whole encounter.When Grace winds up dead, Rowena gets a temp job in Hill's office and, with the help of a friend from her old job, Miles (Ribisi), she starts investigating Hill, whom she believes killed Grace.Other than the fact that Berry is a knockout, one would walk away from this film asking how she won an Oscar and who wrote and directed this thing. The script is all over the place (for good reason - it turns out there were three different endings) and it's badly directed. For some reason, it also has a cheap feel to it.Kathleen Chalfont plays Grace's mother - she's a well respected, brilliant stage actress who has about one minute of screen time, and it was fun to see Patti D'Arbanville again as someone who works for Hill.Bruce Willis and Berry exhibited no real chemistry. Willis in this film is 52; Berry is around 41 but could pass for early thirties. She seems a little young for him.We really don't get to know much about these characters -- we pick up pieces of Rowena's past, but we don't learn enough about anyone else to make us care. Actually we don't really care all that much about Rowena except to see her next outfit.Disappointing. Given the talent involved, this should have been better.

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museumofdave
2007/04/26

I have noticed that a good deal of film criticism seems to have taken place before someone has even seen the film, that a hostile attitude is in place as the film begins, perhaps because of the star, perhaps the money paid, perhaps a reflection of the dismaying trend in politics to not engage, the attitude that the film has got to please in every way in a manner expected or it's bad.I mention this simply because there are a lot of things this suspense thriller is not. But there's much that it is, and it fooled me--and then fooled me again. Are you ever in the mood for a thriller? Just sort of good grade carnival ride that holds together and takes you to a world you never want to inhabit but love to watch for a few hours? This is not a great film by any means, but it is an efficiently made suspense tale that held together for me, anchored by convincing central performances, and without too much gratuitous gore or sophomoric attitude.Berry and Ribisi develop a strange friendship that holds them together in times of stress, and Bruce Willis walks through the film knowing you'll just watch Bruce Willis ambling smoothly through a film--but is he a killer or isn't he? This is a perfect popcorn movie to watch when you've had it with the political news, when you're worn out with too much reading, and you just want to cruise with some suspenseful action and feel you got your money's worth

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