The movie shows that the only thing worse than a generically screwy thriller is one with a selective narrator -- and one that doesn’t give viewers a fair chance to play along.
06/23/07 03:40 AM
Perfect Stranger (2007)
10 %
Reviews Counted: 137 Fresh: 14 Rotten:123 Average Rating: 3.5/10
Rated: 15
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Theatrical Release: 13-04-2007
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 an intern are thwarted, Price's next chance at a big scoop falls right into her lap. When her... [More]
Genre: Thriller, Murder, Reporters, Internet, Dating
Starring: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi, Gary Dourdan, Patti D'Arbanville
Director: James Foley
Screenwriter: Todd Komarnicki, Jon Bokenkamp
Producer: Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas
Composer: Antonio Pinto
Screenwriter: Todd Komarnicki, Jon Bokenkamp
Producer: Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas
Composer: Antonio Pinto
Reviews
Top Critic There is entertainment to be had here, but it's mostly at the expense of the film's rambling, increasingly ridiculous plot.
04/17/07 03:15 AM
Top Critic Instead of eroticism, there is tacky sub-porn; instead of twists, there are knotty plot problems which may or may not have been fixable with script rewrites.
04/14/07 03:39 AM
Top Critic
The ridiculously convoluted plot is even fairly good fun to follow, right up to the genuinely surprising finale.
04/12/07 08:33 AM
Watchable but ultimately frustrating thriller due to its unsympathetic characters, a dodgy script and an overdose of red herrings.
04/12/07 03:15 AM
A twist-burdened techno-thriller that would be by-the-numbers if it could count.
04/11/07 07:18 PM
Top Critic Columbia seems to be on a one-studio mission to revive that very '90s of film genres, the erotic thriller--or are they determined to kill it off for good, considering such poor efforts as this listless Halle Berry vehicle?
09/05/07 09:26 AM
A big cheat because virtually nothing of what happens in the first 100 minutes would ever really have happened if the truth that's exposed in the final few minutes was true.
08/10/07 11:58 AM
Top Critic While Perfect Stranger had its moments and wisely made its characters less than perfect, it was a pedestrian yarn better suited for the small screen than the silver one.
06/25/07 12:24 PM
While it begins dully enough for an investigative thriller, Perfect Stranger quickly skids off into abject foolishness.
05/30/07 06:10 PM
A rarely suspenseful thriller with a twist ending of the worst kind: It takes too much explanation.
05/28/07 03:15 AM
Un thriller más bien mediocre, inverosímil y rebuscado que pretende sorprender al espectador con una vuelta de tuerca final... igualmente mediocre, inverosímil y rebuscada.
05/23/07 02:38 PM
Although the movie makes a case for its ending, taking you by the hand and walking you through the stink of all its red herrings, the effort is wasted. Ro sounds like roe for a reason, and the logic behind this film was fishy from the start.
05/01/07 11:03 AM
Even Berry's bodacious bod (the woman is blessed with some really good genes) isn't distraction enough to make Perfect Stranger palatable.
04/28/07 03:41 AM
It's a movie that exists to showcase an actor more than it exists to be a movie.
04/25/07 09:53 AM
The 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 07:02 PM
Top Critic Loses its point about balancing different identities through the increasingly ludicrous twists and intense overacting
04/24/07 07:56 AM
A B movie with a bland title, histrionic acting and a ridiculous twist ending.
04/21/07 03:39 AM
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