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04/13/07
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: 15 [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Genre: Thriller, Murder, Reporters, Theatrical Release, Dating, Internet
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... [More]
Starring: Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi, Gary Dourdan
Director: James Foley
Reviews for Perfect Stranger
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.
04/13/07
What's really irritating about Perfect Stranger is not how bad it is, but how close it came to being good.
04/13/07
A psychological thriller in which both the psychology and the thrills are in short supply.
04/13/07
Perfect Stranger is so intent on fooling us with a last-minute 'gotcha' revelation that it ignores just about everything else that matters.
04/13/07
They're playing it too intense. This isn't that serious. It's just a murder mystery with a little sex (very little). That's an exploitation movie. Making it about internet chat doesn't give it social relevance.
04/13/07
A not-so-perfect 'sexual thriller' that is short on thrills and any semblance of logic.
04/13/07
A homogenized and entirely pre-packaged "thriller" that doesn't even bother doling out any "thrills."
04/13/07
Relentlessly cheesy, exhaustive and about as stimulating as a cold medicine tablet...In short, take this lofty advice and try not to talk to this particular Stranger.
04/13/07
With its sexual innuendos, red herrings tossed left and right, and illogic floating aimlessly, "Perfect Stranger" is another of those disposable thrillers that offer nothing in suspense and plenty in annoyance.
04/13/07
Fine up to a point.
04/13/07
An artifact from an alternate universe where Halle Berry and Bruce Willis star in 'Basic Instinct' rip-offs for Roger Corman's New Horizons Home Video company.
04/13/07
A film about secrets and lies, not to mention overacting and poor casting choices.
04/13/07
Perfect Stranger isn't great art by any stretch, or even art by any stretch, but it is perfectly functional low-to-middlebrow entertainment -- a B movie at ease inside its own gaudy skin.
04/13/07
One of those formulaic thrillers loaded with a whole lot more plot than common sense.
04/13/07
Everyone behaves like characters who are motivated not by emotion or logic, but the to and fro of a remote control or joystick.
04/13/07
Perfect Stranger soon begins to look like another setback for Berry.
04/13/07
Perfect Stranger, the new thriller starring Halle Berry and Bruce Willis, is far from perfect and, lame as it is, not quite lousy enough to pan with joy.
04/13/07
Just when you thought The Reaping was the most convoluted and overwrought flashback-riddled thriller starring an Academy Award-winning actress in theaters, along comes Perfect Stranger.
04/13/07
Top CriticA laughably overheated thriller from the once promising James Foley.
04/13/07
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