Perfect Stranger (2007)

disgusting, overrated, pointless

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

This is a suspense thriller with the quality of mediocre tv series. Well at least, this was my impression in the first hour or so. Through its normal flow, the movie has already been limping with bad acting, pedestrian directing and haphazard editing of a drab story but the pathetic twist at the end topped it all. Some mystery fans like to guess plot twists from small clues of unfolding events. There's no way one can predict this one which totally turns upside down the whole plot on its head. But make no mistake. This is not a praise for the scriptwriter who apparently got carried away in his attempt to challenge those predictors instead of writing a coherent story. After the final plot which came out of nowhere, nothing you've seen until that time makes sense in this miserable dreck. Avoid it at all cost unless you take pleasure in your intelligence being insulted.

This movie is in some way one of my guilty pleasures because I always feel good when I'm watching it. The movie brings something new to the thriller genre. It's that feeling you get that makes you want more of it and to be honest I can't understand why the other reviews for this movie are so bad. The plot was great but the twist at the end was a little to much for me too; but not to the point at which I will give the movie a 1/2 out of 10. Leaving all that a side let's talk a little bit about the plot of this movie, no spoilers ahead, so don't worry. Rowena is a girl who works for a local newspaper and she has the job of bringing the secrets of the famous people to light. One day, she is given the task to prove that a very wealthy man (Harrison) is having numerous affairs with different women, one of those being her friend Grace who wants to bring the case of Harrison to light with the help of her friend. Soon, we discover many hidden secrets that lie behind every person that takes part in the story, that being one of the best parts of "Perfect Stranger". Go watch this movie in the near future and I can say that you won't be disappointed. You will probably be disappointed by the ending but the rest is pretty much great. 8/10

Perfect Stranger is one of this movies that revisits some often-used (some might say overused) plot involving a high-wheeled corporate person and somebody looking to prove herself and cast away her own demons by engaging in a truth-seeking overture that becomes more than what she had originally signed up for. It is not exactly an innovative opening line, but one that has yielded good movies last 10-12 years.The movie has some serious good acting, especially on he part of Giovanni Ribisi, who proved himself in a role more complex and mature than what he's most known for coming up with on recent years. It also has some subtle but ingenious references to The Devil Wears Prada that are quite easy to notice if you paid attention to the latter. However, the editing has left many loose ties. Some characters have their construction reversed in a manner that appears totally disconnected from the plot. We can try see through the ambiguity of some characters to wonder into their minds, but that doesn't happen at all except for Halle's character (Rowena Price). A couple plot sequences are badly knitted, giving a feeling of like of plot cohesion, and not on the positive way. This is where good acting and a decent story line are clearly lost on bad editing.

Perfect Stranger is about a investigative reporter (Halle Berry) investigations her childhood friend murder and suspect an ad executive (Bruce Willis) who she met online and was having affair with the murderer. With the help of her computer friend (Giovani Ribisi), she developing false identities as both an ad temp and an online flirt, allowing her to completely surround her prey. Is he really the killer? Perfect Stranger was a great thriller, this was Halle Berry best performance. This movie should been a novel, it has twist and turn and has surprise ending. If you enjoy this movie I recommended you to watch Fracture (2007) with Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling a another thriller mystery with twist and turn and surprise ending.