Perfect Strangers (2003)

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

I pick up two rentals , one being a classic In the Mouth of Madness and the other this one. Somehow these two movies go hand in hand. Unfortunately your likely to fall asleep watching Perfect Strangers. One reviewer says it's unsettling. And that's how I'd probably put it. It flows (unlike Forgotten, ) but it's also utterly boring. Hence I'm not sure if I wanna sleep now or have a fit of a nitemare. It's like okay.. so... she killed him. Then she went nuts. He was already nuts? Oh well. I'm not sure I'd paste this as a great Sam Neill film. He seems older in this movie and boring and depressing wasn't my idea of a good time. Nor was it entertaining. Think I'll go jump off the dock now. :(5/10Quality: 7/10 Entertainment: 1/10 Replayable: 0/10

I'm not sure what this film is really about but I don't think that it's any of the comments that I've read.There are a number of items to consider. The island appears to be both tropical (palm trees) and cold - the woman is dressed for cold and looks cold.When the woman arrives and awakes, her clothes are there, none of the guy's clothes are around......all of her clothes are around.When she tries to escape, the boat is first at low tide, then afloat at high tide when she succeeds. I'm sure that there's a message there somewhere.She can't operate the boat radio, then she navigates it as a captain.The old flame that reappears....is he killed when she uses the rifle? Are one or both of the men aspects of her personality? He takes and clearly enjoys the candlelit bath.

It starts like a conventional girl-goes-home-with-the-wrong-man-horror. After a while it is almost relation comedy and psycho drama and relation comedy again.You miss the traditional agenda here. This is perhaps a form experiment, mixing genres. But the mix is not done in a clever way. You expect something to happen, a real climax, but it never comes and you are slowly getting uninterested.This kind of genre mixing can be exciting, but the actors here are not capable of fulfilling the director's intentions. A failure and not a very good one.

I liked this movie (or at least I think so... I'm not quite sure). It's very strange, but funny.Maybe it's the best role in which I've seen Sam Neill, even though I believe he doesn't convince completely in that scene in which he gets rough and hit the girl.In the other hand she does a good job (and during all the movie!!): I liked it, despite she's not very famous here in Spain. It's the first of her movies I have heard... The best: The end (frightening!)