Lee Eisenberg
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.
Jake Outman
This movie was made with three different endings one for each of the three main characters. It is full of Red Herrings, making you believe one ending when it is really another. The movie is actually rather humbling, you believe that you have figured it out 20 minutes into the beginning when you really haven't. I and was surprised by the ending feel rather dumb being so.That being said, the movie isn't great. It is in an area that makes you creeped out but not creeped out enough to be entertained. It is unnecessarily vulgar at times. It also seems that they dragged it out in an ill-fated attempt to make it more successful.I do want to give this film so credit where it is due. Director James Foley and lead actress Halle Berry have a pretty good performances considering the weak script. This movie is worth a watch if you are a fan of Halle Berry and/or suspense dramas.
GManfred
Website users were awfully tough on this one. I thought it was a good mystery - a mysterious mystery, which is not redundant. Think of all the movies that are passed off as mysteries but are not, uh, mysterious. For instance, "Dial M For Murder", in which the murderer is known throughout the picture. This one is absorbing and holds your interest for the entire hour and 50 minutes.Most users rehash the plot in their review, so to cut to the chase, this is Halle Berry's picture from start to finish and she does a great job as a journalist trying to break a big story. The first story fizzles out but the next one involves Bruce Willis as an Ad exec who she suspects is responsible for a murder. Her cohort and pal is Giovanni Ribisi, who gets better each time out. Willis, on the other hand, phones his part in and seems bored.This movie reportedly has several different endings and the CD I saw seemed to also. I thought the ending I saw was somewhat contrived, so much so that you couldn't see it coming. But I thought that's what made it interesting and absorbing, as mentioned above.
BatBanks Smith
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.
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