Loses its point about balancing different identities through the increasingly ludicrous twists and intense overacting
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04/24/07
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.
US Box Office: $23,705,592
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
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04/20/07
Top CriticAs far as Hollywood thrillers go, Perfect Stranger starts well with an interesting melee of characters and seductive close ups of the shapely Miss Berry. As Berry's Ro gets close and personal with Bruce Willis' ad-man Harrison Hill, the script turns feral
04/13/07
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05/13/09
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
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
This one's DOA.
07/09/07
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
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
While it begins dully enough for an investigative thriller, Perfect Stranger quickly skids off into abject foolishness.
05/30/07
A rarely suspenseful thriller with a twist ending of the worst kind: It takes too much explanation.
05/28/07
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
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05/03/07
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
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
It's a movie that exists to showcase an actor more than it exists to be a movie.
04/25/07
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
A B movie with a bland title, histrionic acting and a ridiculous twist ending.
04/21/07
A snake bit concept from the very beginning.
04/21/07
...an ideal film for suspense audiences.
04/20/07
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