Perfect Stranger (2007)

Strong and Moving!

Pretty Good

Excellent adaptation.

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

The cast was promising - the stars of this are Bruce Willis as Harrison and Halle Berry as Ro - and the story seemed mildly interesting. Ro's friend is murdered, and Ro tries to figure out who the killer is, suspecting a guy that her friend was having an anonymous internet romance with. OK. Like I said - it seemed promising. But it turned out to be dreadfully dull for most of its runtime.It starts with an actual interesting story about Ro (an investigative reporter) confronting a US Senator about a sex scandal. But that turns out to have absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the movie. I guess it just establishes that Ro is a hotshot investigative reporter. OK. You could have just told us that. Then her friend gets murdered and she has to figure out who did it. So we spend a huge amount of time watching Ro pretending to be someone else, sending online messages to "ADEX," who she thinks is Harrison. Meanwhile Ro's friend Miles is some sort of tech wizard who spends a lot of his time hacking. Is this serious? Even in 2007 online romances and hacking would have seemed a bit dated. But by 2017? Let's just say that this ten year old movie already seems much older. But I get the sense that the viewer is supposed to be dazzled by this high tech wizardry. The movie meanders and sputters along, with none of it being especially interesting. Then - after 75-80 minutes of boredom, it's as if writer Todd Komarnicki suddenly realized that the script was a dud and filled the last 20- 25 minutes with no fewer than three plot twists. So we go from the killer that the whole movie had suggested, to a new killer, only to find that the old killer was really the killer, only to discover that there was actually a different killer. My mind had gone numb by this point. For the record - plot twist # 1 (which dealt with Miles' relationship with Ro) was the most interesting, and plot twist # 3 (which revealed the real killer) was, I confess, totally unexpected. But, still, you can't save a movie that's been boring for almost an hour and a half with plot twist after plot twist after plot twist. Komarnicki also gives us a lot of unnecessary backstory about Ro's childhood and her abusive father and he throws in the "f" word a lot. In my experience overuse of the "f" word is a sure sign that a writer knows he's written a dud, and rather than actually fixing the script he throws in the "f" word as much as possible, apparently thinking that prolific use of the "f" word will make a movie seem hard-hitting and exciting. (Memo to all script writers: IT DOESN'T WORK!!) Not a movie I would recommend at all. (4/10)

One can only wonder why ? If money was really good, then why should loving something good be evil ? One might as well say God is good but loving God is evil, which is blasphemous to say the least. If this remark suggests that being good is irrelevant, inconsequential and immaterial, then why should God have to be good ? and why should you expect him to be so ? and why should you have to try to be like God ? The angry vociferation, "Money is the root of all evil", wrongfully dismissed as a misreading, uttered by one badly bitten and badly burnt by money clearly rings more true and is more trenchant and more poignant than the very same yet subtle insinuation contained in the biblical apophthegm. The fact that you would sooner damn love than damn money, clearly tells me what you secretly love and would rather have, and most certainly cannot do without. Is God so inadequate in himself that he now has to need the use of money to save ? Is God greater than money or is money greater than God ? The actress & scriptwriter of this movie clearly deserve all of your awards, all of your accolades, not to mention all of your material assets as well.

PERFECT STRANGERThis movie is about a woman who finds out that her friend was having an affair with an important married business man, but when she threatened to go to his wife she was found dead. So now she is investigating her death and trying to find the evidence that he killed her to keep his secret.This thriller is actually quite good. It kept me guessing all the way through the movie as to who was the actual killer. There were a lot of twists and turns that I was not expecting. As thrillers go this was not very predictable. I thought I knew who did it most of the way through the film, but it tricked me well.The acting was really good throughout by everyone. The movie stars Halle Berry, Bruce Willis and Giovanni Ribisi. Halle did an amazing job. Her character was so colourful and strong. She played it very convincing. You can see why she is an Oscar winner. Bruce also did a good job playing the businessman that is being accused. But Giovanni is such a good actor that he seems to be very good in everything that he does.The movie had some good action sequences, but was more about getting you thinking. The only thing I was disappointed with was the ending. Don't get me wrong, I liked it… and it was a very interesting twist that I did not see coming at all… but it just felt like the twist at the end was added for extra shock. It didn't need the twist at the end and it felt forced into the story. Can understand why they did it, but I just think it would have been perfectly fine if it was not stretched.I enjoyed this movie and thought it was better than some other thrillers.I will give this film 7 out of 10."A very famous man once said that sincerity is everything. Once you learn to fake that, the rest is easy."For more reviews, please like my Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ordinary-Person-Movie- Reviews/456572047728204?ref=hl

Perfect Stranger is a neo-noir psychological thriller film that stars Halle Berry and Bruce Willis together with Giovanni Ribisi,Florencia Lozano, Jason Antoon and Patti D'Arbanville. It is about a hard-nosed star reporter learns who her real friends are and gets in way over her head while investigating a murder.It was directed by James Foley.Rowena is a prominent New York journalist who writes using a pseudonym to entrap some of the tri-state area's most corrupt individuals, using a network of informants, acquaintances, and digital gadgets. When her latest exposé is buried at the behest of her paper's corporate backers, she walks off the job and into a personal quagmire. Her childhood friend Grace is murdered when she threatens to reveal she's been sleeping with married advertising mogul Harrison Hill. With the help of her loyal tech expert friend Miles, she goes undercover to find the smoking gun that will indict Hill. But Rowena soon finds herself caught in a web of manipulation, deceit, and false truths as she suspects Hill of the crime.She goes undercover by posing as two highly alluring women: Katherine, a sexy temp who works within his agency, and Veronica, a seductive temptress he chats up online.Engaging in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, both Rowena and Hill begin to realize things may not be what they seem. For some people will go to great lengths to protect their secrets, even if it means risking everything.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.What's worse,despite the presence of Halle Berry and Bruce Willis, its plot is too convoluted to work, and features a twist ending that's irritating and superfluous. It suffers from being a techno-thriller without thrills.