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Perfect Stranger
Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for sexual content, nudity, some disturbing violent images and language
Starring
Bruce Willis,
Halle Berry,
Giovanni Ribisi,
Gary Dourdan,
Clea Lewis,
Nicki Aycox,
Olja Hrustic,
and
Patti D'Arbanville
How far would you go to keep a secret? When investigative reporter Rowena Price (Berry) learns that her friend's murder might be connected to powerful ad executive Harrison Hill (Willis), she goes undercover with the help of her associate Miles Hailey (Ribisi). Posing as Katherine, a temp at Hill's agency, and Veronica, a girl Hill flirts with online, Rowena surrounds her prey from all sides, only to discover that she isn't the only one changing identities. The closer we get to learning the truth, the more we understand how far people will go to protect it. (Sony Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Todd Komarnicki
Jon Bokenkamp (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
James Foley
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: August 21, 2007
Theatrical: April 13, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
109 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
To see Perfect Stranger is to wish for a more sophisticated vehicle for a film actress this good, but actors -- and audiences -- take what they can get. This is better than most.

67
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Perfect Stranger is far from Hitchcock, and Berry, although she gets an A for effort, can't do much with the half-baked characterizations.

63
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Todd Komarnicki's screenplay relies heavily on red herrings and a host of suspects (there are more murderers swanning around Hill's sleek offices than there were aboard the Orient Express) to keep audiences distracted from what, in retrospect, is really pretty obvious.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Cliched, mostly routine and never especially satisfying.

58
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Instead of heightening the intrigue in this psychological thriller, the labored twists and out-of-leftfield turns will leave audiences more weary than wary.

50
Miami Herald
Carla Meyer
A rarely suspenseful thriller with a twist ending of the worst kind: It takes too much explanation.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Think you'd be happy watching Berry do little more than look beautiful? Perfect Stranger gives you plenty of opportunity to find out.

50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Perfect Stranger is one of those movies that two years, or two months, from now, you won't recall having seen. Ostensibly a movie about big secrets, it comes up with few that are worth keeping, or telling.

50
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
It is an acceptable enough thriller, neither the worst you've seen nor the opposite.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
It lacks the rutting nuttiness of "Basic Instinct," even as it recycles much of that film's kiss-or-kill premise.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
The only surprise here is the real star of the show, who turns out to be not Halle Berry, not even Bruce Willis, but a flat computer screen in all its hard-driven glory.

42
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Tasha Robinson
When the left-field ending finally arrives, it explains a lot, including why she's so off-putting and histrionic, but it never really explains why audiences should bother sitting through such a tangled mess.

42
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
Joins the growing list of blandly made erotic thrillers that contain no eroticism, few thrills and fewer likable characters.

40
Village Voice
Scott Foundas
Perfect Stranger derives some novelty value from its colorblind casting and from being the most ludicrously silly Hollywood f----fest since the Willis-starring "Color of Night" (minus that movie's comic self-awareness). But as a thriller, it's so by-the-numbers that it's hardly worth keeping count.

38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
A movie so inane that it fails to rise to the level of "good trash."

38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Perfect Stranger is the Egg MacGuffin of whodunits, a cheesy affair that casts so many baited lures that they tangle each other and don't hook you.

30
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
The fishy smell that permeates Perfect Stranger comes from all of the red herrings flopping around this absurdly plotted Hollywood thriller.

30
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Just another thriller, utterly disposable.

30
Variety
John Anderson
A disorienting cocktail of illogic and hysteria that requires an 11th-hour soliloquy just to explain what's happened.

30
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
The director, as he showed in movies like "After Dark, My Sweet," and "Fear," specializes in conjuring conspiratorial atmospheres in which anxiety and sexual menace hang in the air like a heavy, bitter perfume. Long after you've dismissed the movie's ridiculous, convoluted story, traces of that scent may linger.

30
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
The star wattage quickly dims in this slick-looking but ringingly hollow affair that starts off generically at best before collapsing into a convoluted heap of shrill screen cliches.

25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Have you ever seen a movie without a single believable moment? Perfect Stranger, a convoluted and altogether risible thriller with Halle Berry and Bruce Willis, manages this difficult feat.

25
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Superficial and lurid, Perfect Stranger is the cinematic equivalent of spam and should, like those trashy messages, be avoided.

25
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A crappy thriller gussied up with a chrome-plated veneer.

25
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
A dull, dumb and unforgivably dated thriller, free of thrills and any kind of perfection.

25
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
After "Gothika " and "Catwoman ," a viewer has to wonder: Why does this woman keep making thrillers if she can't bring herself to be thrilled?

20
Time
Richard Schickel
The movie's central problem: a lack of alternative suspects...How the screenwriter, Todd Komarnicki, and the director, James Foley, resolve this problem is a genre travesty and an affront to their star.

20
Empire
Dan Jolin
A twist-burdened techno-thriller that would be by-the-numbers if it could count.

20
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This stupidly contrived thriller is all the more disappointing if you admire previous work by Berry and director James Foley (After Dark, My Sweet).

10
Film Threat
Michael Ferraro
Nothing but a perfect waste of a Friday night. Or a Tuesday night. Or any night of the week for that matter.

0
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Life is full of choices, and Halle Berry has made another bad one with Perfect Stranger, a perfectly off-putting thriller.

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