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Good movie but grossly overrated

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The acting in this movie is really good.

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)

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.

I watched perfect stranger in hopes of a smart thriller, maybe close to(but not like) identity or insomnia. Yet the main premise is so dull and unpromising that not only it bored the stuff out of me, it also made me shout at how dumb the characters were. First of all, Halle Berry's character is supposedly a smart journalist, yet she is definitely computer illiterate. In one scene she had this picture on the screen that her boss isn't supposed to see, and of course he shows up, at the same time the screen somehow freezes. And what does she do instead of turning the screen off? She panics and tries to unplug the cable with her foot. I know scenes like this are supposed to build up tension but come on! In another one she uploads a virus and gets busted by the antivirus software. Instead of shutting the software, she calls giovanni ribisi and this time he(apparently more computer-savvy than her) tells her there is no way past it and they will try later. In any case the movie is so slow paced and so devoid of any actual thrills that you never feel hooked up to it. Even in the end you see what is coming(the other characters somehow fail to do it) and watch the credits dumbfounded and not entertained in any way.

"Perfect Stranger" has a decent premise for a thriller: A reporter becomes a spy when a friend his murdered by some stranger. But, the movie is mediocre, there's no chemistry between Willis and Berry, and the characters are two-dimensional at best. And because of these qualities, you don't have anyone to root for or care about. There are a couple of moments where Bruce Willis shows his temper, but unfortunately, that's as interesting as the movie gets. Sure, the film has a story, but there's almost no point to it. The movie goes on and on and on, and has an (unnecessary) ending that feels tacked on, I might add. The film is 109 min., but feels like a little more than 2 hours.** out of ****