Maybe - at least in part - because no one has yet found a way to make participation in internet chat exciting. The ending calls for a suspension of disbelief uncommon outside of frank delusions. I prefer him dashing along steel girders with a pistol in hand. Bruce Willis is toggled into his minimalist mode, which renders him more ominous but less human than in his usual action movies. Giovanni Ribisi is a good nerd but occupies so much screen time that we KNOW he's more than just a helping hand. The part calls for a fully grown and determined woman, not a cutie pie.
Halle Berry looks delicious, though she is no longer the cherub of yesteryear. Everybody turns out to have secrets of one sort or another and they are uncovered, one by one, except for those of the murderer. The writers have done what they could but not much of interest happens, despite some trumped-up suspense plug-ins. (If she were a cop, this would be the scene in which she hands over her gun and badge.) With the help of a friend at the paper, Giovanni Ribisi, she goes undercover and is hired by the prime suspect, Bruce Willis, a nasty executive at the firm where Berry's friend last worked, a guy who exudes menace and embodies a kind of serpentine lechery.
She pursues the case over the objections of her editor, who finally fires her. Halle Berry is a reporter whose best friend is murdered. Disheartening, but with the likes of Gone Girl and Girl on a Train the genre is still alive. Halle Berry did a great job, Bruce Willis was also very good, in a very different role for him.
The closing twenty minutes almost made me feel like I'd switched channels, which is a shame, because the build up was really smart, I enjoyed the tension, I liked the way the story was going, the eye pictures, drops etc, it was clever, then we get the rug pulled from underneath our feet. I felt robbed by the twist, the whole conclusion made absolutely no sense. The problem with Perfect Stranger, is that the ending feels like it was tagged on because nobody was smart enough to come up with an intelligent, logical conclusion, that actually made sense.
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TV mysteries are always the best, Agatha Christie penned mysteries are definitely the best, you are given clues, taken up blind alleys, but if you're smart, you can work out the puzzle. I love murder mysteries, suspense, whodunits, so it's always nice when a big budget mystery comes out. Unlike many of the reviewers on here, I quite liked the main body of the film. Title (Brazil): "A Estranha Perfeita" ("The Perfect Stranger") In the end, this film is a good and forgettable entertainment. "Perfect Stranger" has a good story, with a surprising twist the lead cast has the names of Halle Berry, Bruce Willis and Giovanni Ribisi unfortunately, the screenplay does not work well since it does not create an empathy of the viewer with the characters, which have dirty secrets. With the support of her hacker friend and former colleague Miles Haley (Giovanni Ribisi), Ro is hired for a temporary work in Harrison's agency to get close to the executive and investigate his life. When Grace is found dead, Harrison becomes Rowena's prime suspect. Grace tells Ro that she had just been dumped by the powerful and wealthy owner of the greatest New Yorker advertising agency, Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis), and she was threatening to tell his wife about their affair. She quits her job in the newspaper and meets with her childhood friend Grace (Nicki Aycox) by chance in the subway. In New York, the investigative reporter Rowena Price (Halle Berry) sees her scoop about a gay senator spiked by her editor. The investigation is boring to begin with but the ending reduces it to nothingness. It just takes too long, and there isn't more sense of danger. Bruce Willis doesn't have enough natural menace but he does an OK job. It's a lot of whodunnit but I'm not sure if I care. There is way too much boring static computer work with the computer voice. The internet chat is also boring as heck. Halle Berry never really achieves the undercover journalist feel. Sometimes it creates a nice quiet atmosphere but mostly it is slow and boring. She goes undercover with a fake name as a new temp in Hill's company. She ends up dead, and Rowena starts investigating Hill with help from friend co-worker Miles Haley (Giovanni Ribisi). She's a mess and claims to have had an online affair with Hill. Her childhood friend Grace has some information on ad exec Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis). Rowena Price (Halle Berry) is an investigative journalist who quits after her story gets pulled by a powerful politician.