ridiculous rating

It is a performances centric movie

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Rowena Price (Halle Berry) is an investigative journalist who quits after her story gets pulled by a powerful politician. Her childhood friend Grace has some information on ad exec Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis). She's a mess and claims to have had an online affair with Hill. She ends up dead, and Rowena starts investigating Hill with help from friend co-worker Miles Haley (Giovanni Ribisi). She goes undercover with a fake name as a new temp in Hill's company.It tries to be a noir thriller. It's slow. Sometimes it creates a nice quiet atmosphere but mostly it is slow and boring. Halle Berry never really achieves the undercover journalist feel. It's too bland and looks too good. The internet chat is also boring as heck. There is way too much boring static computer work with the computer voice.It's a lot of whodunnit but I'm not sure if I care. Bruce Willis doesn't have enough natural menace but he does an OK job. It just takes too long, and there isn't more sense of danger. And the twist ending is horrible. The investigation is boring to begin with but the ending reduces it to nothingness.

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

The events in the beginning give already a hint that it is not going to be a fast thriller with lots of twists and action, but as the IT issues start to develop, then some scenes become especially long and dull (chatroom-related, above all). Berry and Willis are nice, especially when they play with and against each other, Ribisi is a sophisticated extra, but even they cannot assist in making the movie continuously thrilling. Undertones and nuances change too smoothly - and so does Berry's character. But the complex ending comes abruptly and is pressed into too short period of time.Recommended to those fond of Berry and Willis - but do not expect a memorable movie night. But killing time for less than 2 hours is reasonable.

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.