The Worst Film Ever

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Perfect Stranger is one of this movies that revisits some often-used (some might say overused) plot involving a high-wheeled corporate person and somebody looking to prove herself and cast away her own demons by engaging in a truth-seeking overture that becomes more than what she had originally signed up for. It is not exactly an innovative opening line, but one that has yielded good movies last 10-12 years.The movie has some serious good acting, especially on he part of Giovanni Ribisi, who proved himself in a role more complex and mature than what he's most known for coming up with on recent years. It also has some subtle but ingenious references to The Devil Wears Prada that are quite easy to notice if you paid attention to the latter. However, the editing has left many loose ties. Some characters have their construction reversed in a manner that appears totally disconnected from the plot. We can try see through the ambiguity of some characters to wonder into their minds, but that doesn't happen at all except for Halle's character (Rowena Price). A couple plot sequences are badly knitted, giving a feeling of like of plot cohesion, and not on the positive way. This is where good acting and a decent story line are clearly lost on bad editing.

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 ****

I watched it solely for Giovanni Ribisi. After seeing a couple of his movies, I don't know if he consciously or unconsciously, decides to play the creepy character, but here, he plays a sexy creepy character. One by whom I wouldn't mind being stalked. I found myself fast-forwarding to the scenes where he was because everything else seemed so dull and slow-paced. The characters and the story could've been worked on, because after all, it's kind of an original concept. The cinematography is okay. Beautiful people and beautiful scenery make up for the holes in the screenplay or performances as well as the suspense-building soundtrack.