Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

sddavis63 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)

Lee Eisenberg 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.

SnoopyStyle 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.

mapr9 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.