Perfect stranger

Year of release : 2007

 

Run time : 1h45min

 

Genre : Thriller / Mystery

 

Cast : Halle Berry, Giovanni Ribisi, Bruce Willis

 

 

Rowena Price is a journalist .She investigates and then writes a piece about a senator who is against gay rights,while he himself is gay.

The piece doesn't go through,as the senator pays for the ex boyfriend's silence.

The very same night,as Rowena quits her job,she is approached by a childhood friend who tells her about Harrison Hill.

 

The next week, Rowena gets a calls from her childhood friend's mother,saying the police called her to identify her body. Rowena is trying to calm her down,telling her they just talked and it couldn't be her.

She takes it upon herself to go to the morgue and identify the body. It is her,and she gets sick seeing her.

She finds out Hill dated,more or less, her childhood friend,and left her. Her friend swore vengeance.She even threatened him.

 

Rowena starts investigating Hill,played by Bruce Willis,gets a temp job at his advertisement company,starts an AOL account to chat with him,and catches his eye.

 

Hill is a womanizer who's married to a rich woman. The wife found out he was cheating in the past,and threatened to leave and take her money with her. So now he cheats responsibly,he hides his affairs as well as he can,but he still cheats with one different woman a day or a night!

He is hitting on Rowan while looking up women online,and having a permanent mistress,he's a dog!

 

Miles,Rowan's bestie,seems to be into her,but she doesn't see it.

 

I personally didn't like the movie,I found it uninteresting and boring.The lines were mostly bad,and the temp job and scheming was boring. The s3x scenes were just as bad as in 365 days.

The characters are unlikeable,starting with Rowan,who has mood swings,and ending with her childhood friend;Hill,who was a h0rnd0g,and even her bestie,who has a dark secret or more.

 

The reveal at the end is not so much a reveal,if you pay attention to the details,and listen to the dialogue.

 

The acting was fine,but bad from Halle Berry.I can't believe I write this about her,as she's one of my favorites,and I always thought she's a great actress,but she overacts in this movie.I don't know if she was told to do so,SPOILER because of the reveal at the end,but..I didn't like her performance.

 

The only things I liked about the movie were the way Halle looked,Halle's style, Giovanni's abs,and the ending.

 

Gary Dourdan has a sort of cameo in this movie,as he plays Halle's estranged boyfriend.

Heidi Klum has a cameo in the movie,as Victoria's Secret's angel.

 

The movie is streaming on DirecTv, Hulu, Netflix, The CW, The Roku Channel, and is for rent / sale Amazon, Apple Tv, DirecTv, Google Play Movies, YouTube.

 

Rating : Could have been a contender !