junktodelete-155-36017 Boy what a find! Critics only rated the movie 5-6 but what were they thinking? I gave it a 10 just because it's overall average rating was so undeservedly low. I've never done that before but what an injustice to the writers for a 9-ish performance. Halle has never been more beautiful, wow! She also did a 10 performance I thought. The only reason I gave the writers 8-9... is the computer hacking guy's skills were too unrealistic; if he's so good what's he doing working for a newspaper etc? And the online interactions were a little confusing to me but I was able to overlook all of that and enjoyed the movie. I got it cheap as it's so old now and and I don't know anyone who would regret watching it and quite the opposite. It's a minimum of an 8 and should be rated even higher in my opinion. Halles undercover roles to me were very convincing. I could actually see her doing those roles in real life...

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.

GManfred Website users were awfully tough on this one. I thought it was a good mystery - a mysterious mystery, which is not redundant. Think of all the movies that are passed off as mysteries but are not, uh, mysterious. For instance, "Dial M For Murder", in which the murderer is known throughout the picture. This one is absorbing and holds your interest for the entire hour and 50 minutes.Most users rehash the plot in their review, so to cut to the chase, this is Halle Berry's picture from start to finish and she does a great job as a journalist trying to break a big story. The first story fizzles out but the next one involves Bruce Willis as an Ad exec who she suspects is responsible for a murder. Her cohort and pal is Giovanni Ribisi, who gets better each time out. Willis, on the other hand, phones his part in and seems bored.This movie reportedly has several different endings and the CD I saw seemed to also. I thought the ending I saw was somewhat contrived, so much so that you couldn't see it coming. But I thought that's what made it interesting and absorbing, as mentioned above.

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.