Rowena's having a tough time after she quits her job due to one of her stories falling through and a childhood friend of hers named Grace (Nicki Aycox) turns up dead. When I realized that there was no point in following the clues and the movie simply plays to the demands of the filmmaker and which ending worked best with test audiences, it made me hate this shallow and silly excuse for a thriller even more.The film centers on an investigative journalist named Rowena (Halle Berry) who specializes in going undercover and exposing corporate and political frauds with the help of her creepy best friend and co-worker Miles (Giovanni Ribisi) who seems to have a certain unhealthy obsession with her that is painfully obvious to the audience, yet Rowena seems blissfully ignorant to. It doesn't want us to figure it out, and it doesn't play fair. This is a movie that jerks us around simply for the sole fact that it wants to jerk us around. What's the point of guessing if the movie doesn't play fair?Īfter viewing Perfect Stranger, I went on the film's page at the IMDb, and found out that there were three different endings filmed, each one with a different character being guilty. Avoid it at all cost unless you take pleasure in your intelligence being insulted.
After the final plot which came out of nowhere, nothing you've seen until that time makes sense in this miserable dreck. This is not a praise for the scriptwriter who apparently got carried away in his attempt to challenge those predictors instead of writing a coherent story. There's no way one can predict this one which totally turns upside down the whole plot on its head. Some mystery fans like to guess plot twists from small clues of unfolding events. Through its normal flow, the movie has already been limping with bad acting, pedestrian directing and haphazard editing of a drab story but the pathetic twist at the end topped it all.
Well at least, this was my impression in the first hour or so.
This is a suspense thriller with the quality of mediocre tv series. A pitiful suspense thriller with an incredibly pretentious script
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