Perfect Stranger (2007, DVD)

Not since Rebecca DeMornay realized that she was stalking herself at the end of the laughable 'Never Talk to Strangers' (1995) has a "Babe in Jeopardy" film gone so wildly "off the rails" like 'Perfect Stranger'.
More silly than suspenseful, this sleekly produced, high gloss piece isn't quite in the 'so-bad-it's-good' category of schlock films, but it comes close; thanks to a gonzo twist of an ending, which reduces everything that came before to uselessness.
Director James Foley, who hasn't made a halfway decent film since 1992's 'Glengarry Glen Ross', continues his 15-year campaign for Razzie recognition with the resoundingly less-than-Perfect Stranger.
The narrative traps Halle Berry in an overly convoluted murder mystery set against the backdrop of Internet Hookups and Chat Rooms. The preternaturally Gorgeous Academy Award Winner throws herself into the role of top-notch Investigative Reporter Rowena Price, who regularly dons aliases to write headline-generating exposés for the New York Courier.
Furious when editors kill her biggest scoop to date, she quits in a snit, despite the whining pleas of her mopey, sallow-faced co-worker, Miles Haley (Giovanni Ribisi).
But before she can kick back and enjoy some down time, her trampy childhood friend, Grace (Nicki Lynn Aycox), turns up dead in the East River. It seems Grace was carrying on a torrid, Internet-Driven Affair with the very powerful and very married advertising bigwig Harrison Hill (a smug Bruce Willis). Suspecting foul play, Rowena decides to go undercover, both online and at Hill's swank agency, to see if Hill murdered Grace, who was threatening to tell his wife about their affair. But as she delves deeper into the mystery surrounding Grace's murder, Rowena discovers that Hill isn't the only one with a secret link to her childhood friend — or with a potential motive for killing her.
Co-starring Clea Lewis as the quick-witted office gossip at Hill's agency, 'Perfect Stranger' has a smattering of juicy, melodramatic scenes that make for good, nasty fun, but these fleeting moments are no compensation for the sheer idiocy of Komarnicki's screenplay, or the ineptitude of Foley's direction. It's so awful, with a surfeit of nutty plot twists, bad cheese-drenched dialogue, and plot holes (not twists - HOLES) galore, that you wonder if Foley and Komarnicki intended 'Perfect Stranger' to be a parody or satirical comedy, because it generates next to nothing in the way of genuine suspense or intrigue.
As for Ms. Berry, she's stunning to behold and tears into her role with relish, to the point of overacting in the film's would-be "big" dramatic scenes. It's not that she's patently unbelievable as a hard-driving, borderline ruthless investigative reporter, at least in the glossy context of Komarnicki's screenplay. But she's ultimately defeated by her ill-conceived role, as is everyone else stuck in the quagmire that is 'Perfect Stranger'.
Willis has always been an entertaining watch as well. 'Die Hard' (now 4Pack), 'Lucky Number Slevin', 'Pulp Fiction', and many more Pulp Films that guarantee fun., this just isn't the role for him and he becomes just as big a victim of the sloppy mess that is 'Perfect Stranger'.
Halle Berry & Bruce Willis get my pass for being rallied into this mess; as they have both shown so much more guaranteed success' prior to this; but
Foley & Komarnicki should be ashamed of themselves.
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