Perfect Stranger

Perfect Stranger (Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Giovanni Ribisi) – Ever walk through the video store and see a movie you never heard of with big box-office stars?  You say to yourself, “How bad could this be?”  The answer is: Perfect Stranger.  This is a truly awful movie that should fail at the box office, and then end up an obscure mistake on a video shelf at Blockbuster.  A bunch of dysfunctional characters comprise this alleged thriller about an enterprising investigative reporter (Berry) and her computer-geek sidekick (Ribisi) exposing famous people for their indiscretions.  Meaningless flashbacks and even more obscure bit characters telegraph the so-called “surprise” twist.  I’ll give you a couple of hints.  Someone is a killer.  Everyone is obsessed.  And by the end, you won’t care one little bit!  Berry won an Academy Award for Monster’s Ball and, since then, she has made two horrendous movies, this one and Catwoman.  What’s up with that?  She is drop-dead gorgeous and it’s becoming apparent that that may be all the talent she really possesses.  Bruce Willis actually creates all of the real moments in the film.  He really tries, but he knows he’s in a clunker.  Ribisi is so obviously taken with his co-worker that everyone knows he’s a weirdo except for Berry’s character.  And the stuff his character, Miles, can do with a computer would put the NSA to shame.  It’s almost as ridiculous as Jeff Goldblum’s character in Independence Day when he hacks into the aliens’ computer system.  Anyway, if you wasted your money on this piece of garbage, sorry.  And it you even think about renting it, you have to be crazy or desperate.  What a mess!