Perfect Stranger Reviews
The movie doesn't add up to much: the plot meanders, there are too many red herrings, and the end doesn't really justify the means.
| Jun 13, 2019
This one's DOA.
| Jul 9, 2007
The movie shows that the only thing worse than a generically screwy thriller is one with a selective narrator -- and one that doesn't give viewers a fair chance to play along.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/6 | Jun 23, 2007
A rarely suspenseful thriller with a twist ending of the worst kind: It takes too much explanation.
| Original Score: D | May 28, 2007
Even Berry's bodacious bod (the woman is blessed with some really good genes) isn't distraction enough to make Perfect Stranger palatable.
| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 28, 2007
The movie would perhaps like to say something serious about the ease with which modern communications allows us to be multiple personalities, but that effort is lost in ineptitude.
| Apr 24, 2007
There is entertainment to be had here, but it's mostly at the expense of the film's rambling, increasingly ridiculous plot.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2007
Instead of eroticism, there is tacky sub-porn; instead of twists, there are knotty plot problems which may or may not have been fixable with script rewrites.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 14, 2007
Some films are marred by absurd endings; this dire journo-thriller is like one big mar.
| Original Score: 2/6 | Apr 14, 2007
A tangled mess.
Full Review | Original Score: C- | Apr 14, 2007
Its shiny plastic glamour serves to endorse the very phoniness it ought to be warning us about.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 13, 2007
Reportedly, several endings were filmed; perhaps some of them make more sense than this one.
| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 13, 2007
People with access to vital information just show up when the movie needs them, then vanish again.
| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 13, 2007
For those who are interested in Berry as both an actress and screen presence, this is one of the most satisfying films she has ever made. It capitalizes on her strengths and she owns the picture, from start to finish.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 13, 2007
The only reason this movie might not win any Razzies next year is because no one will remember it even came out.
Full Review | Apr 13, 2007
That's right, it's a techno thriller that treats the already clichéd topic of Web abuse with an idiotic sense of discovery.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 13, 2007
Nothing can quite top the climax, which arbitrarily assigns a culprit in a way that makes you question almost every single thing that's transpired up to that point. And no, that's not a good thing in this case.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 13, 2007
People peek through windows, hack into computers and sneak into apartments without the slightest hesitation. We're guilty of voyeurism, too, since the primary pleasure to be found is in seeing three confident leads play off each other.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2007
Perfect Stranger isn't great art by any stretch, or even art by any stretch, but it is perfectly functional low-to-middlebrow entertainment -- a B movie at ease inside its own gaudy skin.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2007
One of those formulaic thrillers loaded with a whole lot more plot than common sense.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2007