Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.
Perfect Stranger is a mid-2000s thriller that follows a fairly predictable cat-and-mouse formula. The plot, while initially engaging, relies on contrivances and builds to a twist ending that most viewers found unconvincing and poorly executed. Halle Berry and Bruce Willis deliver competent but unremarkable performances, with Giovanni Ribisi providing the most interesting supporting work. The cinematography is polished and professional for a studio thriller but offers nothing distinctive. The premise of online seduction and corporate crime felt somewhat timely for 2007 but wasn't particularly original even then. The ending is widely regarded as the film's biggest weakness — the twist feels unearned and undermines what little tension had been built, leaving audiences unsatisfied.