PERFECT STRANGER is, however, a humanist movie with strong pagan content and no positive references to morality or God. The movie also has a couple shots at the end that are unintentionally laughable. She needs someone of superior talent like Bruce Willis to play off well. Halle Berry, however, is not that gifted an actress despite her Oscar®, which was undeserved. There are also some nifty twists at the end. PERFECT STRANGER stretches credulity at times, but it has some intense drama and suspense once the ad executive appears in the story. Rowena thinks Hill just may have murdered Grace to keep his affairs secret. Before she died, Grace suddenly showed up and told Rowena she had slept with Hill, a notorious playboy with a wife, who actually owns the agency. When her estranged girlfriend, Grace, is found murdered, she goes undercover as a temp worker at the agency run by Harrison Hill, a powerful ad executive played by Bruce Willis. After their New York editors nix their scandal piece on a family values politician who has secret homosexual affairs, Rowena quits the paper. Giovanni Ribisi is her computer hacking assistant, Miles, who is secretly in love with her. Halle Berry stars as investigative reporter Rowena Price.
It gets off the ground when Bruce Willis shows up as the heroine’s antagonist, but the ending has a few unintentional laughs that dilute its power. PERFECT STRANGER is a secular psychological thriller that has some uneven qualities. (H, PaPa, PC, Ho, LLL, VV, SS, NN, AA, D, MM) Light humanist worldview with strong pagan content, a politically correct, introductory moment that's brief and that attacks the family values movement for being "intolerant" of "gays," and a minor character is a lesbian who goes off with another woman at a party at least 75 obscenities (including many "f" words), three strong profanities, six light profanities, obscene gesture strong violence includes images of corpse picked up from water, character stabbed in chest, character hit with poker with blood smearing on wall, angry man starts to hit woman but stops, and man violently throws another man out of office strong sexual content includes implied adultery, still photos of man with women having fornication, and married man passionately kisses unmarried woman after pursuing her and other women, including online upper female nudity in shots of murdered woman, shot of woman's whole dead nude body but genitals obscured in shadow, rear nudity, and implied homosexuality alcohol use and drunkenness smoking and, reporter lies and goes undercover to get stories, blackmail, man framed for murder, miscellaneous lying, murder covered up, etc. It also has lots of strong foul language and some racy sex photos.
PERFECT STRANGER stretches credulity at times and could use a better performance from Halle Berry, but it has some intense drama and suspense once the ad executive appears. Rowena thinks Hill may have murdered Grace to keep his affairs secret. Before she died, Grace told Rowena she had slept with Hill, a notorious playboy with a wife, who actually owns the agency. PERFECT STRANGER is a secular psychological thriller.