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Release Date: Apr 13, 2007; Rated: R; DVD Release Date: Aug 21, 2007; Genres: Drama, Thriller; With: Halle Berry and Bruce Willis; Distributor: Columbia Pictures
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By Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Ty Burr is a writer at large for EW and is no relation to Raymond or Aaron

This preposterous, overplotted thriller that badly (and I do mean badly) wants to be the next Basic Instinct still doesn't resolve whether Halle Berry will ever make a good movie again. The star plays a blank-faced, hot-bodied journalist trying to solve a murder by posing as a temp in suspect Bruce Willis' company; Giovanni Ribisi is her twitchy accomplice. Who to blame? How about screenwriter Todd Komarnicki, who, in the EXTRAS, praises Ribisi for jamming ''a firecracker up the butt of the character.'' (???) Sadly, the dialogue in Perfect Stranger is not even that good. D+


Posted Aug 24, 2007
 

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