Perfect Stranger

When talking to a screen, how can one tell who is on the other side? "Perfect Stranger" is a mesh of changing personalities through the potentially dangerous world of the chat room. This is a less than perfect movie, however. The twisted plot is convoluted and heavy-handed, as well as unbelievable. In the end, the audience is not so much asking "who done it?" as "why do we care?"

Rowena Price (Halle Berry) is a journalist that has just gotten the story of her life. The only problem is someone else got to her source and now she can't print it. A childhood friend hands Price the story of cheating ad executive Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis) a man that she struck up an online relationship with. Her friend dies horribly a week after telling Price about Hill. Before she can be out scooped again, Price teams up with her tech coworker Miles (Giovanni Ribisi) to find the murderer. The top suspect is Hill and as they infiltrate his work, they find more and more information on his seemingly obvious guilt.

Most thrillers must have a good build up that leads to a heart pounding denouement. This movie fails at both. The film felt like it needed a