Unlike many of the reviewers on here, I quite liked the main body of the film. I love murder mysteries, suspense, whodunits, so it's always nice when a big budget mystery comes out.

TV mysteries are always the best, Agatha Christie penned mysteries are definitely the best, you are given clues, taken up blind alleys, but if you're smart, you can work out the puzzle. The problem with Perfect Stranger, is that the ending feels like it was tagged on because nobody was smart enough to come up with an intelligent, logical conclusion, that actually made sense. I felt robbed by the twist, the whole conclusion made absolutely no sense. The closing twenty minutes almost made me feel like I'd switched channels, which is a shame, because the build up was really smart, I enjoyed the tension, I liked the way the story was going, the eye pictures, drops etc, it was clever, then we get the rug pulled from underneath our feet.

Halle Berry did a great job, Bruce Willis was also very good, in a very different role for him. Disheartening, but with the likes of Gone Girl and Girl on a Train the genre is still alive.

Watchable, 6/10

Rowena Price (Halle Berry) is an investigative journalist who quits after her story gets pulled by a powerful politician. Her childhood friend Grace has some information on ad exec Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis). She's a mess and claims to have had an online affair with Hill. She ends up dead, and Rowena starts investigating Hill with help from friend co-worker Miles Haley (Giovanni Ribisi). She goes undercover with a fake name as a new temp in Hill's company.

It tries to be a noir thriller. It's slow. Sometimes it creates a nice quiet atmosphere but mostly it is slow and boring. Halle Berry never really achieves the undercover journalist feel. It's too bland and looks too good. The internet chat is also boring as heck. There is way too much boring static computer work with the computer voice.

It's a lot of whodunnit but I'm not sure if I care. Bruce Willis doesn't have enough natural menace but he does an OK job. It just takes too long, and there isn't more sense of danger. And the twist ending is horrible. The investigation is boring to begin with but the ending reduces it to nothingness.

In New York, the investigative reporter Rowena Price (Halle Berry) sees her scoop about a gay senator spiked by her editor. She quits her job in the newspaper and meets with her childhood friend Grace (Nicki Aycox) by chance in the subway. Grace tells Ro that she had just been dumped by the powerful and wealthy owner of the greatest New Yorker advertising agency, Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis),and she was threatening to tell his wife about their affair. When Grace is found dead, Harrison becomes Rowena's prime suspect. With the support of her hacker friend and former colleague Miles Haley (Giovanni Ribisi),Ro is hired for a temporary work in Harrison's agency to get close to the executive and investigate his life.

"Perfect Stranger" has a good story, with a surprising twist; the lead cast has the names of Halle Berry, Bruce Willis and Giovanni Ribisi; unfortunately, the screenplay does not work well since it does not create an empathy of the viewer with the characters, which have dirty secrets. In the end, this film is a good and forgettable entertainment. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "A Estranha Perfeita" ("The Perfect Stranger")