She digs up the dirt she needs, thanks mostly to her research assistant Miles (Giovanni Ribisi), who is so ridiculously good at technowizardy and hacking server firewalls that he makes the gang at CTU on “24” look like they’re playing Atari. Her gift is exposing the secrets of others, like a family values centered Senator who lately has been centering his values on his young male interns. Rowena (Halle Berry) is an investigative reporter who lives for the kill. That’s not to say it’s a boring story, just one that’s not told all that well. In fact, at times it gets so dull and confusing that it threatens to put the audience to sleep, thereby causing them to miss the very ending it’s trying so desperately to set up. Perfect Stranger is one of those movies that makes a great effort at creating an unexpected ending, but it gets so caught up in trying to shock and awe you with a reality shattering, mind blowing, soda spilling twist that it forgets to make the rest of the story worth watching.
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