Watch the trailer for Halle Berry’s Perfect Stranger – and play “Choose Your Spoiler”®!
By Burbanked on Dec 12, 2006 in Celebrities, Movie Marketing 101, Movies, Trailers | 4,411 views |
Halle Berry adds another Hackneyed Movie Choice® to her resume in 2007 with the spring release of Perfect Stranger, an Internet Thriller® in which she investigates the death of her Perhaps Not So Innocent Friend® who disappeared soon after consorting with a Wealthy Controlling Sociopath® played by Bruce Willis. Cinematical points us in the direction of the movie’s trailer, but it’s also available in Non-Sucky AOL streaming over at the movie’s Web site.
Jessica at Cinematical speculates that Perfect Stranger will somehow NOT be the movie to break Berry out of her Lazy Oscar-Winning Actress Career Bloat®, but honestly that’s being pretty kind. There isn’t a single moment in this trailer that’s not clichéd and telegraphed, and it’s mostly due to Berry’s well-worn Tough Chick Who Gets Scared® and Extreme Actorly All-Surprised Gasping® acting tricks. We’ve now officially seen the breadth of her instrument in Gothika, Swordfish, The Rich Man’s Wife, Executive Decision and The Last Boy Scout, so can there be any true surprises or joy to be found here somewhere?
Well, sure there is, courtesy of your pals at Burbanked. Join me after the jump for a Berry-centric round of Choose Your Spoiler!®
See, if you pay close attention to the Perfect Stranger trailer, you’ll notice that all of the clues are likely there for the discriminating moviegoer to figure out exactly how the plot unfolds and what kinds of silly, late-third-act contrivances will be found when we all get around to finally picking this movie out of the $1.50/20-day-rental bin at our local video store.
So take our simple Choose Your Spoiler!® quiz below, bookmark this page until next year, then come back and see how you did!
In Perfect Stranger, Halle Berry:
- Uses a chat room the likes of which have never been experienced in reality
- Frequently narrates what she’s typing on the computer
- Will, in her role as an investigative reporter, put absolute faith in a wildly speculative plot point, told to her by a character that she’s supposed to trust, for no good reason whatsoever.
In Perfect Stranger, Giovanni Ribisi is:
- Halle Berry’s best friend who secretly loves her
- A dorky but whip-smart computer whiz who can hack any account, Web site or someone’s access code/password in minutes
- Not to be trusted, as evidenced by a number of subtle, sideways glances that he gives each time Halle Berry leaves a room within the course of the movie
- All of the above, and probably will turn out to be the real killer.
In the movie, Halle Berry’s dead friend:
- Was sweet, innocent, funny and will be described at least once as someone who “got in over her head”
- Turns out to be none of those things, and isn’t even dead
- Is the real killer, which will truly not make sense because if she’s not even dead how can she be the killer of herself who is not dead. And she’s revealed to be, Mission Impossible Mask-Style, a minor character from earlier in the movie, or Patrick Swayze.
By the end of the movie, Bruce Willis
- Is killed via a) gunshot to the head or b) a fall from a building
- Will have said, at least once, “You don’t know who you’re dealing with”
- Has picked up a nifty little paycheck for once again playing A Self-Important Smug Bastard®
There you have it, Fans of Bad Cinema. Tell me your Balki-free predictions for Perfect Stranger in the comments below.



Sulu at the Helm | Dec 13, 2006 | Reply
Yep. It sucks so hard I found myself looking for a cigarette after watching it. Oh, and I was tempted to leave $50 on top of my PC. Later, I thought I saw this trailer decked out in high heels, a mini-skirt and a tube top, leaning into the cars of strange men, asking “Hey baby, you like to party?” That’s how hard it sucks.