Halle Berry is pretty.
What, you want more? Well, you already know who she is. She's done a whole lot of movies and TV; she's won a Best Actress Academy Award (for Monster's Ball, first African-American woman ever), and a Razzie (for Catwoman). She's got a movie opening Friday, but the Daily Show website doesn't mention the title. The email did, however: it's "Perfect Stranger", with Bruce Willis, and if the handful of reviews up on rottentomatoes.com are to be trusted, maybe there's a reason.
Here's a brief summary:
Halle Berry furrows her brow really, really hard to play a reporter investigating the death of a friend by going undercover as a horny temp and seducing the serially unfaithful advertising executive (Bruce Willis) who might be connected.
Apparently, there's an Internetty connection: chat rooms and online identities are somehow involved. My favorite of the rottentomatoes clips is this:
As vacuous, white noise entertainments go, this is one of the finest.
Aintitcool.com was less, um, diplomatic:
The film is riddled with trite, lazy bullshit and ham-fisted attempts at exposition that FEELS 100% like they’re trying to force exposition. Hell, we’re given cues for the first 20 minutes of the film reminding us how attractive Halle Berry is. Yeah. Like we need to be fucking told. We get it. She’s hot. Does every character in the movie have to tell us? But when, just 15 minutes into the movie, Halle begins to stare out the window and we see flashbacks of what just happened in the last few scenes, just to make sure we’re all caught up, you realize what you’re in for. ...Really, this movie has zero to offer anyone that isn’t lying half awake on a couch without the energy to change the channel. As long as they don’t doze off before the unbelievable explanation at the end! Pshaw. I’d write more about this film, but really, who are we kidding? This thing will be forgotten long before anyone finished reading it.
So maybe we'll get movie-shoot stories, maybe they'll just chat. |
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