Engaging computer-whiz Miles’ help to get through Hill’s firewall, she also starts chatting with him (Miles does have the good sense to laugh out loud at Hill’s “seductive” email: “I’m gonna fuck you so hard, I’m gonna split you in two” - what is this, To Catch a Predator?). Her first step is to engage Hill online, though even that seemingly straightforward deception quickly turns odd. Her scheme to nail Hill is increasingly nonsensical, a series of disconnected setups to get Halle Berry into variously sexed-up situations and outfits. While it begins dully enough for an investigative thriller, Perfect Stranger quickly skids off into abject foolishness. (This point is underlined in feeble fashion, when Rowena’s reconsideration of events turns into a flashback sequence of Grace images you have just seen, like, a minute ago: this is thriller-making for stupid viewers, assuming you can’t keep up even that long.) It appears that Ro suddenly has all kinds of motivation to jump into this extremely personal investigation.
To only does Ro have to go down to the morgue to identify the grisly body (it’s been in a river, its eyes are wrecked by poison), Grace’s very sad mom shows up. Now that’s a super-coincidence.Īlmost as soon as Rowena says she’ll think about it, Grace turns up dead.
Bastard! She comes equipped with a paper file of emails to convince Rowena to help her get revenge. As Grace tells it, she met him online, shared a bout of wild sex, and was then summarily dumped. She looks mostly bored until she learns that Grace is grumpy about her own recent betrayal by a powerful man, namely, multimillionaire advertising exec Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis).
This incredible coincidence, at New York’s Christopher Street subway station, hardly surprises Ro. Striding away into the night - Miles is apparently left whimpering and alone at the bar - Rowena is instantly spotted by a childhood friend, Grace (Nicki Aycox). It’s like not showing the dead bodies coming from Iraq. But no! When she learns the story has been squashed by her publisher, the half-drunk Rowena has a bit of a meltdown in front of her boss, quitting her job and protesting that the decision is another instance of “Powerful men protecting powerful men.” (She even tires to make the point topical, by asserting, “We’re supposed to be reporting the news, not covering it up.
Pleased with her triumph, Rowena, who writes under the name “David Chase,” heads off for an evening of toasting the “little people” she’s protecting with shots and beer with her best friend Miles (Giovanni Ribisi). Suddenly, she reveals that she’s a journalist armed with evidence that her host has been having sex with his male interns. Senator’s office at the start of Perfect Stranger, she poses as a friendly representative of Family First, cozying up to the Senator’s own conservative self-image. And I won’t put my hands up and surrender.
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