Hill is known in his office for his temper and having flings with co-workers - even with his wife watching him like a hawk. Price runs with the theory that Harrison Hill (Willis), who owns the biggest advertising agency in New York, is responsible for Clayton’s death and goes undercover working as a temp at Hill’s agency. Price and Haley partner up to investigate the murder of Price’s childhood friend Grace Clayton (Nicki Aycox). Partnered with a researcher and hacking guru Miles Haley (Giovanni Ribisi), the two make a formidable team. Price is the type of reporter who would kill to have a front-page story that takes down a corrupt authority figure. This definitely holds true for Perfect Stranger (2007), a film she co-stars with Bruce Willis (a 16-year reunion between the two that were cast in The Last Boy Scout) and directed by James Foley ( Fear, Fifty Shades Darker).īerry plays the hot-shot investigative New York reporter, Rowena Price, who publishes her stories under a male alias to keep herself anonymous. While Berry is certainly versatile to play roles across genres, one genre she specializes in is thrillers. She’s also won a Golden Globe and Emmy Award for her leading role in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, where she portrays the first black actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 1959. The Academy Award winner has starred in numerous hits over the years such as playing a Bond girl in Die Another Day (2002), reprising her reoccurring role as Storm in the Marvel Universe FOX film franchise X-Men and appearing in the third installment of the John Wick franchise in 2019. Halle Berry was “cold-blooded” in her performance as the lead in Perfect Stranger.īerry has had an illustrious career.
Apparently this is because the ending was changed to make her character the killer, all logic be damned.Halle Berry makes any thriller a must watch flick and that definitely holds true for Perfect Stranger (2007). Undercover When Alone: When Rowena is snooping around Hill's apartment looking for evidence of who the killer is and she finds evidence that seems to indicate that it's indeed Hill, she becomes visibly scared, even though it's revealed at the end that she was the killer all along.After confronting her, he decides to blackmail the woman who just killed the last person who tried to blackmail her. Too Dumb to Live: Miles finds out that Rowena, the reporter who was investigating her friend's murder, actually killed her after years of blackmail by the victim.Averted with Rowena, while she's using her romantic charm to get to him, it turns out she was doing it to frame him for Grace's murder. He sneaks into Rowena's house and watches her make out with her boyfriend, tries to flirt with her in instant messaging by posing as someone else, and has a freaky shrine dedicated to her in his house. Stalker Shrine: It turns out that Miles actually made one of Rowena that's hidden in a secret room in his house.This is because the twist of Rowena being the killer is actually the result of a last-minute change on the ending to decide the identity of the killer. except that several times through the film she's surprised by developments that as the killer she should've known already beforehand, as if she's the Amnesiac Killer type.
All this would look like the Secretive Killer type. Oh, and she murders again when Miles tries to blackmail her about setting up Hill.
Through the film Rowena is presented as investigating the murder of her friend, and that the most likely culprit is Hill, only to be revealed that she murdered her 'friend' (who was blackmailing her) before she successfully pins the blame on the innocent, if slimy-looking businessman, Hill. The Killer in Me: The film somehow manages to do both.Parental Incest: In her childhood, Rowena was sexually abused by her father, prompting her mother to kill him.