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Picture-perfect entertainer

(Perfect Stranger)

        The ageing but still graceful Bruce Willis is up against the sensuous Halle Berry. When the young, energetic and enterprising Harrison Hill joins in the act, entertainment cannot be far behind. Director James Foley has played havoc with the three pivotal characters to make it a veritable dish for the routine movie buffs.

        As the high flying media reporter of a popular daily, Berry has a top-ranked wealthy man in her knot. A huge sum is offered to the lady to keep her trap shut. She will have none of that but the influential man finds a way to pull strings with her boss.

        Caught in a no man's land, Berry quits while taking a vow to get even. A chance meeting with her bosom friend Grace comes as a whiff of fresh air. But the joy is short-lived when Grace meets a bizarre end, food-poisoned.

        Bruce Willis (stinking wealthy in the power zone) is the needle of suspicion from Berry's angle. Berry is backed by her journalistic friend (good work by Giovanni Ribisi), whose contacts mean a lot in the cat and mouse game of the two. It is fair for Berry to roam around in two different garbs. The truth surfaces but not before Berry has Willis in her trance, watched in awe by Ribisi, surprised at the turnaround of events. In a director's movie, the characters play their part to the letter.

- K V Vasudevan

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