Dean reviews Perfect Stranger and Disturbia
PERFECT STRANGER
Halle Berry stars as an investigative reoprter who, with the help of a uber-techno buddy, Giovanni Ribisi, goes undercover to try to solve the murder of a childhood friend. The pursued is a womanizing executive, played by Bruce Willis.
Perfect Stranger is a good, not great who dunit whose story could have been stronger with Halle desperately tryng to show why she won an Oscar. Willis grumbles his way through another film, not adding much. The real star is Ribisi who has several layers of creepy complexity to his character making it worth seeing.
A Deans List C plus.
DISTURBIA
Take a pass on Disturbia. Shia Le Bouef is a deliquent teenager, traumatized by the death of his father, who lashes out against a teacher and forced to wear an ankle braclet while placed under house arrest. While confined, he sees deliquent kids in his neighborhood...sees the hot new neighbor girl...and, maybe a murder or two take place. No one seems to believe thistrouble making kid on the murders.
Disturbia wants to be a scary white knuckler but fails. The story doesn't have the stuff to keep you on the edge of your seat...and the actors don't have what it takes to keep you in the story.
A Deans List C minus.