PERFECT STRANGER

RYAN: I’m here to declare that you should regret not seeing “Perfect Stranger” with me.

CAROLINE: I don’t regret it for a minute because it got less than two stars in every review I read.

RYAN: Well, I don’t go to movies based on someone else’s review. I like to see for myself and I’ll tell you, this was a fun movie.

CAROLINE: How so?

RYAN: It has some “Silence of the Lambs” elements and it’s a great mystery/thriller. And what a twist! You know I like to figure things out before they’ve happened and I can often tell where movies are going. But in this one, I had several clear predictions of what I thought was going to happen, but each time I was dead wrong.

CAROLINE: Ooh, that’s fun. How’s Halle Berry?

RYAN: She’s gorgeous in this. And they really milk it with lots of gratuitous cleavage shots, as well as leg and foot shots of her.

CAROLINE: For the foot fetishist in you?

RYAN: Well, not in me, no.

CAROLINE: What about Bruce Willis?

RYAN: He’s hardly even in it.

CAROLINE: Really? I thought he was getting top billing.

RYAN: He and Halle make out and I though, “Ick.” I didn’t like seeing those two mack at all.

CAROLINE: I can’t believe you just ruined the whole plot by telling me they made out.

RYAN: Sorry, but it made me throw up a teaspoon in my mouth.

CAROLINE: Given that movies are finally getting a little bit better as 2007 progresses, is “Perfect Stranger” really a must-see in the theater?

RYAN: No. I’d choose “Fracture” or “The Hoax” over this one. “Perfect Stranger” could be a rental.

CAROLINE: But nonetheless, it’s a sexy thriller.

RYAN: Well said, from the woman who didn’t even see the movie.