Her solution is to get a temp job in Hill’s office (which, amazingly, happens right off the bat) and seduce the ornery boss via a series of sexy online chats.
When the girl turns up brutally murdered, Hill is Rowena’s prime suspect. The pal mentions that she’s been carrying on an affair with Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis), the owner of a well-respected advertising agency. The paper unfairly quashes her story, and shortly thereafter, Rowena bumps into a childhood friend on the street. But, hey, that’s an early indication of how the film is going to go. Since she has photographic evidence of his same-sex trysts, one has to wonder why she doesn’t merely confront the politician as a reporter. The opening scene finds her posing as a conservative Christian lobbyist to nail a closeted gay politician who has supported anti-gay legislation. This is the kind of film you star in when you’re a struggling up-and-comer, looking to make a name for yourself it is not the kind of film you want to be in if you have an established career and would like to keep it that way.īerry plays Rowena Price, who has to be the least ethical investigative reporter on the planet. Really, there is very little difference between this worthless piece of fluff and her 1996 cornball drama The Rich Man’s Wife. I mean, Catwoman? Gothika? These are not pictures that have the same level of ambition or quality.īerry’s latest, Perfect Stranger is yet another step back. And then she went back to making the same types of movies she had seemingly left behind. Berry won an Emmy for her work in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and, famously, earned a Best Actress Oscar for Monster’s Ball. Once established, she seemed to take her career very seriously, choosing increasingly interesting projects that announced her as a genuine talent.
The actress, of whom I’ve long been a fan, started off in often-thankless sexpot roles ( The Flintstones, Race the Sun, Strictly Business). Now here I am, about to do the same for Halle Berry. Often strange career choices of star Hilary Swank after winning her Oscars. Last week, when I reviewed The Reaping, I commented on the
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