Halle Berry is Rowena Price, hot-shot reporter who has been working on a big story. Everything is nailed down, she and her partner have all the evidence, and the front-page expose' is written. But her editor informs her the story will not be published, it is essentially vaporized. Seems that the target has connections to the newspaper and , well, there are certain things wealthy and powerful men do.
Rowena is naturally put off by this, and decides to approach a new target on her own. Bruce Willis is Harrison Hill a wealthy ad agency man, married, but who doesn't seem to take his vows too seriously. His jeopardy is compounded by the fact that his wife has the money position. A young lady turns up murdered, an old friend of Rowena's, and she thinks Harrison did it. A hunch. So helped by her friend Giovanni Ribisi as Miles Haley, they use email and chat rooms to focus in on Harrison. Plus Rowena gets a 'temp' job in Harrison's firm, and eventually starts up a romantic liaison.
Berry, Willis, and Ribisi are all good, but the story in the end cheats the viewer. Don't read my final comments below if you have not yet seen the movie.
SPOILERS, SPOILERS.
As the story unfolds Harrison looks suspicious and we begin to believe he is the murderer. But Miles also acts suspicious, and we find out he was on the other end of the chat pretending to be Harrison so we start to think he might have done it as part of his obsession with Rowena. However, in the end we find in a flashback that the dead young lady had witnessed something when the two were children, something bad, and Rowena had killed to forever silence her after it appeared she was a threat.
Rowena is naturally put off by this, and decides to approach a new target on her own. Bruce Willis is Harrison Hill a wealthy ad agency man, married, but who doesn't seem to take his vows too seriously. His jeopardy is compounded by the fact that his wife has the money position. A young lady turns up murdered, an old friend of Rowena's, and she thinks Harrison did it. A hunch. So helped by her friend Giovanni Ribisi as Miles Haley, they use email and chat rooms to focus in on Harrison. Plus Rowena gets a 'temp' job in Harrison's firm, and eventually starts up a romantic liaison.
Berry, Willis, and Ribisi are all good, but the story in the end cheats the viewer. Don't read my final comments below if you have not yet seen the movie.
SPOILERS, SPOILERS.
As the story unfolds Harrison looks suspicious and we begin to believe he is the murderer. But Miles also acts suspicious, and we find out he was on the other end of the chat pretending to be Harrison so we start to think he might have done it as part of his obsession with Rowena. However, in the end we find in a flashback that the dead young lady had witnessed something when the two were children, something bad, and Rowena had killed to forever silence her after it appeared she was a threat.