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Perfect Creature
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows
Directed By: Glenn Standring
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543450030
Format: AC-3
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-07-17
Running Time: 88
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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An action-packed battle against man and beast! Half-man, Half-vampire, Pure Evil! Perfect Creature is set in a world where humans genetically engineer vampires to be the next step in their evolution. Chaos breaks loose when the delicate balance is destroyed by a virus that turns one species against the other. The only way to restore peace is for the two opposing races to work together to end the chaos.
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Summary: Not so bad, but a wasted opportunity
Comment: If what you are looking is a horror movie, you will likely be disappointed by this one. The strength of "Perfect Creature" does not lie in scares or gore (there is some of both, but likely not enough to satisfy horror fans), but in good direction and decent/good acting. And as another reviewer has written, the best quality of this movie is perhaps its being very "atmospheric".
The alternate Dickensian world where humans and genetically-engineered "vampires" coexist is interesting, well depicted and somewhat credible. At the same time, I found the movie promising but ultimately disappointing. Lots of potential depth not really exploited, with many underdeveloped and somewhat obscure metaphors scattered around the storyline. Who are these super-gifted and altruistic "vampires" supposed to represent in "our" world? The (one) Church? Science? None of these make much sense.
While the first half of the movie was compelling and promising, I found the second half (which I won't describe in any detail to avoid spoilers) too short, hurried and vastly incomplete. This could have been a great starter for a TV series, but as a self-contained movie there is not enough time to know their characters, their stories and their motivations. The ending is what I liked the least, leaving lots of questions unanswered, closing some plots but not others while opening new ones in a rushed way, blatantly to leave doors open for a sequel that may or may not appear.
Overall, not a bad movie, but the actors, the material and the direction of this movie deserved a better screenplay. It is not so surprising that in the US this one went straight to DVD, without being shown in theaters.
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Summary: Steampunk Perfection
Comment: Late last year I read the amazing book Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale, an anachronistic mash-up of futuristic sci-fi technology and Victoriana, that served as my introduction to "steampunk," a genre of literature and film that I'd never heard of before.
Perfect Creature, like Hale's book, is a steampunk thriller that pairs up a stoic police officer (Saffron Burrows) and an ethereal non-human (Dougray Scott) in a murder investigation/manhunt.
It takes place on a "world not unlike our own" where horsedrawn carriages share the streets with London black cabs, while dirigibles float silently overhead. Despite the fact that the Jamestown slums, with their rampant poverty and workhouses, seem to harken back to Dickens's Victorian England, the technology is straight out of WWII and fashion seems to span the better part of the Twentieth Century. In lesser hands, this all might have come off as cheesy, but the art direction is amazing and it was easy and enjoyable to be a part of this world for an all too brief 85 minutes. [Brevity being yet another quality it shares with Ginn Hale's book.]
Beyond the incredible worldbuilding, Perfect Creature offers moving performances by the three leads as well as the entire supporting cast. There's not a clunker in the bunch. Dougray Scott (who left me cold in Drew Barrymore's delightful Ever After) puts in a restrained and ultimately heartbreaking performance as the lonely priest/vampire and Saffron Burrows is affecting as the police captain who has never recovered from the loss of her husband and young daughter to influenza.
Where a Hollywood genre film will always sacrifice emotional impact for a cheap throwaway "catch phrase," this film has none of that. It's serious and heartfelt. When someone dies, even a minor character, we are given a glimpse into the sadness of the survivor(s) and through them, we grieve too. The writer/director doesn't underestimate the intelligence of his audience; we're allowed to understand all the characters, even if we don't like them. Plus it's deeply romantic. I actually cried near the end. I never, and I mean NEVER, cry at the end of films like this. But really, my point is, there are no films like this. This isn't your typical vampire film. This is an entirely different animal. I mean, for heaven's sake, there's even an homage of sorts to one of my favourite German art-house flicks - Wings of Desire. Your typical C-Grade Hollywood vampire movie (Blood Rayne, anyone?) - this is not.
On the surface, this film might be compared to the stylish Russian sci-fi films Night Watch/Day Watch, but it has much more heart. And there is no US film that comes close. Everything that the Underworld, Blade and Matrix films want to be, this film is. And then some.
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Summary: Not what others say it would be
Comment: I haven't saw this movie before, the comments, reviews and the synopsis made me bought it.
If u want action, a new kind of creature, like in Underworld, maybe vampires against werewolfs, this is not the movie you're looking for. It has a good story but not enough for the freaky guys out there.
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Summary: Don,t buy
Comment: I got this CD for free from Pepsi points. If I had spend money on it I would be really upset. If you a fan on vampire movies very disappointing. Reminded me on a bad version of Blade and Resident Evil in the 1800 Century. Don't waste your money if you really whant to see it, rent it.
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Summary: Not bad with Saffron Burrows
Comment: Saffron Burrows from Boston Legal stars in Perfect Creature as a police officer who is hunted by a rather powerful vampire. While this movie does get dull in parts, the fight scenes are very good. Plus, Burrows is quit pleasant to look at.
I rate this movie with 4 stars-
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