 | MOVIE DETAILS • Name: Perfect Creature • Year: 2006 • Country: New Zealand, UK • Director: Glenn Standring • Main cast: Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows, Leo Gregory • Runtime: 90 minutes • Production company: Roc Media, Sensible Films, Spice Factory, Movision Entertainment, New Zealand Film Commission TRAILER |
Oh, vampires. Who doesn’t love vampires? The eternal romantics, but also one of the most punished monsters of modern time movies. And in this case, luckily, with some little modifications from the classics, some fresh air. Because it’s a movie with vampires, but it’s also basically a thriller.
And the startpoint has a pretty interesting approach. We find ourselves in fake reality. A mix between Sherlock Holmes’ Whitechapel and nowadays. Vampires and humans have been co-existing peacefully for centuries. The vampires, known as The Brothers, are superior beings (stronger, faster and smarter than regular humans), but they live prisoners of their own condition. They need fresh blood to live, but there is no need to murder to get it. They get it in exchange of sharing their superior intellect and their technologic advances.
But this fragile equilibrium gets broken when a renegade vampire builds a virus and threats human kind. And then, what seems to be fantastic and attractive a kind of Jack the Ripper scenario turns into a not so original thriller, the kind we’ve seen many times.
To summarize, the begining of the movie is very interesting. An alteration of a mythical character and a set up absorving enough to make you think this could be a special movie. But as the plot goes on, originality fades away and the regular detectives intrigue with no surprises takes over.
About the technical aspects, filming and editing are okay. The cast is effective enough. Plenty of faces you might find familiar, but you won’t know from where and what are the names. Also, it looks more like a 90s movie, more than from the 2000s, hard to explain but if you see the movie you will know what I mean.
Nothing else to stand out, neither a good or a bad thing. This movie won’t enter any list, not as the worst genre films, not as the best ones. But still, it’s entertaining. It’s a little movie not very known, and that makes it enjoyable enough.
RATE: 6/10
IMDB URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0403407
