Review of Perfect Creature (2007) by Shane K — 18 Dec 2009

This film is an example of fairly interesting premise with fairly botched delivery. If you haven't heard of it, well you're probably not alone I only discovered it on tv the other week. I saw the premise in a digital tv programme guide & decided there were worse ways to spend eighty minutes.

Yeah it's mercifully short. The program guide told of a film about a world where Vampires & Humans live in harmony until a chosen one throws the balance out of whack which threatens war or armageddon or apocalypse.

... yadda yadda yadda, you're probably thinking. The fact that there vampires isn't supposed to be apparent at first so the program actually contained something of a spoiler. It really did ruin the big reveal that happens after about ten seconds.

The premise as succinctly as I can, alt reality, vampirism was discovered, Genetics science blah blah blah, Vampires become priesthood for some reason, called brotherhood (never referred to as vampires in film), 2 actual brothers (i.

E. have same mother) one is lead brother of brotherhood, other bad brother gone rogue, Lady cop investigates murders by bad brother with help of good brother, good brother falls for lady cop, love triangle, virus outbreak & so on & so on.

Basically the story is fairly Clichéd. The cast consists of Dougray Scott, some other British actors & a bunch of local Nu Zilind ictors in supporting roles. The acting isn't going to trouble the academy but isn't painful to watch either.

Visually it reminded me a lot of Blade 2 & Hellboy while the action in an attempt to match the story in the Cliché department is very influenced by the Matrix(you know wire fu, bullet time, crappy techno music etc.

). To be fair Perfect Creature isn't a horrendous movie it's short run time actually does it a big favour. I did think the alternate reality angle was interesting & the world itself is a sort of pseudo thirties urban dystopia was a nice angle in terms of setting.

For a film with a fairly convoluted it doesn't waste a lot of it's scant runtime on exposition. If you see it on sale don't buy it even from the bargain bin but if you run across it on tv, there are worse ways to kill an hour & a third.