Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) by Bernadettedev. — 26 Dec 2006

There is continual note of the difficulty of turning Suskind's book into a film; however this was the task undertaken, and as such the film has to be considered as a singular work, lest we should never review anything negatively because we sympathise with the toils and troubles of production/finance/plot etc.

The film, simply, looked pretty good and was acted fairly well. However these achievements are routinely reached with a little bit of cash. Aside from that it failed to suspend disbelief, failed to build an attachment with the audience to any one of its characters, and three quarts of the way through descended into utter ridiculousness and never looked back.

The pitiful ending was to be expected; nothing could save it after it had fallen so spectacularly. There are a thousand films which manage to combine excellent cinematography, acting and production with an engaging and interesting plot, and those films should be seen before bothering with this one.