Review of The Perfect Host (2010) by Nate A — 29 Sep 2011

Warwick Wilson: Lighten up, John! It's a party. .

"Dinner Parties Are A Dying Art.".

I'm going to get the little praise I have for The Perfect Host out of the way early. Going into this I didn't expect David Hyde Pierce to be able to pull it off. He did though; he was excellent. He is most famous for his role as Niles on the television show Frasier. Here he does deliver one of the weirder performances you'll ever watch and he is a lot of fun to watch. He saves this movie from being a total disaster and makes it watchable when it really shouldn't be.

So now with that out of the way, I can say what I really think of this movie. It sucks. Plain and simple; it's awful. Pierce's performance can't save a movie that starts at stupid progresses to moronic and ends with a conclusion that is lacks any common sense at all. The movie starts this downfall with a scene that I thought would be the stupidest part of the movie. But shit, it just keeps getting stupider when you think it can't get any worse. Plot twist after fucking plot twist lead this into the depths of hell when it comes to storytelling.

It's funny that I hate this as much as I do because even with how much I disliked what I was watching, it was still easy to watch and I found the hour and a half run to fly by. I was actually entertained with how the movie progressed and managed to one up itself in the dumb department at every turn. .

Honestly I have no idea what this movie was or how to classify it. It's definitely not a horror film. I wouldn't go as far as to say it's particularly thrilling. It's funny, but funny bad, not funny like it's a comedy. It's a strange film that is unlike anything you'll ever see. .