Purely Joyful Movie!

just watch it!

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

PERFECT CREATURE is yet ANOTHER film about a future society where vampires co-exist with mankind in their own society. Yes, exactly the same type of themes that have been previously explored in the likes of BLADE, UNDERWORLD, ULTRAVIOLET, and about another zillion films I can think of. Because the setting is so familiar, PERFECT CREATURE really needed a strong storyline to make it stand out from the crowd, but you're not going to get one here.Instead what we have is a predictable action-thriller about the search for a psychotic killer. The villain of the piece is an overacting goon who plans to destroy humankind once and for all by creating a new hybrid (you know, just like in BLADE II, etc.). A human and a vampire must team up to track him down, with the human played by Saffron Burrows (DEEP BLUE SEA) who remains pretty but oddly insubstantial as an actress.As the vampiric antihero, Dougray Scott is a lot better, coming across as really imposing and sinister by underplaying it for all his worth - he's got some of the Japanese 'stone face' going on here. Sadly, the action sequences are all very routine, and the only thing this has going for it is the visual style, which brings a unique version of New Zealand to life in a clever way. At the end of the day, though, PERFECT CREATURE is just too predictable to work.

Wow. What a movie. Not very interesting, not very exciting, not very horrifying and, especially, not very nice to look at. Striking, certainly, and original in many respects, but pretty unattractive.It's a shame. This parallel world tale of a symbiotic relationship between vampires and humans being put at risk by a lunatic vampire terrorist should have been much more engaging than it was but it did not, in any way, grab my attention to any serious extent - the only character to make any mark was the main baddie, and that was only because he was so unpleasant. But his unpleasantness was very one-note, and I didn't want to spend time in his company.However, the film is well enough made that, if you're in tune with it, you'll enjoy it.

Perfect Creature is set in a city called Jamestown where a brotherhood of Vampires live alongside humans in supposed harmony, it has been this way for 300 years but one brother Edgar (Leo Gregory) has developed a taste for human blood & has been feasting on local young ladies while his brother Silus (Dougray Scott) hunts him. Local police detective Lilly (Saffron Burrows) learns the truth behind the dead bodies turning up & tries to keep it quiet as widespread panic would break out, together with brother Silus the police & Lilly set out to find & kill Edgar but there's more to what Edgar is doing than just killing a few girls as he releases a virus which turns humans into ravenous Vampires. Jamestown is quarantined & the authorities feel complete extermination of everyone within it is the only answer including thousands of innocent uninfected humans...This New Zealand & British co-production was directed by Glenn Standring & is a sort of moody atmospheric Vampire horror thriller that had the potential to be great but a lack of focus & a general pedestrainism means I would struggle to even call perfect creature average let alone good. The script is the problem here, there the usual romantic subplot about the two leads falling in love, there's no real explanation given as to why Edgar goes crazy & starts killing people & none of the other Vampires ever has, the whole virus angle is abruptly dropped into the story late on & is never really given a conclusion, there's a subplot about humans dying from flu which is mentioned a few times but nothing significant becomes of it & the typical clichéd final confrontation between the two brother's (hunter & hunted if you prefer) is present & correct although it's totally forgettable & uninspired stuff. The film didn't feel that long & it's visually interesting but the bland character's, the predictable plot, the subplots that go nowhere & add very little to the film overall & a lack of any real entertainment value means it's not really worth making any sort of effort to see.As already mentioned the film does look very good with a variety of different eras & styles used to depict the fictional world seen here, from war torn streets to futuristic labs to Victorian style fantasy with a dark & brooding 40's detective noir thriller feel too, it's quite strange to sit down & watch these contradictory settings & time-lines & decor come together (horse drawn carriages & motor cars on the same roads at one point along with air ships in the sky). There's not much blood or gore here, a few bitten necks & that's about it. The CGI is OK but the early scene of Edgar climbing a wall looks terrible.With a supposed budget of about $11,000,000 this wasn't cheap & that's a decent amount of money & one suspects that most of that went on the production design & look of the film. Filmed in New Zealand. The acting is alright but no-one seems to show much interest & with such thin character's one can hardly blame them.Perfect Creature is average at best, a Vampire horror thriller than could have been great if a bit more time had been spent on the script & a decent story that meant something. It's not terrible & it's interesting visual style is cool but overall I couldn't really recommend it.

As the author of THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY, whose definitions often turn conventional wisdom on its head, Bierce may find the alternate reality portrayed here for his Victorian years preferable to that era as he actually lived it. The idea that people would go to church simply to donate blood toward the substantiation of their big-as-life guardian angels (aka The Brotherhood) doubtless would make more sense to him than any theory of the transubstantiation of an unseen being's blood. The thought that the division between science and religion never occurred would meet with Bierce's conditional approval (though he might find the attendant risks inherent in the Brotherhood's under-the-table genetic experimentation--unchecked by outside religious scruples--troubling). But the Old Gringo probably would be first in line for a ride on a steam dirigible! TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: The body of noted American author (An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge) Ambrose Bierce, born June 24, 1842, recently was discovered in total cryogenic hibernation at the back of a Central American warehouse. Bierce is expected to be fully defrosted by late 2049 or early 2050. Based on my 85 previously posted IMDb comments and background in Bierce studies, the author's guardians have commissioned me to review a periodically updated list of films to help guide his future leisure pursuits, with the provision that my comments also be made available to the general public.