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Perfect Creature...imperfect movie. There is a reason Perfect Creature skipped theaters folks: it's a mess. This is Glenn Standring's second feature and I'm not really excited for his future projects. Perfect Creature centers on a world where vampires and human beings co-exist. The vampires form the Brotherhood, which is basically the Catholic Church, and humans look to them for protection. That is until one vampire, whose reasons still remain unclear to me, starts feeding on humans. If any of this sounds familiar you probably saw another crappy movie called The Breed. In The Breed, a vampire cop and a human cop have to team up to locate and stop a renegade vampire. This is almost the exact plot of Perfect Creature. It even has the same environment: a cold war 1950's-ish atmosphere where the characters look and act like dime novel detectives. Too bad neither movie made good use of this backdrop. Ideas come and go before you can fully understand them. For instance: Why haven't there been any new vampires born? What kind of sickness was the villain possessed with? What exactly was the purpose of the newborn baby at the end? These plot devices scratch the surface and then aren't mentioned again. It's just sloppy all over; the writing, the CGI, the acting. Yes, the acting too. Dougray Scott has no charisma in this role and I feel like he doesn't want to be there. Same thing with Saffron Burrows. These are two actors who are capable of more. The movie is blatantly set up for a sequel, one which I doubt ever gets made.
Perfect Creature...imperfect movie. There is a reason Perfect Creature skipped theaters folks: it's a mess. This is Glenn Standring's second feature and I'm not really excited for his future projects. Perfect Creature centers on a world where vampires and human beings co-exist. The vampires form the Brotherhood, which is basically the Catholic Church, and humans look to them for protection. That is until one vampire, whose reasons still remain unclear to me, starts feeding on humans. If any of this sounds familiar you probably saw another crappy movie called The Breed. In The Breed, a vampire cop and a human cop have to team up to locate and stop a renegade vampire. This is almost the exact plot of Perfect Creature. It even has the same environment: a cold war 1950's-ish atmosphere where the characters look and act like dime novel detectives. Too bad neither movie made good use of this backdrop. Ideas come and go before you can fully understand them. For instance: Why haven't there been any new vampires born? What kind of sickness was the villain possessed with? What exactly was the purpose of the newborn baby at the end? These plot devices scratch the surface and then aren't mentioned again. It's just sloppy all over; the writing, the CGI, the acting. Yes, the acting too. Dougray Scott has no charisma in this role and I feel like he doesn't want to be there. Same thing with Saffron Burrows. These are two actors who are capable of more. The movie is blatantly set up for a sequel, one which I doubt ever gets made.