Perfect

Name: Perfect
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: May 17, 2019
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 36
Cast: Abbie Cornish, Alicia Sanz, Courtney Eaton, Garrett Wareing, Leonardo Nam

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| Release Date: May 17, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Abbie Cornish, Alicia Sanz, Courtney Eaton, Garrett Wareing, Leonardo Nam, Martin Sensmeier, Maurice Compte, Rainey Qualley, Sarah McDaniel, Tao Okamoto, Victor Ortiz

Summary: An emotionally-troubled young man is sent by his mother (Abbie Cornish) to a clinic, where modernist serenity whispers soothing promises of perfection. By planting plug-and-play characteristics directly into his own body, he is relieved of his dark, twisted visions, but his body pays the price for purity of mind.

Director: Eddie Alcazar

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 88 min

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The Film Stage John Fink

May 14, 2019

Upon a first glance, the film is somewhat hollow an experience, offering trite dialogue and an on-the-nose message about beauty and the horrors of genetic engineering taken to their extreme. Read full review

John DeFore

May 14, 2019

While some will embrace the shards as a Shane Carruth-like brain-teaser, the movie is ultimately too reflective of its genetically-engineered subjects — soulless under an entrancing veneer. Read full review

April Wolfe

May 17, 2019

The sheer number of artisans creating great work on this film does become a disappointment, though. Without a proper story or dialogue, what good is skin-deep beauty? Read full review

Amy Nicholson

May 14, 2019

What it means, Alcazar leaves open for interpretation. He’s more a mood maker than a story teller, and the film feels like people watching at a fancy party and inhaling different wafts of perfume. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

May 16, 2019

The upshot is an oppressive, inscrutable puzzle that made me more curious about the inside of Alcazar’s head than that of his tortured subject — the kind of movie that, in some circles, might inspire fetishistic rewatching. Just don’t forget to fire up the bong. Read full review

Noel Murray

May 23, 2019

Perfect also shows that striking images alone aren’t always enough. Alcazar and cinematographer Matthias Koenigswieser have concocted some fine illustrations. Now all they need is some decent text. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

May 14, 2019

Eddie Alcazar’s film is a purposefully inscrutable, wandering, disconnected, symbolic, and highly precious mood bath. Read full review

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thouze

Oct 25, 2019

By design, I should like this movie, maybe even love it. I loved the surrealness and heavy sci-fi themes in films like Annihilation, Ex Machina and even Arrival. But somehow, Perfect left me so cold narratively that I don't know if the film itself built up to anything at all.

TheBy design, I should like this movie, maybe even love it. I loved the surrealness and heavy sci-fi themes in films like Annihilation, Ex Machina and even Arrival. But somehow, Perfect left me so cold narratively that I don't know if the film itself built up to anything at all.

The cinematography and score by Flying Lotus are breathtaking and truly utilize some of the strangely disturbing elements on the screen. It's almost like the filmmakers actively try to ignore the rampant misogyny of women on screen who are either sexualized or beaten constantly. The film leaves out too many details for the plot to make any sense. Instead, the film tries to show every distorted design throughout the movie which ruins the pacing since something is always happening or flying around the screen outside of an extended period near the end that leads the biggest head-scratcher of the entire movie.

Maybe I would like Perfect so much more if there was no narration and if the characters never uddered a single word or maybe not. It wants to match 2001: A Space Odyssey's ambition but doesn't want to take the time to build the tension. All I know now is Perfect is far from its name.… Expand

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