 Thanks for checking out this no spoilers movie review. This is for the 2018 Netflix film The Perfection it is a horror film like the majority of these Reviews that I do. So this is one that I had actually heard a bunch about a bunch of buzz online of people like oh, it's so gross It's so disturbing. I felt like I had to take a shower afterwards had to clean myself up and I Having watched the whole thing now. I Don't agree with that. I think it's one of those instances where If people went into it and they are not horror fans typically or they haven't seen a lot of horror movies I could see where that is the case for them But if you're watching this and you're like, I'm a horror fan. I've watched lots of horror movies You're gonna be fine and you're gonna say the same thing like I Don't see why people think it's that gross or that disturbing like is there some stuff that can be considered gross and disturbing? Sure, but has it is it wholly new are there a lot of new things to it? No, the gross and disturbing stuff is well trodden Ground basically so not a big deal But I will say that when there's that kind of reaction early on to a film it can help drive people to watch it more So it is a good marketing thing and that's actually happened with films in the theater as well I think the Eli Ross original hostile film kind of had that. It's like it's so intense It doesn't look away like people were passing out, you know, whenever you hear those type things It actually drives more people to go check it out because some people are like well I'm down to test my limits or let's see if this is accurate. So I Partially saw this movie because of that. So it worked in getting me to watch it, but No, I didn't think it was all that gross or disturbing, but I will say I think this movie kind of sucks actually I think probably about the first 30 minutes or so were really well done And it was very promising and I saw it going to a really cool place After that it just goes downhill and it goes downhill pretty fast So let me go through my notes. I have on my phone that came up as I was watching it The first portion is there's a character in this by the name of Elizabeth and she is immediately Over-sexualized and when I was watching it it immediately hit me as just being really odd And I was just like oh, that's an odd choice unless it really like comes into play in the story And it ends up being important It's not it's not important It's something that's cheap that filmmakers will use to get people interested and be like oh Sexual content. Oh, you got me you got me interested in some sexual content there And it's cheap and it's stupid and it means nothing for the character and it cheapens the character immediately So I think it actually works against the film and it's dumb And I understand why they put it in to get to a certain spot But there were tons of ways they could have gotten there instead that would have been way better. So Just lazy script writing in my opinion. Um I was starting to get immediately a very strong similarity to another film that that's kind of in the same vein as like Very highfalutin performance. I'm not gonna say what because it might tip people off As to like parallels between that film and this one. So I'm not gonna say specifically But if you're watching this and you've seen it you might know what I'm talking about There's some stuff at least in the first like half hour or so that seemed very similar between these two films So I'm not gonna say what but you know, maybe in the comments if you guess it, I'll tell you um I it did look like one of the things I was impressed with uh, there are people playing the cello in this in this uh film And it did look like the actors actually were playing cello So I don't know if they actually learned and they were playing those songs Or if they just kind of had them miming, but it looked legitimate and that was impressive to me Uh, I thought the cinematography for the cinematography for the most part was quite good Uh, specifically they had early on a bunch of like kind of wide shots Of scenes that looked really cool because they got like a really nice scenery in there And there was a lot going on lot to look at And that's what I kind of like like when you're doing a wide shot in the scene I want to be able to see other stuff going on in there like make it look really interesting to me And I felt like they did that cinematography was pretty solid. I liked it. Um, so There are a lot of scenes in this that just stretch They unnecessarily stretch the scenes. They seem to go way too long and there's no importance to that I mean, I guess you could kind of argue that they're trying to make people more uncomfortable, which sure In certain instances. I understand that that could make sense But there are a lot of scenes that kind of come up where you're just like Okay We we got the point can we move on now? Let's let's keep it moving. This movie's about an hour and a half Maybe an hour and a half an hour and 40 minutes and it seems like it's a lot longer, which is problematic Um, though, there are just a lot of scenes that really should have been cut down a lot more So the editing was kind of an issue Um, there's no excuse for that. You shouldn't let these scenes go on too long And that kind of leads to another issue with this film, which is Treating the audience like they're stupid Um, and and that's like with with having the scenes go way too long It seemed like they were trying to be like, do you get it? Do you get it now? Well, we're not sure you got it yet. So we'll keep it going. Do you get it now? And it's I hate that stuff when you treat your audience like idiots And this came into play as well where they literally had one of the characters Explain themselves completely like all their motivations like well, I did this because of this and here's my backstory and like Through dialogue, they're saying all this stuff and it's like How awful can you be in your writing? That is terrible. You never do that crap. You show it You don't say it. This is film making 101 Don't say it show it. You're treating your audience like morons when you're literally having the character Explain themself to another character or to the camera and that literally happens in this film and it drives me crazy I think it's awful The filmmaker you should be ashamed of yourself because you're treating the audience like morons Which means you think you're better than everyone is how I mean, that's how it comes off Maybe you don't actually think that but that's how it comes off when you do film this way The other thing is there are a bunch of twists in this film And some of the twists I like the idea behind them and with a much better Um structured and written script they really could have worked And that's kind of one of the big themes here is there were a bunch of good ideas. They were just executed in a very bad way And um, but one of the problems is with a bunch of these twists that get thrown in and how they're executed It kind of makes it seem like The filmmakers just like Look how smart I am Aren't I smart? I'm really smart And then when you actually like think about it in the context of the world that was created And what these twists mean and how these twists impact things They don't make sense Like the the actual twist itself will kind of make sense But the ramifications it would actually have had and the motivations for characters to be involved in the twists Or for them to go from decision point a to decision point b Don't make sense. It's just a convenience of writing. It's like then we go from here to here Why not because it makes sense just because that's what I felt like doing So the fact that this This writer director is basically just like yes, I'm so clever. I'm so smart Um No, you just think you are you just think you are sorry Uh, and you you did one of the worst things by making your audience feel like you're talking down to them At numerous points during the film hate it um There oh the other one of the one of the big things that really got me is there's There's a moment in this film that uses actually a few moments that use CGI and it looks awful The CGI in this film is bad Uh, and nowadays there's really no excuse for that unless it's a sci-fi made for a sci-fi movie Netflix has money. Netflix has all the money at this point. So Inexcusable that CGI should be much better. It was garbage Uh, I saw the twist coming. I saw one of the big twists coming Um, I don't think that's so much that it was um What's the word I'm looking for that it that it was revealed too much through clues I'm just a hyper aware watch Audience member. I'm always that way my wife hates it because I always watch a movie from the standpoint of Even the smallest thing that's in there. It's in there for a reason A lot of the times filmmakers aren't just putting in scenes or Character flaws or character quarks or whatever just because they're putting it in because it has Relevance it's important. So I pay hyper attention to a lot of things Especially when I'm watching them to do a review like this. So just makes sense. But I saw it coming um Not that it was What's the There's a specific word I'm looking for I can't come up with enough But it it wasn't spoiled by the filmmaking The overreaction to how gross it is Uh, the over explaining terrible So it's really weird in this film because the acting is going well Like the acting is actually pretty good in it up to a certain point. I think we you get to like the The point where there's maybe like a half half an hour ish left in the film For some reason that everyone's acting goes downhill So I gotta assume that has something to do with what the director was trying to pull out of people Or I don't know if everyone just started feeding off of each other and Someone started acting poorly and then everyone else just followed suit I don't know but it's really weird because the acting's really good And then the last half hour or so Everyone's acting just goes downhill and it it's just weird. I don't get it It was a really odd thing that happened. I was just like what is going on Um, do do do Oh, this is another thing this goes along with the CGI issue Literally, there's a moment in the film toward the end where there's a a cut Where they're they're showing a character And literally someone bumps the camera Like you can't see the person's like armor legged, you know Excuse me, whatever bumps it, but you see the camera just go like that Like the shot goes like that and I rewound it and I rewatched it and I watched it in the context of What was going on in the in the scene and it doesn't fit into the scene It has nothing to do with it. It was not intentional So literally they're shooting a scene someone bumps the camera and they left it in Come on once again filmmaking 101 You don't leave that stuff in there. That's terrible. I assume that's on the editor the person who edited the film. That's bad In the end, I think the film is just absurd I think a lot of the twists that they threw and they they tried to do too much They had some good ideas. They executed it poorly. The script was not good It needed a lot of passes if they would have just kept the first half an hour or so and Strip things down a little bit tried to keep it a little more simple take out some of the twists and Just go with what is a better story not I have this idea and I have this idea and I have this idea And I really want to use them all. So let's just figure out a way to just jam them in It doesn't work It just it just doesn't work and it just like I said it turned out being absurd And there are a lot of things they just do in the end It's just like just because and you you know some of it They're just trying to get shock value and it just comes off as ridiculous and absurd and I didn't like it Um But yeah, the last thing I wrote is just there was some good ideas here. It's just the story didn't come together It wasn't well structured Someone else really needed to take a look at that script and go over it and clean it up because it turns into a mess It's not good So um in the end, I'm always doing my my star ratings on these reviews out of five stars with haves in play I got to go one and a half stars on this film. It is not good I do not recommend it if you are really one of those people who's like Well, I want to see what people are talking about with the grossness and disturbing and stuff like that fine Go ahead and see it, but you've been warned I'm telling you it's not very good. Um, although, you know, there might be some people out there who are like Oh, I actually really enjoyed it. And if that's the case, that's fine If you if you can give people a reason why you legitimately enjoyed that film That's all good because I know there are films that I've watched that people think are terrible, but I will swear they're great Or at least like good like I'll tell you right now. I really like the movie hackers I know it's not a good movie, but there's something about it. I really like that film. So I don't know but um, yeah, I I wasn't going to give this two stars but the The how condescending the film is to the audience is just That knocked it down another half star on its own. So I was just like, uh, good. Good. God It's bad. 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