Perfect Life starts as best friends & college students Jack Parson (Jesse Bradford) & Freddy Langham (Scot Williams) are trying to get into a trendy fraternity, Jack is a drug addicted loser while Freddy has rich English parents & wants for nothing. The only thing that Freddy wants but cannot buy is his childhood sweetheart Anne (Sienna Guillory) while Jack also wants Anne & the two start having an affair behind Freddy's back. After a night of 'airbagging' Freddy heads home to England & invites his friends along as well, there Jack tells Freddy about his affair with Anne. As expected Freddy doesn't take the news that well & locks his friends in his wine cellar but something isn't right, Jack has to face up to reality, a reality he might not like...
This Luxembourg & American co-production was directed by Josef Rusnak & I have to say right away that I though Perfect Life was absolutely dire, maybe I watched it at a bad time but I thought Perfect Life epitomises everything that I hate about modern horror thriller cinema. The script is an incoherent mess, from the broken time-line that switches back & forth for no apparent reason to the predictable & bland twist's that offer no surprises to constant reworking of reality as certain things are real, certain things are hallucinations while other's are distortions of the truth. This constant annoying & seemingly random way the script switches from reality to dream to flashback to ambiguity leads nowhere & only really stretches an already overlong & boring film out even more. The twist ending doesn't have much to do with the rest of the film & a lot of what happens seems unrelated. At 100 odd minutes I was bored to tears, I really haven't been so bored is disinterested in a film while watching for a long time. The character's are horrible, they are really unlike model like teenagers from selfish drug addicts to rich idiots. The plot really makes no sense, just a collection of pointless dreams, flashbacks & half truth's I really disliked Perfect Life & thought it made little cohesive sense.
To be honest I am not even sure what type or style of film the makers were going for, is Perfect Life a horror or a thriller or a drama? Maybe Perfect Life tries to be all three yet succeeds at being none. There's a dead body, some severed fingers, a bit of bad language & some tame sex in order to get an adult rating but Perfect Life could easily have been rated 'PG' with a few minor edits. Perfect Life is set partly in the US & partly here in the UK, the bright cinematography & picture perfect cast of teens just gives this a really bland feel.
The IMDb says Perfect Life had a budget of about $10,000,000 which frankly astounds me, where did all the money go? This was apparently filmed in London, Luxembourg & Rome in Italy. Although shot back in 2004 this wasn't released until 2010 because one of the production companies went bankrupt (spending ten million on this crap probably didn't help, did it?). The acting isn't great, all the character's end up really unlikable & therefore Perfect Life is a very difficult film to enjoy.
Perfect Life is a terrible film, it's not really the sort of film that I would normally watch but it was on telly for free & it sounded like a horror film, I wish that I hadn't bothered now. From an abysmal script that abruptly changes from reality to dream to flashback at random to a terrible twist ending that has been done before & been done better. Perfect Life thinks it's clever, it's not.
This Luxembourg & American co-production was directed by Josef Rusnak & I have to say right away that I though Perfect Life was absolutely dire, maybe I watched it at a bad time but I thought Perfect Life epitomises everything that I hate about modern horror thriller cinema. The script is an incoherent mess, from the broken time-line that switches back & forth for no apparent reason to the predictable & bland twist's that offer no surprises to constant reworking of reality as certain things are real, certain things are hallucinations while other's are distortions of the truth. This constant annoying & seemingly random way the script switches from reality to dream to flashback to ambiguity leads nowhere & only really stretches an already overlong & boring film out even more. The twist ending doesn't have much to do with the rest of the film & a lot of what happens seems unrelated. At 100 odd minutes I was bored to tears, I really haven't been so bored is disinterested in a film while watching for a long time. The character's are horrible, they are really unlike model like teenagers from selfish drug addicts to rich idiots. The plot really makes no sense, just a collection of pointless dreams, flashbacks & half truth's I really disliked Perfect Life & thought it made little cohesive sense.
To be honest I am not even sure what type or style of film the makers were going for, is Perfect Life a horror or a thriller or a drama? Maybe Perfect Life tries to be all three yet succeeds at being none. There's a dead body, some severed fingers, a bit of bad language & some tame sex in order to get an adult rating but Perfect Life could easily have been rated 'PG' with a few minor edits. Perfect Life is set partly in the US & partly here in the UK, the bright cinematography & picture perfect cast of teens just gives this a really bland feel.
The IMDb says Perfect Life had a budget of about $10,000,000 which frankly astounds me, where did all the money go? This was apparently filmed in London, Luxembourg & Rome in Italy. Although shot back in 2004 this wasn't released until 2010 because one of the production companies went bankrupt (spending ten million on this crap probably didn't help, did it?). The acting isn't great, all the character's end up really unlikable & therefore Perfect Life is a very difficult film to enjoy.
Perfect Life is a terrible film, it's not really the sort of film that I would normally watch but it was on telly for free & it sounded like a horror film, I wish that I hadn't bothered now. From an abysmal script that abruptly changes from reality to dream to flashback at random to a terrible twist ending that has been done before & been done better. Perfect Life thinks it's clever, it's not.