Perfect Creature Reviews

This is a vampire movie set in an alternate modern-day reality where vampires are humanity's protectors, providing breakthroughs for cures to the deadly viruses. But when one of the Brotherhood goes rogue and starts killing humans a high ranking vampire joins forces with the police to track the killer down.

I found Perfect Creature to have one of the more original concepts for a vampire movie than I've seen in a long time. Though the plot fizzles out towards the end, the mythos laid out is intriguing. I loved the atmosphere of a modern-day Victorian era with steam powered cars, the traveling blimps and the gritty, dirty sets. Just wonderful!

Saffron Burrows plays a kick-ass police captain - I know she looks like she could be blown over by a gust of wind but she really holds her own here. My only disappointment with the acting is that Dougray Scott was too dour.

The special effects are decent enough though some of the fight scenes relies too much on cgi.

All in all, I thought that the first half of Perfect Creature would have made a fantastic short movie but despite its shortcomings, the film is more interesting than other recent vampire movies (Underworld, I'm looking at you).