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Best movie ever!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

I have a special place in my heart for this movie. It's a very interesting story and the plot follows a great rate where you keep getting more and more invested in his choices. The characters a beautifully written and you really sense from the beginning that the story is in the characters. Furthermore it's though provoking and has a great ending. It's a little dark and maybe a tiny bit on the nasty side, but it also keeps the mystery going until the very end. Great movie, definitely worth a watch!

I watched this film in two halves over two days. I enjoyed the first half and eagerly anticipated the rest of the movie. I enjoyed its quirkiness, its beautifully convincing sets, its interesting subjects. I wanted to see how the story would unfold as the scent-obsessed man continued down his path of collecting scents and creating perfumes. His accidental killing of one woman and subsequent impulsive murder of a second seemed within the boundaries of good story telling and fit in with his compulsion to collect all scents and create a perfect perfume, and I was not put off by the dark turns.The second half had a completely different tone for me. The obsession with collecting all scents vanished and instead the guy went on a murder spree set to whimsical music, apparently to create a perfume of which all 13 scents in all 4 parts were body odor. Apparently he thought the body odor of attractive young females is their soul and is love and apparently the movie's second half says that he was right.With tires screeching the movie banged a hard right down a dark alley into a stinking rubbish heap. Stalking, murder, absurdity, more absurdity, a massive pointless out-of-place orgy, more absurdity, and the stupidest ending I've ever seen.At first I gave Perfume a 5-star rating, the average of a 10 first half and a 0 second half. But on further reflection, the painfully void and meaningless garbage second half, by not fulfilling any of the promise of the first half, destroyed the first half's meaning too. I give it two stars for the beautiful set work and nothing more.

After recently watching films like personal shopper and the clouds of sils Maria I wanted a film that would ignight the thought process by reading other reviews I thought this would be a brilliant film but perfume just left me feeling uninspired and bored. How disappointing waste of Friday night. I completely got the concept of the film I just thought it was terrible. If you haven't seen the first two films I mentioned above watch them instead and save yourself 2 hours and 27 minuets of boredom. Awful.

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) was born under a fish market table in 18th century France. Hardly a illustrious beginning for one's life, but Grenouille happened to be blessed with a certain extraordinary talent. That of his sense of smell. And when one has nothing else but a singular talent, one should utilize it to one's best ability. Which in this case leads Grenouille down a dark path in his pursuit for the most beautiful fragrance and ways to preserve it.Perfume is a lopsided movie. Its cinematography and visuals are certainly worthy of recognition. It's a beautiful film in every way, even though the early scenes are perhaps even over the top grimy in their depiction of Grenouille's humble beginnings. The acting is also for the most part very good, with Alan Rickman of course completely stealing every scene he's in. Whishaw as the leading man is a bit of a nonentity, but then that's the character. He's an empty person. He is nothing but his sense of smell. That's the character.Unfortunately the storytelling is pretty weak. I haven't read the book, but I've heard quite a bit about it and it seems like they skipped over certain parts, which would have made the story feel more cohesive. Or to be more accurate, they didn't even skip per se. Rather they rushed over them. For example, there's this scene where Grenouille finds a cave curiously lacking in scent. A quiet place for him. In the book this is apparently an important moment for him and quite a lot of time is spent in there. In the movie he crawls into the cave and in the next scene he crawls out. Nothing happened. But hey, the cave was in the book so it should be in the movie as well. Right?The ending is also one that's going to divide opinions. I found it to be extremely over the top and hilarious, but apparently it has been quite moving to some people. To each their own, I suppose, but proceed with caution.All in all it's a movie that I could see myself recommending. It is certainly a very unique story and the technical aspects all work. Not my cup of tea really, but I can tip my hat to its merits.