Charlotte Willmore (Allison Williams) is in Shanghai where she befriends fellow cellist Lizzie (Logan Browning). There is a sickness spreading from the south. The women have a sexual encounter. They're on a bus when Lizzie starts to get sick. She throws up maggots and they are thrown off the bus in the middle of nowhere. Anton (Steven Weber) is the head of Bachoff Academy and Paloma (Alaina Huffman) is his wife.

Without knowing anything about this movie, the biological horror of the first act seems intriguing. I can do without the bus driver's over-acting although in a way, his falseness plays into the paranoia mentality of the story. The plot's turn after turn can be interesting but it also lacks the road map to make it truly compelling. It's hard to maintain rooting interest when the lead is changed from one to the other and back. There is an interesting premise here but it needs more careful planning to be a great film.

When the mother of the teenage violoncellist Charlotte Willmore (Allison Williams) has a serious stroke, she quits her promising career to take care of her mother. When her mother dies years later, Charlotte contacts her mentor Anton (Steven Weber) from the Bachoff Academy in Boston, and his wife Paloma (Alaina Huffman). She travels to Shanghai to meet their new prodigy Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Logan Browning) and they befriend each other. Lizzie is on vacation and they go to a night-club, drink a lot and have sex in Charlotte´s room. Lizzie invites Charlotte to travel on vacation with her and they travel together by bus. But soon, strange things happen to Lizzie in the beginning of a weird journey with many twists.

"The Perfection" is an entertaining but absolutely unbelievable film. The great screenplay uses flashbacks and many plot points that make the story funny, romantic, full of thriller and horror. The conclusion is sinister and bizarre. My vote is six.

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The movie is easy to take apart. For something that works with twists, everything is easily taken apart. Still the movie is fun to watch, if you just go through it without much thinking. Because as I said and as will be able to testify yourself: the plot is a mess! The acting is not a mess and the main actresses are beautiful to watch, no matter what situation.

The inciting incident does not make much sense and many who have seen Allison in a different movie will be able to get something out of that - then again, maybe that is not what it seems? And that is the (main) attraction of the movie, not knowing. But the ending is quite satisfying in a twisted and morbid kind of way (not for the faint of heart then).