The Perfect Score (2004)
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Critic Consensus: Neither funny nor suspenseful, this heist / teen flick also fails to explore its potentially socially relevant premise.
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| Rating: | PG-13 (for language, sexual content and some drug references) |
| Genre: | Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Comedy |
| Directed By: | Brian Robbins |
| Written By: | Mark Schwahn, Marc Hyman, Jon Zack |
| US Box Office: | €10.3M |
| Runtime: |
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Cast
as Anna
as Francesca
as Kyle
as Matty
as Desmond
as Roy
as Desmond's Mother
as Larry
as Attractive Woman
as Lobby Guard
as Mr. G
as Kyle's Mother
as Proctor
as Receptionist
as Anna's Mother
as Anna's Father
as Arnie Branch
as Kurt Dooling
as Dave
as ETS Lobby Guard
as Tom Helton
as Francesa's Father
as Illinois Coach
as Kyle's Father
as SWAT Captain
as Test Instructor
as Tiffany
as ETS Woman
as ETS Reception
as Security Guard
as Keyon
as Pregnant Girl
as Girl
as Preppy Boy
as Boy
as ETS Man
as Man in Jail
Critic Reviews for The Perfect Score
All Critics (120) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (90) | DVD (17)
Not terrible, but this MTV teen movie falls flat.
Squarely aimed at teens with little regard for anyone else...
The work of a filmmaker and team of writers so conscious of their own formulaic crutch that they demand a production that feels like more than the sum of its parts.
The Perfect Score is amenable, enjoyable and as quickly forgotten as all those tricks you learned in your SAT prep class.
What could, and should, have been as fun and daring as skipping school turns out to be as dull as a two-hour detention.
The filmmakers need to re-watch "Ocean's Eleven" study up, and remind themselves of this important fact: Even teenagers want a movie that makes them think.
Audience Reviews for The Perfect Score
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I have no doubt in mind that The Perfect Score could have been an effectively edgy and thrilling heist movie, unfortunately it falls to tongue firmly in cheek humour and a lack of epic set pieces. But at times it can be pretty funny, except most of the time it is it's nothing more than mildly amusing. The premise is intelligent, the film not so much but it helms characters you can care about, brilliant performances by Scarlet Johanson and Chris Evans before they did The Avengers and score's a reasonable amount of laughs. However it often suffers staggeringly from the jokes that miss the punch line and the wooden acting of the supporting cast, and a huge lack of action, but what it executes perfectly that a lot of other caper movies are often incapable of doing is maintaining a light enough tone of seriousness. And in addition managing to make the comedy gags inbetween the important plot points work. Overall the chemistry of the ensemble and the handful of funny moments just about class The Perfect Score as a sucessful but unremarkable heist. I enjoyed it a huge amount more than most people who have seen it, without any doubt in mind I think it's Brian Robbin's best film.
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Kids are pretty stupid. SATs really don't mean that much. If they couldn't get into the college they applied, they could've gone to a community college and transferred over. No big deal.
Anyway the movie was kind of boring, and really cliched. Like so many cliches, no joke. I only watched it because I didn't have anything better to do.
Super Reviewer
Francesca: You look like a slut. I like it.
"The S.A.T. is hard to take. It's even harder to steal."
The Perfect Score is a horrible teenage heist comedy that makes no effort to do anything original with it's characters or situations. Some of the worst performances I've ever seen done for cliche teenagers. The worst comes from Leonardo Nam as the "stoner." He talks really slow and with the surfer accent duuude. He gives his best Sean Penn impersonations and guess what; it was pretty shitty. Why Darius Miles was involved; I have no idea. It might of been because of his lack of success in the NBA, but come on. Why would you cast him? He's godawful as the "jock." You got your other cliche characters like the "brains," the "rebel," the "dumb" and the"smart, but not smart enough."
Everything about this movie annoyed the hell out of me, except Scarlett Johansson's looks. Her performance was below average, but she never disappoints. Erica Christensen was also horrible and might have given the second worst performance behind Nam. Her performance was so bad that I'm actually going to say that Darius Miles was better. He's not even a fucking actor. That's how bad Erica is. As for the story; it had potential. It could have been decent, but it never tries to be anything other than a typical bad heist movie. He doesn't seem like anyone really tried.
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