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The Perfect Host (2010)

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Date: 17 Aug 2011 13:11:03
The Perfect Host (2010)

The Perfect Host (2010)
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Genre: Crime, Thriller | 1 win | USA

A wanted criminal finds he's the one in danger when he hides out in the house of a seemingly ordinary man in this thriller from Australian director Nick Tomnay. John Taylor (Clayne Crawford) is a thief who is having an especially bad day; he was part of a bank robbery that went spectacularly wrong, leaving him with a seriously injured foot and his description being broadcast by every news outlet in the city. John needs to get off the streets fast, so he stops at a nearby home and bluffs his way inside, telling the man of the house, Warwick Wilson (David Hyde Pierce), that he's a friend of a friend and was told to drop by sometime. Warwick buys John's story, and even invites him to stay for dinner, but before long John realizes he picked the wrong house to pull this scam. Warwick is a perfect gentleman on the outside, but inside he's an angry and unstable person, and when he finds out that John isn't an ordinary visitor, he's in for a fight for his life. The Perfect Host was an official selection at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

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Warwick Wilson (David Hyde Pierce) is preparing for a dinner party with his friends. His house is spotless and appointed in hip and trendy furniture. The wines, red and white, are chilled. The main course is perfectly timed and will be ready exactly at the right moment. Meanwhile, John Taylor (Clayne Crawford) is a bank robber with a seriously injured foot. He’s hunting through the city for a place to hideout for the night until he can make his getaway the following morning and has found himself outside Warwick’s door. Having swiped information from Warwick’s mailbox, he manages to con his way inside and seems to be set for a perfect, quiet evening. After all, Warwick’s even having that big dinner party! However, John should be very careful to keep his temper and violence in check… because there’s far more to Warwick than meets the eye.

The Perfect Host (2010)

There is more to the story than this, but I’d be doing an injustice to the film if I revealed anything else. The Perfect Host, the debut feature from director Nick Tomnay, works because of David Hyde Pierce, the liberal amounts of dark humor, and how effectively much of it is shot. When I initially mentioned I was reviewing “a new David Hyde Pierce movie” to a friend, he immediatelyThe Perfect Host - Warwick carrying wine thought of Niles Crane from “Frasier”. While there’s a bit more to Pierce’s character than that, there is also a substantive amount of Niles here too. This all works in The Perfect Host with Pierce as a legitimately funny foil to John’s well-played conman. It can go a little over-the-top at times, but overall it’s a very likeable performance that plays perfectly into the dark comedy in the script. One example is when John reveals his grisly foot injury and drips blood on Warwick’s floor. Warwick, presently under duress, promptly becomes visibly unsettled by it and quickly promises to help John with it. He grabs a cloth, runs over, and… cleans the blood off the floor instead much to John’s anger. Moments like that are why this movie is very much a darkly comic thriller more than your average “cat-and-mouse” thriller. While some of the jokes might feel weird, unsettling, or strange in the context of how they appear, just about all of them still hit their mark and at least elicit a groan, smile, chuckle.

The Perfect Host (2010)

Visually, Writer/Director Tomnay is able to combine a few different styles of filmmaking to create his final product. In particular, for reasons I can’t fully explain due to spoilers, the shots in Warwick’s house are brilliant, keeping the viewer in the same deeply confused state as one of the characters. He subtly shows certain elements through his shots and set design as well, like swords in a not-out-of-place rack on the wall, that quietly foreshadow possible use later on. The editing is also very The Perfect Host - dinner party in progresseffective. In an early pre-title sequence, The Perfect Host feels more action-packed and serious as we quickly follow John’s attempts to arrange his getaway and get rid of evidence. There’s also a great sequence intercutting Warwick and John playing a game of chess with a scene of John doing the same with his girlfriend, underlining differences in the tone and events surrounding the two scenes.

The Perfect Host (2010)

Unfortunately, the editing is not quite as effective in early flashbacks. Flashbacks are generally not a bad idea in a film, but they have to make sense as to why they’re there and how they’re used. The Perfect Host gets the “why” right, explaining more of John’s backstory. It’s the “how” it screws up by initially using them very quickly and with odd blurring not seen much otherwise in the film. While the flashbacks get clearer as the movie goes on, their initial usage definitely takes the viewers out of certain scenes and confuses them.

The Perfect Host (2010)

While The Perfect Host is an EXCELLENT dark comedy, it’s not as good a thriller as it could be and, thus, doesn’t feel like a “complete” film. When the viewer is supposed to be feeling unsettled at some points, the degree of tension is undercut by just how weird and bizarre some of the goings-on are. Without spoiling, I imagine that scenes involving a conga line and a “Gillman” mask are meant to be somewhat chilling, but the events themselves are so funny and weird that the viewer doesn’t feel the fear the director may have intended.

In the end, I highly recommend The Perfect Host as a fun, quirky dark comedy, not as a gripping thriller. It’s well-acted, generally well-shot, and has a uniquely funny script. I definitely liked this particular soiree overall… would have liked it more had the suspense been handled better.
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