Perfect Sense

Released: 2011
Drama, Downer
Director: David Mackenzie
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Eva Green
Running Time: 92 minutes
Rated: R

The breakdown: As the world is enveloped in a disease that slowly takes away all your senses, a scientist and a chef fall in love.


So, from the description, I knew the movie might not be good.  It turned out, it was pretty terrible.
The acting was fine, but the story is so depressing and moves really slow that I checked my watch a lot to see when this movie was going to end.

First people start to get emotionally overwhelmed then they lose their sense of smell.  The scientists are alerted to the possibility that this is a disease when it starts spreading all over the world.  They are at a complete loss as the cases all over the world had no contact with each other.  They don't know if it's a virus, a terrorist attack, environmental, or something else.
Meanwhile the chef takes a smoke break outside the restaurant he works at and starts talking to the scientist through her window while she's at home.  They start a relationship and watch the world around them fall apart.  Soon people lose their sense of taste and the restaurant, of course, is not serving any patrons.  Soon people go into a fit of rage, then lose their hearing.  Finally at the end of the movie they lose their sight and there's no progress whatsoever from the scientific or medical community on what caused this or how to fix it.

Super, super depressing and just not enough subject matter to drive the story anywhere.  I was a bit bored by the characters and the story line and from the beginning, you know these people are all going to lose all their senses.  This was a bad, no, extremely bad idea for a film.

Do not bother to see this one.
1 and 1/2 for Ewan McGregor's full frontal nakedness and good performances from Ewan and Eva, but not much else.