This is a mostly expository film, so if you don't like people yammering, you're prolly not gonna like it.I agree with many others that the film breaks some good rules such as:Complete lack of sympathetic characters. The ostensible protagonist is a jerk. His main business rival is a smarmy clown, like a real life Sideshow Bob ffs. The two burglars are ciphers until the very end and then the main one just comes across as a pathetic idiot.And the end is the worst part. All this build up and then there's no release, no cathartic moment, no resolution at all. The film does contain an interesting take on the potential upsides and downsides to widespread genetic testing, but it fails as a film.I don't regret watching it, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone not already interested in the debate within. And I certainly will never watch it again.

Review -- The Perfect 46 was supposed to be a science fiction movie but, this science is actually fact! There are several start-up companies using the concept of DNA matchmaking today, just google "DNA romance".I felt the directors took this concept in an unlikely direction and turned the idea of DNA matchmaking into Frankenstein's monster. I felt they missed the real value people would see in a DNA based matchmaking. The perfect 46 pretends that DNA based matchmaking will only give health reports and the idea has no other value. Education -- Unlike what is described in the perfect 46 there are no companies offering health based compatibility reports. The approach these DNA matchmaking companies use for compatibility reports is based on opposite HLA genes, meaning the have couple will have biological chemistry, they will find that their partners odor smells sexy.

This film had an interesting concept, but lacked all elements that make a film watchable. The dialogue alone made me want to pull my hair out. It takes question and answer dialogue to a whole new meaningless level. The lead actor had no connection to anything and was excruciating to watch. The ending was so anticlimactic and predictable, but also confusing and cliché'. I'm confused as to what the director was trying to say with this film. There wasn't any address to why the main character wanted this so badly. If he wanted to just help people, why did he charge money for the service? Did he hate having OCD so much that he created this formula? And why was the OCD never mentioned? I was counting down the minutes for this boring, pointless film to just end.

The Perfect 46The Perfect 46 follows in a recent trend in science fiction, that is more interested in exploring the potential of human experience than actually depicting that future through CGI and fancy sets. The Perfect 46 offers new slant on this trend though; whereas the work of Shane Carruth, Gareth Edwards and Duncan Jones focuses on ordinary people dealing with future concepts. The Perfect 46 looks at the experience of the person who has invented the new 'thing' and who has to take responsibility for it when it fails. That person is Jesse Darden, creator of theperfect46.com: a website service which takes the genome sequence of you and your partner and tells you the likelihood of any future child inheriting a life altering condition. The film is an interesting mix of stories than depict Jesse's life in various different ways. Snapshots of his personal life and the business' development are contrasted with a tense and slightly sinister break-in at Jesse's home and the discovery, by one of the burglars, of a TV-style documentary about the company and Jesse (which does well to provide all the contextual information and science-fictionally elements of the plot). In combining these elements the film is able to convey a lot of information whilst still having the space to explore the impact of theperfect46.com in a more naturalistic way. The central example being an extended dinner party scene, where the guests challenge Jesse on his ideals and a technology conference where Jesse spells out his idealistic view of theperfect46.com.These aspects of the film are so unusual and well conceived that it is almost disappointing that the film takes a more emotional turn in the ending, revealing the motivation of one of the burglars is connected to a very personal experience. The Perfect 46 is a remarkably brave film that deals with the difficult topic of eugenics, calls into question the responsibility of the dotcom tycoons who have a significant affect on everyday lives and doing so without grandstanding special effects but with a naturalistic and intricate script and an outstanding central performance by Whit Hertford.