The Perfect Host

The Perfect Host

Thing you must understand is Niles Crane is a bad ass. If you mess with Niles Crane, if you come to his party and insult his fine cooking, mess up his wine…your shit will get pushed in by one Niles Crane. That something one criminal learns in the Perfect Host.  A criminal is wounded and on the run after a robbery gone bad. He needs to hide out. So he cons himself into some nerdy upper class guy’s house, while the man is planning a fancy dinner party. The owner of the house (played Fraisers Brother) seem nice, refine, and being proper and manners to a fault.  When the House host finds out what he doing the criminals things he could just push the guy over. Turns out the owner of the house a sociopath with hallucianation. The house guest seems to be in his head, and the criminal end up getting tied up and torture. The rest of the movie is the criminal trying to get out of there

The story runs into a problem that it nobody to root for that much. It not like the robber is some sort of Robin Hood. He kind of appears to be a Bully who basically doing it for money and to get the girl. But both characters are doucebags...in their own unique ways, dangerous in their own unique way where they play well of each other.   A lot of times their interactions played for Dark Comedy, and seeing inside their heads can be fun. The dream sequences are pretty out there seeing the same scenes through both of their eyes. Seeing David Hyde having imaginary sex can be kind of funny. If mimes did that kind of stuff there me more popular. You do end up rooting for the criminal more, because you identify him more. So he starts to become rootable...because well you’re not going to root for nutty mcnutsack. I mean sure the criminal will rob you, but least he won’t have sex with your corpse afterwards. So you foot for him by default and try to figure out with him how one could get out of this. Where it falls apart is there a part where the movie really should have ended...then it goes into dumb directions...which involve some precog ability of some of the guys, and to many chances. Then they try to sale both guys as geniuses...when they never showed that. It too many twist its own good. Also you got to really like the two characters, sense it basically just them talking through a lot of it, and the other character not, that define.