Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

VividSimon Simply Perfect

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

elshikh4 Maybe the writer of this movie, sat to watch John Hughes's The Breakfast Club (1985), many times, thought about its own leads; these high school different students, whom pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they imagined, then wrote about the idea of them meeting in a night robbery, instead of a morning detention. Or that what eventually seemed !The premise is fine. A heist comedy with heart; where there are 1) Thrill. 2) Comedy. 3) Some drama. I loved points in the script; from situations like when the brainy girl had to get into the already being stolen building; for the heck of it, to touches like the double meaning in the title. The cast is very good. Scarlett Johansson is sexy and talented. Erika Christensen is yet more sexy. Enough to mention that while her running scene, my heart was beating like crazy ! Leonardo Nam is great as the funny stoner, being the biggest comedy this movie has. Even real-life school basketball star Darius Miles manages to do his job so convincingly. Only Chris Evans and Bryan Greenberg aren't charismatic enough. But anyway, Erika Christensen is sexy ! The direction made things hot and snappy; it mastered the thrill of the heist, and some of the visual comedy (as in the team's daydreams), while leading the emotional parts rightly too.Now to The Perfect Score's not perfect score; and I mean one factor : the script. Well, to sum it all up, while the heist and the comedy parts were OK, the drama part wasn't. The characters weren't built seriously. Take for instance the stoner; why he's living this way ? All what we know about him is that his mother is dead, and that's not enough at all. Moreover, the scene of him with the basketball star's mom; what was that about ? After one tongue-lashing, he quits drugs and refuses cheating !! Which leads us to the ending. Not choosing using the answers which they hardly got isn't the problem, not playing it logically is. I mean, com'on, suddenly we discover that ALL the leads are geniuses ! And the way they realized that "they don't need cheating to get what they want" wasn't any well written. At that part, I felt the writer wanted to persuade us verbally not actually. And finally, what was the story of that so serious, yet half naked, woman in the ETS building ?! According to its premise, this is light comedy. And according to its fault, it is so light ! That's why it's entertaining, but not that memorably effective. However, among the heist movies of 2004, like Ocean's Twelve, Times Lucky, The Big Bounce, and The Ladykillers, it has its high rank, being way better than most of them, let alone that Erika Christensen is sexy !

Desertman84 The Perfect Score is a teen heist film starring Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Bryan Greenberg, Scarlett Johansson, Darius Miles, and Leonardo Nam.It focuses on a group of six high school students whose futures will be jeopardized if they fail the upcoming SAT exam. It was directed by Brian Robbins.The film deals with the themes of one's future, morality, individuality, and feelings.Kyle wants to be an architect, but his scores are too low to get into the school of his choice. Matty is heartbroken when he is rejected from the school to which his girlfriend goes. Good girl Anna is pressured by her parents to excel in academics and remain innocent. Desmond is a basketball player who believes the SAT exam is racist. Rounding out the group is gutsy Francesca and lonely Roy. They conspire together to break into the ETS building and steal the answers to the exam, so they can all get perfect scores.This film falls flat.It is neither funny nor suspenseful.This teen heist flick also fails to explore its potentially socially relevant premise.Too bad that this film was even ever made.The presence of Scarlett Johansson is the only reason why this does not deserve the lowest IMDb rating.

James Hayes-Bohanan, Ph.D. I did well on the SATs, but I do not consider them fair. The first part of this film does a good job describing the problems with the SATs -- and with high-stakes tests in general. I am a college professor who sees standardized testing as very problematic; this film does a great public service by challenging the prevailing wisdom on testing.The film seems to begin as a protest movie, with the students motivated by their righteous indignation to undermine the SAT. Once they get organized, though, they seem to forget this motivation, and this devolves into a fairly mediocre -- if diverting -- teen/adventure flick.I would like to see the first 30 minutes remade as a documentary; I would show it to my students and colleagues. Fairtest.org is a good place to learn more about the corrosive effect of these tests, by the way.

view_and_review Some teens want to guarantee their entry into college, so they come up with a seemingly brilliant scheme to steal the answers to the SAT. Each of them has his or her own reasons for wanting to go to college so badly that they'd risk everything to get their hands on the SAT.The storyline was mildly interesting, but it was definitely for teens and pre-teens. The acting left a lot to be desired. I watched it expecting it to be funny... it was not. Fortunately, I wasn't thoroughly annoyed with the "Breakfast Club" bunch as I am usually bothered by movies starring teens. It was an alright movie for an MTV production.