The film tells the story of six high school students entering a different life experience. Their future is at risk if they fail the next SAT. Shortly, these students are divided into the SAT test center to steal the answers. In the end, they seem to be learning a more important lesson than the lessons they teach every day.
The Perfect Score is amenable, enjoyable and as quickly forgotten as all those tricks you learned in your SAT prep class.
Seattle Times
January 30, 2004
Kids facing the SAT in real life may appreciate this movie, if only because it'll make them feel so much smarter than these characters. For the rest of us, it flunks.
The work of a filmmaker and team of writers so conscious of their own formulaic crutch that they demand a production that feels like more than the sum of its parts.
Washington Post
January 30, 2004
A bizarre mismatch of The Breakfast Club and Mission: Impossible.
Toronto Star
January 30, 2004
Is there not something just plain wrong with a movie about cheating on exams that's less fun than taking one?
Next time, director Robbins and his screenwriters should spend a few hours inside a real high school rather than re-hashing stock stereotypes from bad '80s movies.
