Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2215 in Movie
• Released on: 2010-06-01
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Running time: 103 minutes

Customer Reviews

Werewolf
I thought the wolfman was a good movie. I like the way they kept the same makeup job from the Lon Chaney days. It looks more original .The storyline was done in a tasteful manner. I felt it was by far from being boring like some have mentioned. The music could have been done better to make it more erry. Other than that it's a good movie.

B-movie horror flick
I can't say I was expecting much from this movie, but Wolfman disappointed. It comes across as a B-monster movie rather than something more. The focus is definitely on a monster killing people. The movie goes to pains to find odd and grotesque situations in which to disembowel a lot of people. However, this gets pretty boring. The scenes are uniformly dark and the acting dull. Simon Merrells is catatonic and Anthony Hopkins comes across as a joke. The only ray of light is Emily Blunt, who manages to look even sexier in 19th century wardrobe.

Not as good as it could have been...
Benicio Del Toro is generally a fantastic actor, but you wouldn't know it from watching this. His character is completely monotone, and you get the sense the actor is bored or sleepy throughout the whole movie. Anthony Hopkins is a tad more lively, but his character is extremely one-dimensional and not especially interesting.

It's a shame, really, because the movie is visually stunning, with excellent production design and art direction by some of the people behind Tim Burton's "Sleepy Hollow". It sets a perfect gloomy, foggy atmosphere.

Somehow, the film never quite manages to convey the tragedy nor the horror of what's happening to its protagonist and his victims. There's some gore, and a few startles, but even those are predictable, and the gore just feels gratuitous instead of frightening or disturbing. Likewise for the CGI effects. When is Hollywood going to learn that less is more when it comes to horror?

Danny Elfman's score was apparently inspired by the score for Coppola's 1992 Dracula. It's a valiant effort and the themes are recognizable, but it's not Elfman's best work. Somehow the music just doesn't unsettle or inspire the sense of dread that it should.