Lameboat

The Wolfman is a movie that did a lot of things right but was an overall disappointment for my movie-going experience. The sets were gorgeous and  with Anthony Hopkins starring, how could at least some of it not rise to greatness? And indeed some of it did; Mr. Hopkins certainly aided to this even though I felt his performance to be a bit luke warm in places. What pushed this movie’s rising head back down in the B-grade stye was the creature design of the werewolf and the title of the movie. In the words of Dylan Moran they are both “so fabulously f*&king stupid”. They reek of ’80s B-grade horror which is a shame as genres movies like this really need to contribute modern reworkings of the clichés to fly.

The editing of the film was effective at producing the occasional jump and help build the power and prowess behind the beasts. Some of the pacing felt a bit out and the first quarter of the movie didn’t really involve me enough with the characters to care what was happening. When Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) goes back to the asylum I felt that there was more opportunity for emotive content and character expansion. Still this section had a great scene towards its end which had me up and cheering for more blood.

Awesome!

Lame!