The Wolfman

The Wolfman

Running Time: 103 minutes

Summary: Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out to find his brother... and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother's fiancée, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline has come to investigate.

Review: Possibly the only thing worse than the wolfman make-up in this movie is Benicio Del Toro's American accent. After some discussions, Jon and I decided that the reason that Benicio Del Toro has an American accent in this England based story, is that he was incapable of doing an English accent. There is one small reference to the fact that his father sent him to live with American cousins after the death of his mother, but other than that you are forced to sit through his prepubescent squeeky American accent for no reason other than, why not?

The wolfman makeup is more remniscent of Teen Wolf than anything that your imagination could conjure. Maybe it's because I imagined something more looking more like Underworld than a mid 80s hit. Watching the werewolves run around fully clothed made it even more hilarious. I mean, seriously?

The only other thing that I can comment on is that for a movie that contains so many talented actors, Anthony Hopkins, Benicio Del Toro, Hugo Weaving, Emily Blunt. The movie fell massively short. At the end of the movie, as a werewolf howls into the lonely night and the image slowly fades to blackness, Jon and I looked at each other and said, "That's it?"

Rating: 4 nests out of 10