The Wolfman

The university I started at was holding a few orientation specials at various bars and places around the city. Not being the bar type, I decided to tag along to a student's screening of The Wolfman, starring Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins amongst others. The original 1941 film is one of my favourite classic horror films, but I was excited about the prospect of a remake since I first about it last year. Mistake? Yes.

The film just didn't work. At all. Del Toro was awkward as the main lead, with Anthony Hopkins and Hugo Weaving just plain bad and corny in their portrayals. I mean every time Weaving walks into a shot there is a dramatic close up, pause and then brooding look before he orders someone around. $150 million for this crap? Puh-lease! Although the werewolves do look marginally scary, the transformation into them is bad and the way the director relies on cheap scares rather than actually putting the time into making a suspenseful chase scene or the like is just woeful. I don't scare easily so the film just looked absolutely pitiful.

The movie barely drags itself along to the final scenes with a showdown between two werewolves - lame - and an anticlimactic ending - rubbish! What a serious waste of some good plot potential. What happened to the days of suspense and whodunits and chase scenes with less gore and more more? Now there's only bad movies with severed clitorises (Seriously, does AntiChrist have that? Man I wanna see that movie!). Avoid the film and tell your friends to as well. At least it only cost $5 to get in.