The Wolfman

Poor plot and dialogue. The movie fails to create any kind of suspense and the american accents dont really suit victorian britain. Not recommended at all.

A slice (or should that be slash?) of Victorian gothic done fairly straight (surprisingly and thankfully) though not ducking the 21stC requirement for lots of explicit gore, literally visceral at times. There is plenty of mumbo-jumbo too: largely unintelligible mysticism from the Gypsies and lots of lowering talk of curses and demons from the locals. Many other cliches of the genre are trotted out: howlings to make you cringe and abrupt noises to make you jump. The gothic atmosphere if well achieved by clever sets and impressive CGI. The transformations from man to wolf are excellent technically, but it's a shame that the facial end result leaves the werewolves looking like something out of Cats. The locals (a troupe of stalwart British character actors) have the worst of the script, as they plough and plod through some cliched scenes, but the main players are quite well served in terms of melodrama and action. There's a quite satisfying liebestod at the end, though I won't say who's loving and who's dying, not that the rather predictable outcome warrants any spoiler alert.

Ok this movie is ok but do not expect the original, the werewolf is by far the best we have seen in a while but the transformation scenes are ruined by overdoing the cgi, the original is by far the best especially when you feel a connection with Lawrence talbot because you feel sorry for him and this is what lets the remake down, you don't feel sorry for him and they completely messed up the father character but hey what can you do just expect a story that's completely different to the original

Fails to entice despite excellent cast and the gothic visuals. The paste movie is too quick to identify oneself with the personages. Rather to feel sorry for Lawrence, I am happy it is over at the end.

since the movie is now being shown on film4 just after i rented it,its the same old story just different actors the special effects were good but many scenes were taken from the original black and white movie in fact i thing the whole movie is a re-make or the original black and white movie but with the better special effects