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The Wolfman (2010)
Country: UK / USA
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Direction: Joe Johnston
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, Art Malik

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.


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Movie Review:

The setting is Blackmoor, England in the late 1800’s and Lawrence Talbot (played Benitio Del Toro) has returned home, a home he’s spent years in America trying to forget, to find the whereabouts of his missing brother, Ben. What Lawrence doesn’t expect to find is that a) Ben turns up dead and his grave wounds don’t really jive with the theory that ‘the gypsies got him’ and b) Ben’s fiancée (Emily Blunt) is quite the hottie. At her behest Lawrence remains at his father’s estate to find out what really happened to Ben and his intestines.From the get go, it’s painfully obvious that Lawrence and his father, Sir John Talbot (Anthony Hopkins) have a love/hate relationship with a little more hate than love. And as the story unfolds it becomes evident this is a family with some pretty dark secrets – mom’s suicide, insane asylums. This would seemingly make for an intriguing two hours, but unfortunately the dark mood and lifeless acting make us lower our expectations, and long simply for the full moon and some wolfy action.

As luck would have it, Lawrence in his attempt to ‘catch’ the Wolfman is bitten and starts to behave a bit peculiarly. Gwen obviously takes his sudden animal-like sniffing and ravenous gazes at her neck as some sort of turn on because she proceeds to fall blindly in love with him. Dr. Laura would have a field day with this and with Gwen’s eventual belief that she can ‘change’ Lawrence. After all, he only turns into a murderous beast once a month. Everyone has their off days, and the rest of the time he’s quite amiable…

I had high expectations for The Wolfman 2010. Aside from the intrigue of werewolves in general and today’s sophisticated computer graphics, the casting is top notch. Unfortunately even Anthony Hopkins can’t save this film (he is no Claude Rains, of the 1941 version) and Benitio Del Toro’s acting is just plain flat.

Don’t get me wrong – there are some very well played scenes with the Wolfman terrorizing a gypsy camp, a medical assembly and the city of Blackmoor in general. In these scenes, he’s fast, he’s ferocious, he’s very hungry. But when the camera fixates on the Wolfman for any length of time he’s reduced to… well a large Muppet. Watching him tussle with another Wolfman is like watching two Chewbacca’s go at it on the Death Star.

Does Blackmoor succumb to the beast? Does Gwen get her wolf of a man? And why the heck does Sir John hate his own family? Unfortunately most of these questions go unanswered in The Wolfman 2010, but in the end, we don’t really care.

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