moviefixx » Reviews http://www.moviefixx.com movie reviews, movie trailers, movie trivia and notes on the movie business Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:12:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Wolfman – Reviews http://www.moviefixx.com/the-wolfman-reviews/ http://www.moviefixx.com/the-wolfman-reviews/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:06:39 +0000 Craig Scott http://www.moviefixx.com/?p=693

Title: The Wolfman
Release Date: February 12, 2010
Genre: Action, Horror
Studio: Universal Pictures
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, Art Malik
Director: Joe Johnston
Screenwriters: Andrew Kevin Walker, David Self
Official Site: http://TheWolfmanmovie.com

Synopsis: In this remake of the Universal B-movie classic, nobleman Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) returns to his family estate, in the Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, to help search for his missing brother. He soon learns that a creature of some sort has been stalking the local villagers at night.  Rumors of an ancient curse resurface.  According to legend, a person afflicted by the curse is transformed by the light of a full moon into a blood-lusting beast.  Talbot ventures into the woods to track the beast, and in so doing finds something even more terrifying within himself.

Critic Publication Quote Score
Roger Ebert The Chicago Sun-Times “‘The Wolfman’ makes a satisfactory date movie for Valentine’s Day, which is more than can be said for ‘Valentine’s Day.’ Truer love hath no woman than the woman who loves a wolf man. And vice versa, ideally.” Read the full review here. 80%
Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly “Del Toro, with his melancholy-brute features, endows this raging beast with some of the ‘Why me?’ poignance you may remember from Lon Chaney Jr.’s performance in the original….And that lends ‘The Wolfman,’ hokey and uneven though it is, the kind of authentic emotional hook that too many horror movies today don’t have.” Read the full review here. 80%
Amy Biancolli San Francisco Chronicle “The stylish gloom and warped psychological drama give the tale its juice. …the movie’s best special effect hands down is Anthony Hopkins as Talbot the Elder, who flounces around in a tiger stole and utters his lines with such a delicious madman twinkle you might want to snack on him yourself…” Read the full review here. 60%
Dana Stevens Slate “…’The Wolfman’ packs a lot of gore for very little scare….but despite the thickly laid-on atmospherics, no sense of menace or mystery attends the central character. He’s either a moping nobleman or a CGI-enhanced predator, and the transition between the two states, while impressively rendered, is as psychologically uninteresting as the flipping of a toggle switch.” Read the full review here. 60%
A. O. Scott The New York Times “…it is hard to shake the suspicion that this ‘Wolfman’ is haunted, above all, by those teenage vampires, who generate such frenzy (and such profit) from their sexless passions….But in this shaggy-dog version the wolfman’s story is both gratuitously bloody and, finally, bloodless.” Read the full review here. 40%
Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times “When the beast is finally revealed, he’s fearsome. Too bad the story’s not.” Read the full review here. 60%
Moviefixx Average: 63.33%



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Title: Edge of Darkness
Release Date: January 29, 2010
Genre: Political/Crime Thriller
Studio: Warner Bros.
Cast: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Bojana Novakovic, Shawn Roberts
Director: Martin Campbell
Producers: Graham King, Tim Headington, Michael Wearing
Website: http://edge-of-darkness.warnerbros.com/

Synopsis: “Edge of Darkness” is an emotionally charged thriller set at the intersection of politics and big business. Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson) is a veteran homicide detective for the Boston Police Department and a single father. When his only child, twenty-four year-old Emma (Bojana Novakovic), is murdered on the steps of his home, everyone assumes that he was the target. But he soon suspects otherwise, and embarks on a mission to find out about his daughter’s secret life and her killing. His investigation leads him into a dangerous, looking glass world of corporate cover-ups, government collusion and murder – and to shadowy government operative Darius Jedburgh (Ray Winstone), who has been sent in to clean up the evidence. Craven’s solitary search for answers about his daughter’s death transforms into an odyssey of emotional discovery and redemption.  (Source: Warner Bros.)


Critic Publication Quote Score
Roger Ebert The Chicago Sun-Times “Winstone’s interaction with Gibson provides the movie with much of its interest. For the rest, it’s a skillful exercise in CGI and standard-order thriller supplies. Gibson is a credible, attractive hero, as he has always been, so if you want fast-food action, here’s your movie.”  Read the full review here. 50%
Peter Travers Rolling Stone “The plot complications involving nuclear waste and political maneuvering have been trivialized beyond all meaning. But watching Gibson in a revenge fantasy feeds all my needs for a bloodlusting B-movie feast.”  Read the full review here. 67.5%
Owen Glieberman Entertainment Weekly “The more that Edge of Darkness reveals about the Corruption of America, the less it seems like anything but a conspiracy-of-the-week excuse to get Mel Gibson hot under the collar. His slow-burn fury keeps the movie going, but not enough to invest us in any justice beyond payback.”  Read the full review here. 80%
Keith Phipps The Onion “Edge Of Darkness gathers all the elements of a smart, politically resonant thriller, but leaves them only half-assembled. … [It] quickly devolves into another showcase for Gibson’s snorting-bull act, a routine he could happily have shelved during his time off.”  Read the full review here. 60%
A. O. Scott The New York Times “Edge of Darkness is reasonably well executed, but its competence reeks of fatigue. Another dead kid. Another angry dad. Another day at the office.”  Read the full review here. 60%
Critics’ Average: 63.5%
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