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% |
