So I kind of got dragged to this one basically because the trailer told me this movie was going to kind of suck. And for once the trailer was right. It did kind of suck. I'm not going to say I hated it or that it totally sucked, because there were some really creepy scenes (mostly involving a Hannibal Lecter-esque performance by Anthony Hopkins) and I actually jumped a couple of times. And really, when you are going to a scary movie and that happens, you really can't say the movie totally sucked.
The Wolfman stars Benicio Del Toro as Lawrence Talbot, an actor who was born into English nobility but spent most of his life away from home in America. When Talbot's brother goes missing, he is summoned back home by his brother's fiance' Gwen (Emily Blunt) to help find him. Talbot soon discovers that his brother was killed by a vicious creature. In the process of the search for this creature (SPOILER: (not) its a werewolf), Talbot is bitten and soon becomes a werewolf himself. His search leads him to a evil discovery involving his father (Anthony Hopkins).
This movie was very atmospheric and if it didn't have a bunch of CGI werewolves running around it would have been quite creepy, but alas its a movie about werewolves and thus you have to make them CGI nowadays. Emily Blunt was quite mesmerizing as the damsel in distress/eye candy cum heroine in this one. And Anthony Hopkins channeled his inner psycho once again to totally creep me out in just about every scene he's in. I've never really gotten on the whole Benicio Del Toro bandwagon, and so I didn't really think he was all that good in this. He wasn't bad mind you, but nothing to write home about either.
There were a couple of times when a werewolf would jump out of no where and I would jump and a couple of times when a werewolf would rip an arm or a head off and I would cringe, but these moments were not enough to carry this movie as much of a scary one. I know it was shooting more for a dramatic thriller centered around a supernatural subject, but it just fell a bit flat. I didn't really connect with any of the characters and thus didn't really feel anything in some of the more poignant points in the film. Also, I felt that the CGI was pretty weak and that really took a lot away from this very moody, creepy flick.
I honestly can't tell you to even rent this one when it comes out, maybe if its a dark, and stormy night and its on HBO and you've seen everything else on TV. Then, maybe you should watch it, but otherwise I think you are going to find yourself unsatisfied.
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