The Wolfman - Review

A story about a man named Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) that saw his mother die when he was a child, who then moved away, became an actor and finally comes back home to Blackmoor when his brother is found dead in a ditch. Sounds like a normal weekend to me.

The story progresses rather slowly at first, with the only highlight for the first 30 minutes being Lawrence’s brother getting slashed open like a fish. The story then breaks out into a sprint with Lawrence being bitten, healing from the attack and changing into a hairy beast, while surprisingly enough looking much like Michael J. Fox in Teen Wolf the entire time.

He then moves on to killing random people by swatting their heads off, and finally (yup, you guessed it) fighting the same Werewolf that bit him. The end fight was pretty cool, that alone was worth the price of admission.

Overall, I was highly underwhelmed. I expected some badass Wolf looking creature that did badass things like kill Vampires and get it on with hot Wolf chicks or something. I don’t know, maybe I have high (or low depending on how you look at it) expectations. I just wanted more of a Wolf, and less of the man dressed up in a wolf costume running like a retard on crack.

They did get one thing right though, they put Anthony Hopkins in this movie. I would so have his short, hairy chested babies.