Movie review...The Wolfman

On Saturday night I went and saw The Wolfman (15) at Vue Cinema, Festival Place, Basingstoke.


The movie is a remake of the Universal classic horror The Wolf Man (PG) that was released in 1941.


In this movie, Benicio Del Toro plays Lawrence Talbot, is a man who returns to his ancestral home after finding out that his brother had vanished.  He is found dead, and it looks like he had been savaged by some beast.
Lawrence goes out to find the monster that killed his brother, and gets bitten by the beast that killed his brother...which makes him become the wolfman.


There's not really much that can be given away, but I'm not going to say too much as there is an interesting twist at the end of this movie which I don't remember in the original (I will have to watch it again later!) which was quite clever and explains more about the brother's death.


Although I enjoyed this movie, I feel there could have been a lot more to this.  Sure there was gore, a little humour and even a little bit of romance...but it feels a little bit like they had over-thought some parts of it, and for some reason some parts felt like they had been taken from American Werewolf in London!  It's a pity too as they had pulled in some great names like Anthony Hopkins, Art Malik, and Hugo Weaving.


If you want to watch a basic horror" and you have not seen the classic 1941 movie, The Wolfman is worth a watch, but in my humble opinion the superb original and Lon Chaney reign supreme....I give this movie 5/10.


The Wolfman is rated 15 and is in cinemas now.