Vintage

Editor's Note: This is what I like to call a shot gun blast movie review.  It would be the equivalent of a stub article on Wikipedia.  The idea is why wait forever to get this stuff out of my head... When, it can at least be crawled by the Gods sooner rather than later.  Anyway..

The Wolfman was a much better movie than I expected it to be.  Based on the originally lackluster reception it garnered, my expectations were sufficiently lowered.  However, The Wolfman was pretty damn good - solid in acting, cinematic elements, what have you.  The gore was great.  Many heads and body parts get cleaved, mauled, ripped apart, tossed, and more.

Benicio del Toro was well cast as the Wolfman.  He has that weird look about him that makes him a good choice for a doppelganger.  Anthony Hopkins was brilliant as he typically is in these sorts of films (i.e., Bram Stoker's Dracula).  I won't go into all the detail about the plot, but generally you can figure it out from the title.  Dude is a wolf.

Perhaps I enjoyed it more because it hearkens back to a day when creatures of the night were not thinly veiled metaphors for social outcasts and angst-ridden teens.  There is no freaking Team Jacob.  Just the Wolfman.  In the Wolfman, you get your damn head bitten off.  Yes, he had a loved interest.  He told her to beat it to London, because he knew that when the Moon was high in the sky, she was next.  Solid flick.  Unexpected. King.