Synopsis
Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonlight transformation, leaves him with a savage hunger for flesh.
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Cast
- Benicio del ToroLawrence Talbot
- Anthony HopkinsSir John Talbot
- Emily BluntGwen Conliffe
- Hugo WeavingInspector Francis Abberline
- Geraldine ChaplinMaleva
- Art MalikSingh
- Antony SherDr. Hoenneger
- David SchofieldConstable Nye
- Cristina ContesSolana Talbot
- David SterneKirk
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Tribune
Doggedly, or rather wolfishly, the film doesn't go in for camp or mirth, at least until its misjudged and semi-endless wolf-on-wolf climax. - 63
Observer
But the direction by Joe Johnston (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids) sacrifices originality for computer graphics and stop-motion camera tricks, and the script, by Andrew Kevin Walker and David Self, bulges with real howlers: “I didn’t know you hunted monsters.” “Sometimes monsters hunt you!” - 63
Orlando Sentinel
The matter-of-fact way everybody involved faces this supernatural horror drains most of the chills right out of it. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
The Wolfman avoids what must have been the temptation to update its famous story. It plants itself securely in period, with a great-looking production set in 1891. - 60
Boxoffice Magazine
Benicio Del Toro looks even more like Lon Chaney Sr. than Chaney Jr. did, and he’s a far better actor than the previous Wolf Man. - 50
Arizona Republic
The movie plays like a missed opportunity, with its by-the-numbers scares and a story that feels disjointed, hurried in some places, slow in others. - 50
Chicago Reader
This is fairly satisfying, particularly a ghoulish episode in a Victorian insane asylum. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Not bad enough to be considered a camp, guilty pleasure, it's more of a dull, defanged dirge with the reliably intriguing Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins turning in oddly disaffected performances.
