The Wolfman Reviews
Moving Pictures Magazine
A lack of focus plagues the entire film. The director, writers and actor himself have conspired to render the title character blank, lifeless.
ReviewExpress.com
Hopkins is clearly Hopkins here, and the extension of his role in the story kept me asking why.
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| Original Score: 2/5
CNNRadio
The action is fine. The casting is a bit of a disappointment. Paul Chambers, CNN.
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| Original Score: C
Reel Film Reviews
...suffers from an egregiously deliberate pace that slowly but surely renders its overtly positive attributes moot...
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| Original Score: 2/4
One Guy's Opinion
A torpid retelling of the classic lycanthropy story, both bloated and constricted, mostly glum but punctuated with nasty, intrusive humor, and more interested in decor and makep than genuine style.
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| Original Score: D-
Triple J
You couldve recast the whole film with a row of totem poles and I'm not 100% sure anyone would've noticed the difference.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Antagony & Ecstasy
The clumsy and ineffectual story doesn't do anything but stand in place, whirring.
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| Original Score: 3/10
eFilmCritic.com
An over-edited mess that tries to sell energy without having any -- it's listless and bland.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Blunt Review
What fun. Lighten up and enjoy. The Universal monster film is back!
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| Original Score: 3/4
Cinema em Cena
Um protagonista sem qualquer indício de personalidade, uma atuação sem qualquer envolvimento de Hopkins e um roteiro sem qualquer sinal de inteligência.
| Original Score: 2/5
Reno News and Review
Love Anthony Hopkins, and Benicio is the right choice for the part, but the director blows it anyway.
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| Original Score: 2.25/5
Q Network Film Desk
works hard to honor the B-movie legacy on whose shoulders it stands while also elaborating and expanding the mythology
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| Original Score: 3/4
Screenwize
Despite the hairy production process, Universal Pictures has managed to rescue a half decent chiller in this remake of the 1941 classic B-grade Wolfman that starred Lon Chaney as the man turned beast.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Journeyman director Joe Johnston has crafted a generally effective if inconsequential monster movie, highlighted by Rick Baker's beautifully rendered makeup effects and designs.
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| Original Score: 3/4
FEARnet
Not scary, hardly compelling, and ultimately pretty silly. Lovely to look at, though.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
NewsBlaze
Bite worse than bark bulletproof beasts without benefit of steroids, species profiling, paw to paw beatdown staged like a World Wrestling Federation bout with fur, and the manimal who came to dinner.
PopMatters
The Wolfman reframes the werewolf legend -- so weighty with communal perversity and collective guilt -- so that it's all about a very bad dad.
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
The new Benicio Del Toro movie, "Hirsute and Hatin' It" (okay, "The Wolfman"), is so ripe with the stink of fouled fromage, it should have taken place in France instead of Victorian England.
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| Original Score: D+
tonymacklin.net
To mix monsters -- The Wolfman is one of those films that was put together like Frankenstein. With all the bloody musical chairs, The Wolfman should collapse. But the Wolfman has enough camp and verve to grab you by the throat. And maybe the funny bone.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
SFX Magazine
An adequately respectful but fairly forgettable film, which earns brownie points for the werewolf mayhem, good intentions and simply for not being Van Helsing.
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| Original Score: 3/5
