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.
Actors fulminate and masticate, spit, scowl and sob; what a gas it is to watch them overact with joy and conviction.
– Amy Biancolli,
Houston Chronicle,
12 Feb 2010
rotten:
Benicio Del Toro stars in this lushly art-designed 19th-century period film, but his beefcake-gone-bad magnetism is not enough to justify sitting through a movie that's full of sound, fury and unintentional camp -- and is still bafflingly inert.
– Ernest Hardy,
L.A. Weekly,
12 Feb 2010
fresh:
With its mist-shrouded sets, gruesome slaughter and copious CGI, this is a surprisingly respectful updating of the 1941 Universal original.
– Nigel Floyd,
Time Out,
16 Feb 2010
rotten:
When the beast finally bursts forth, the character becomes, for the most part, a digitally augmented blur -- there's no room for a performance underneath all the 0s and 1s.