Viewers at IMDb have not been kind to this film with a 5.8 rating (as I write this). I didn't think it was all that bad, with an intriguing story line and Rick Baker's special effects to bring the wolf men of the story to life. The segue of Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) spending some time in an asylum for a year after witnessing his father (Anthony Hopkins) slitting his mother's throat made for some creepy background to their conflicted relationship. The darkness of the sets add to the sense of foreboding once we know what will happen to Lawrence after he's bitten by his Dad, the half man/half wolf creature who's destined to kill the ones he loves. The one thing I'd criticize would be some of those sequences that show the wolf men on all fours during an attack; those scenes looked a little clunky to me. Something the picture didn't make any hay out of was the eventual fate of Scotland Yard detective Francis Aberline (Hugo Weaving). Seems to me he was a candidate to become a wolf man in waiting once he got slashed during his brief encounter. The look on his face said the worst was yet to come if anyone had an idea about a sequel.
Review of The Wolfman
