Kamandi73

Around 2002-2004, bum fighting was filmed on the streets of some cities like Miami, Las Vegas, San Diego, and Los Angeles. The homeless were paid small amounts to fight each other, drink urine, get their hair set on fire, etc.

When I was watching the two so-called wolf guys fighting in this movie, it reminded me of bum-fighting that used to be on the TV news. Neither one of them looked like a werewolf, or any kind of wolfman. They looked like dirty homeless bums.

Supposedly they were infected with some kind of virus that made them have "the face of the wolf" according to some kind of folklore that was given zero backstory. Neither one of them remotely looked like any wolf, dog, labrador, chihuahua, etc.

Julia Garner played the wife of the lead wolfie, Christopher Abbot. She has a totally expressionless face. I fast-forwarded and rewound several times to see her not-react to anything. They could have used a mannequin and had Garner done the voiceovers and it would have been the same.

The incredibly annoying and equally expressionless Matilda Firth was totally useless and unnecessary. She seemed to be around just to nag her Mom and Dad. At one point, Garner locks out the transformed mutant Dad, and the little girl is yelling at her Mom, like she is too dumb to get that her Dad is not human anymore.

Christopher Abbott seems to have a smirk about to bust out in every scene. He seems to be thinking he is in the dumbest crap movie ever made, and wants to laugh.

The other wolf guy plays his father at the beginning of the movie, and all he does is yell at his son (the young verson of Christopher Abbott).

There is nothing much to like or root for in this film. There is a lot of whining and relationship building that is very boring. The characters are not much. The acting is bad.

Dr. Who values in the 1950s. Apparently the BBC cannot treat any period of time with integrity, so here in the 1950s the gay affairs of the rich get the modern day awake treatment.

In spite of the fact that alternative lifestyles were illegal criminal acts in the 1950s, everyone in this episode is out and about and open about adultery too.

Into that mix Brenda finds a job as the maid for the guy whose son is blackmailing him because Daddy is gay. All the nasty stuff between the malignant son and his Dad and boyfriend comes out, right before the son gets murdered.

The surprise smutty twist is that the evil son was betraying his Dad in yet another way. Really a sleaze-fest by the standards of the 1950s.

In the midst of all this Brenda falls in love with one of the murder suspects, and is ready to leave town with him. Right when it looked liked Brenda and her quirky personality and bizzare facial tics would be gone, she changes her mind.

Now why is she living with Father Brown? Why is she on this show?? She certainly is not making it better.

The life and soul of the Father Brown TV series left when Sorcha Cusack left the series. She portrayed Mrs. McCarthy with vigor. It was a very real character that she brought to life.

She was replaced by Claudie Blakley as the new church office manager. Blakley tries hard, but she always sounds like she is reading her lines on a stage. She is really bad compared to Sorcha Cusack. It certainly is not a real human character anymore.

Bunty the arrogant cow was replaced by Brenda Palmer (Rudy May Martinwood). I am not sure what she does. She seems to have some kind of job at the church, but mostly it is to make faces and say sarcastic remarks. If they ever make a live action version of Curious George, Rudy would be perfect for that role.