Werewolves

I loved the idea of the movie, but this wasn't that good at all. Lens flares in almost every scene. No interesting characters. Bad CGI when it was used.

There was hardly any explanation of the plot. It's almost like this movie was written in the hopes that someone would buy the rights to make a video game. I mean, you have a great idea for a new werewolf movie, but instead of fleshing out a good story, you have to make a sloppy, rush to streaming mess.

The only saving grace to this movie is that they did use quite a bit of practical effects. If you like shoot em ups and Grillo, you may like this movie. Otherwise, don't hope for a good werewolf movie from this poor submission.

This was a bummer for me. There wasn't too much good to say about it outside the general plot or universe they tried to create. The lines were atrociously bad most of the time, I could not get into the special effects and the cinematography was like a student film. The script was so cheesy it was ridiculous most of the time, talking wasn't even needed. I felt as if it almost would have been better without the script entirely. The special effects were super campy. I enjoy that typically, but this felt very awkward. It played like it was a 'serious' movie, but the effects were super cheese and it was hard to take a werewolf seriously. I wish it would have been one of those were it knew it was cheesy and somewhat make fun as they go, but it wasn't. It was a serious attempt at a serious movie which fell flat. Then the cinematography... It was all strobe lights and dark scenes. I'm sad to report I did not like it. Maybe next time, I'll not see it in a theater and have a group of friends around so we can yell at the screen and make fun of it as we go, Mystery Science Theater 3000 style. It is a perfect candidate for that. Just go into braced for this and you may have a better experience.

It didn't take long before I felt a need to switch it off, but I love werewolf films so I pushed through (fml). Werewolves is 90 minutes of the worse lighting I've ever seen. Almost every frame is plagued by a copious amount of lens flares. I don't know if it was an artistic choice, but it's incredibly distracting and makes this film seem really cheap. The acting is as average as it gets and I just didn't care about any of the characters.

The visual effects were shoddy and the werewolf designs looked like these creatures regularly go for botox. Asylum would do better than this, I swear.

Overall it's a forgotable film that offers the genre nothing new. I would recommend watching lesser known gems like Late Phases, Howl and the Ginger Snaps trilogy instead. This is just poop.

Why did Lou Diamond Phillips agree to a cameo in this film? Why did Katrina Law? As for Frank Grillo, I always wanted him to succeed, but he just agrees to play in any movie you ask him to.

This is the second disappointing werewolf movie today. The moon is not with me. But it isn't that the film is bad, it's that it's simply pointless. The premise is that one random night, a blood moon turned one billion people into werewolves, all over the globe. Nice idea, huh? Only this is just the info dump at the beginning. Fast forward to a normal USA preparing for another night of terror: guns, fences, electric countermeasures that depend on the general power grid to work, big cars and branded cool clothes. Then we spend the entirety of the film with two groups of people: the mandatory woman who can't make any rational decision with a kid next to them, and the mandatory tough man who must make his way to said kid, presumably for more stupid decisions. And that's it. There are no large scale scenes, there is no discussion about the ethical and moral complexities of shooting people that are afflicted by something or waking up to see you murdered people in wolf form, just pointless running around, chased by people dressed in wolves.

The werewolves are funny, there is no real action to talk about, a lot of overacting and heavy breathing, inconsistent behavior and a bunch of subplots that make no sense and don't improve the story one bit. Despite decades of conditioning, my brain still rages at the fact that writing a good script only involves a mind, some time and a word processor. If it's not good, you can rewrite it at almost zero cost. How the hell do such bad scripts even make it on the screen remains a mystery to me. Who pays for them? Werewolf actors should unionize!

And the cast is just underutilized: Phillips is fun, Law is cute and Grillo is tough. So they make the first be overly serious, the second run around with a gun and Frank be a gas bag who always says something that ends up not being true. And when it was his time to shine, oh, that atrocious scene with the beheading...

Bottom line: a complete waste of time. The effects are bad, the story starts nowhere and ends nowhere, the actors are misused. Yuck!

Werewolves is a prime example of a movie where the dialogue and acting completely derail any potential it might have had. From the very first scene, it becomes painfully clear that this film is weighed down by a script that is clunky, forced, and often downright cringeworthy. The dialogue feels like it was written by someone who has never heard a real conversation. Characters spout ridiculous one-liners and try to sound tough or witty, but the result is a mess of unnatural exchanges that only pull you out of the experience.

Unfortunately, the acting is just as bad, if not worse. Frank Grillo, usually a reliable actor, is completely hamstrung by the weak script. His delivery comes off as stiff and disconnected, and it's hard to believe he's actually invested in his character. The rest of the cast is equally unconvincing, with performances that range from awkwardly wooden to painfully over the top. There's no chemistry between any of the characters, and their interactions feel forced and lifeless.

I'm being generous with a 3/10 because the concept could've been fun and worked with better direction.