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As others have said on here, there are many of us who enjoy "weird movies" but they still need to make some sort of sense - this script is a mess - bits & pieces of mad scientist movies from the 1950's, body modification, broken families, suffering teenager, etc. Throw them all in a blender - add a strong lead performance from Hunter Schafer and it still doesn't work. I am a big fan of Dan Stevens - he has terrific range as an actor - in fact, if you want to watch a truly creepy, dark film with a great Dan Stevens performance, watch FRESH - but this truly doesn't make sense - he has this resort as a nature preserve so he can - what? Create bird women hybrids that can screech and - what?? Maybe I need to be on the same drugs and/or bird seed the filmmaker was on. It just gets more and more confusing as it goes along and when Dan Stevens tried to explain his plan, people in the theatre around me were laughing or yawning. No one cared. It is cuckoo. And not even for Cocoa Puffs! Yes, if he was trying to turn them into the Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs Bird, THEN you got something!!!

I am fan of crime writer James Lee Burke AND Alec Baldwin, so it is so unfortunate that none of this works as a film. Very talented people involved, pretty good cast (even though when you think hot sexy New Orleans stripper, you dont think Mary Stuart Masterson) the film just meanders along, scene by scene but there's no life to it. The action is flat, the dialogue seems forced, all the bars are "movie" bars, it all feels artificial. I haven't seen the Tommy Lee Jones film where he also plays Robicheaux but I want to. This was a strange period for Baldwin, they were desperately trying to make him a leading man but he truly blossomed when he got a little heavy and embraced being a terrific character actor, which he always was, despite the chiseled looks and blue eyes. If you want to see a young Alec Baldwin in a. Good crime flick, just watch MIAMI BLUES.

I had high hopes for this after enjoying the filmmaker's reboot of THE INVISIBLE MAN with Elisabeth Moss. But everything that was clever and exhilarating in that film, is tepid and cliched in WOLF MAN. This is the first thing I ever saw Christopher Abbott in where he was just okay - he is a terrific actor - so good in films like BLACK BEAR, JAMES WHITE, MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE, POOR THINGS, etc. And the talented Julia Garner seems miscast in her role. The opening is interesting but once Abbott brings his family back to his childhood home in the valley, it just is one cliche after another. Even the design of the Wolf Man underwhelms. Nope, sorry, much better off watching the original Lon Chaney Jr THE WOLF MAN or the 1980's THE HOWLING or AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON if you want your lupine fix.