Customer Reviews:
Excellent Film.......2008-02-05
Not really as supernatural as UNDERWORLD.More believable even though i guess not if you see what i mean. I liked the way humans became wolfs. Quite an emotional film of a woman trapped in the paradox of being of a WOLF and needing to hunt to survive and basically not wanting to, and be more human. Some good wolf chases.Its sorts of THE LOST BOYS meets UNDERWORLD. A compelling enough storyline i thought,with good acting throughout.
O....k But Wouldn't Reccomend It .......2007-10-30
This isn't the best film in the world but it does have some aspects that make it a very interesting movie. The transition from human to loup garoe is not the normal way you would expect it and it is not the convential werewolf story with the werewolves not turning into wolfves with the full moon but when they want to. This is also mixed up with a tragic love story between the sworn enimies the loup garous and humans. The ways that make it bad is that it is a very dark film and sometimes the acting seems a little far feched even for a movie like this and there are very little horror aspects to it so if you are a fan of horror it is not really the film for you.
It was nowhere near as close to the book, but I still enjoyed it........2007-10-28
The film was very loosely based on the book (which I love) and although there were many deviations from the book (which I usually hate). I though that the film was okay.
The special effects are not particularly impressive and the film itself does not particularly stand out from the crowd, but the film was watchable enough. I think my favourite scene has to be when they're running though the forest and they change into wolves.
Although I thought the book was better, I still think the film works despite the fact that they changed the ending completely.
Hilarious...but unintetionally........2007-10-10
This is one of the worst films that I have ever sat through. None of the 'horror' elements convince and there is a hilarious cheesy romantic seqment dropped so unexpectedly into the middle of the film that it made me roar with laughter. The film switches between moods so abruptly that my girlfriend actually asked me if I had changed the channel a couple of times. All in all, one to avoid.
Great.......2007-08-29
Personally, I loved the film and thought it was really good. I loved the characters and the actors and the wolves were adorable.
I have never read the book before so, I guess my opinion could change once I've gotten round to reading it. But, until that time, Blood and Chocolate, in my opinion was a very good film.
Customer Reviews:
Blood & Chocolate [2007].......2007-10-02
OK, unlike most reviewers out there, I am not going to give this film the one-star verdict. It is true, the film does not proceed at a lupine pace; rather, it moves with the dexterity of an injured wolf. Far too much attention in the script-writing has been focused on the use of cliched dialogue and smulchy love scenes [as noted by Jenny J.J.I]. The acting is bland at best, especially the lead actress, Agnes Bruckner, and co-star, Bryan Dick. Hugh Dancy ['Poe', 'Bronte', 'Black Hawk Down'] saves this film with a good solid performance as the debonair waif-like comic artist who is surprisingly self-sufficient when it comes to battling these creatures.
I was nevertheless impressed by the darker aspects of the film [when they did appear], especially the opening sequence where the hunters, flashlights mounted on their rifles, tracked down and killed Vivian's family one snowy night. In fact, the directing at the beginning of the film is sharp - the well-written voiceover of a young Vivian and the complementary camera work showing her stretched out in the snow, arms and legs forming a pattern on the earth like that of an angel. Director, Katja von Garnier, cuts effectively from the hunt scene into Bucharest as it is today and an older Vivian using her inherited powers to work out through the city and its surrounding parkland. There are some further scenes shot in the woods after dark, which also lend this film a Gothic aspect: the scenes where Alpha Male, Gabriel, commands his pack to hunt certain humans who have crossed this outcast race at some point. Here the changes from human into wolf are not ingenuous compared to a lot of special effects, but they seem to work well in this film - the pack simultaneously change while leaping into the night, like glittering moondust. And I like the fact that they become actual wolves as opposed to great lumbering beasts.
The idea behind the story is clearly that of 'shape-shifting' as opposed to the ideology of becoming a werewolf after being bitten; that these people were born with the disease and not infected with it. Is this 'supposed' to be a werewolf movie per se? It is certainly not billed as such. The metamorphosis that involves werewolves is involuntary, occuring when the moon is full; shape-shifters transform at will. Perhaps a mythic-romantic film at heart? For the juxtaposition of myth and romance works - in general - very well. It is also evident that some careful research has been done here, most notably into legend and folklore.
Flawed perhaps by too many romantically-cliched scenes, the film is crying out for more of the Gothic, like the opening which promised so much. Overall, though, not that disappointing.
Blood and Chocolate is a bad combination.......2007-08-28
No, I haven't read the book to this so this review is solely on this movie. Now for some reason I was expecting this movie to be darker, edgier, perhaps even a horror movie, who am I fooling I knew I wasn't going to get one. The PG-13 rating didn't phase me as so many horror movies are coming out now with PG-13 rating. But this one borders on PG on it good-heartedness and gentleness. It's not particularly entertaining since there's not much drama in the movie, not much to look forward to.
The lazy script co-written by Ehren Kruger and Christopher Landon follows Vivian (the oddly bland Agnes Bruckner) a chocolatier (hence, I suppose, the title) living in Romania who happens to be one of a subculture of werewolves who, from what we can tell, hang out in abandoned buildings jumping from rafters. Vivian herself enjoys jogging, throwing in the occasional leap off the wall just to show us that there's something special about her. In fact, when she first appears on screen, there's an audible sigh on the soundtrack (that might have been the sound of my interest being sucked out of the room, I'm not sure). Vivian meets-cute with the improbably-named Aiden Galvin (Hugh Dancy), a graphic-novelist doing research on, wouldn't you know it, the lore of the `Rougarou' (a fancy name for werewolves). No sooner do Vivian and Aiden start hanging about downtown Bucharest than the head baddie - named, natch, Gabriel (Olivier Martinez) - shows up to claim Vivian as his own.
If you're not bored yet, you will be. Not only does director Katja von Garnier assemble a cast almost entirely lacking in charisma but the script is full of odd-sayings like "May you recognize the age of hope when you see it," "What we're not is what we're taught to fear," and my personal favorite "If you cared about me, you'd have left me before we ever met." I spent more time thinking about that last one than the whole rest of the movie. Mr. Kruger is usually good for a few laughs, but he's slumming it here with expository nonsense like "It's...silver!" and "Creeks...lead to rivers!" The love story didn't convince me all that much. On the positive side, I like the fact that this was filmed in Bucharest, it sure looks like an interesting city so there are some great sights here. My main concern here is that the wolves may have been harmed during filming. At the end of the movie there is no disclaimer that no animal was harmed, instead there's something to the effect that efforts were made avoid injury, which isn't quite the same. The mythology behind the story is good too. I like the special effects and the transformations to loup garou change, but even that wasn't anything that eye-catching.
"Blood and Chocolate" is too slow for its own good, the characters too bland and the plot too convoluted to reach the heights to which it aspires (and with a pedigree like "from the creators of `Underworld'", it doesn't aspire too much). In the end, "Blood" only succeeds in mimicking the beasts it holds so dear: it bites.
Customer Reviews:
Blood & Chocolate [2007].......2007-10-02
OK, unlike most reviewers out there, I am not going to give this film the one-star verdict. It is true, the film does not proceed at a lupine pace; rather, it moves with the dexterity of an injured wolf. Far too much attention in the script-writing has been focused on the use of cliched dialogue and smulchy love scenes [as noted by Jenny J.J.I]. The acting is bland at best, especially the lead actress, Agnes Bruckner, and co-star, Bryan Dick. Hugh Dancy ['Poe', 'Bronte', 'Black Hawk Down'] saves this film with a good solid performance as the debonair waif-like comic artist who is surprisingly self-sufficient when it comes to battling these creatures.
I was nevertheless impressed by the darker aspects of the film [when they did appear], especially the opening sequence where the hunters, flashlights mounted on their rifles, tracked down and killed Vivian's family one snowy night. In fact, the directing at the beginning of the film is sharp - the well-written voiceover of a young Vivian and the complementary camera work showing her stretched out in the snow, arms and legs forming a pattern on the earth like that of an angel. Director, Katja von Garnier, cuts effectively from the hunt scene into Bucharest as it is today and an older Vivian using her inherited powers to work out through the city and its surrounding parkland. There are some further scenes shot in the woods after dark, which also lend this film a Gothic aspect: the scenes where Alpha Male, Gabriel, commands his pack to hunt certain humans who have crossed this outcast race at some point. Here the changes from human into wolf are not ingenuous compared to a lot of special effects, but they seem to work well in this film - the pack simultaneously change while leaping into the night, like glittering moondust. And I like the fact that they become actual wolves as opposed to great lumbering beasts.
The idea behind the story is clearly that of 'shape-shifting' as opposed to the ideology of becoming a werewolf after being bitten; that these people were born with the disease and not infected with it. Is this 'supposed' to be a werewolf movie per se? It is certainly not billed as such. The metamorphosis that involves werewolves is involuntary, occuring when the moon is full; shape-shifters transform at will. Perhaps a mythic-romantic film at heart? For the juxtaposition of myth and romance works - in general - very well. It is also evident that some careful research has been done here, most notably into legend and folklore.
Flawed perhaps by too many romantically-cliched scenes, the film is crying out for more of the Gothic, like the opening which promised so much. Overall, though, not that disappointing.
Blood and Chocolate is a bad combination.......2007-08-28
No, I haven't read the book to this so this review is solely on this movie. Now for some reason I was expecting this movie to be darker, edgier, perhaps even a horror movie, who am I fooling I knew I wasn't going to get one. The PG-13 rating didn't phase me as so many horror movies are coming out now with PG-13 rating. But this one borders on PG on it good-heartedness and gentleness. It's not particularly entertaining since there's not much drama in the movie, not much to look forward to.
The lazy script co-written by Ehren Kruger and Christopher Landon follows Vivian (the oddly bland Agnes Bruckner) a chocolatier (hence, I suppose, the title) living in Romania who happens to be one of a subculture of werewolves who, from what we can tell, hang out in abandoned buildings jumping from rafters. Vivian herself enjoys jogging, throwing in the occasional leap off the wall just to show us that there's something special about her. In fact, when she first appears on screen, there's an audible sigh on the soundtrack (that might have been the sound of my interest being sucked out of the room, I'm not sure). Vivian meets-cute with the improbably-named Aiden Galvin (Hugh Dancy), a graphic-novelist doing research on, wouldn't you know it, the lore of the `Rougarou' (a fancy name for werewolves). No sooner do Vivian and Aiden start hanging about downtown Bucharest than the head baddie - named, natch, Gabriel (Olivier Martinez) - shows up to claim Vivian as his own.
If you're not bored yet, you will be. Not only does director Katja von Garnier assemble a cast almost entirely lacking in charisma but the script is full of odd-sayings like "May you recognize the age of hope when you see it," "What we're not is what we're taught to fear," and my personal favorite "If you cared about me, you'd have left me before we ever met." I spent more time thinking about that last one than the whole rest of the movie. Mr. Kruger is usually good for a few laughs, but he's slumming it here with expository nonsense like "It's...silver!" and "Creeks...lead to rivers!" The love story didn't convince me all that much. On the positive side, I like the fact that this was filmed in Bucharest, it sure looks like an interesting city so there are some great sights here. My main concern here is that the wolves may have been harmed during filming. At the end of the movie there is no disclaimer that no animal was harmed, instead there's something to the effect that efforts were made avoid injury, which isn't quite the same. The mythology behind the story is good too. I like the special effects and the transformations to loup garou change, but even that wasn't anything that eye-catching.
"Blood and Chocolate" is too slow for its own good, the characters too bland and the plot too convoluted to reach the heights to which it aspires (and with a pedigree like "from the creators of `Underworld'", it doesn't aspire too much). In the end, "Blood" only succeeds in mimicking the beasts it holds so dear: it bites.
Customer Reviews:
Blood & Chocolate [2007].......2007-10-02
OK, unlike most reviewers out there, I am not going to give this film the one-star verdict. It is true, the film does not proceed at a lupine pace; rather, it moves with the dexterity of an injured wolf. Far too much attention in the script-writing has been focused on the use of cliched dialogue and smulchy love scenes [as noted by Jenny J.J.I]. The acting is bland at best, especially the lead actress, Agnes Bruckner, and co-star, Bryan Dick. Hugh Dancy ['Poe', 'Bronte', 'Black Hawk Down'] saves this film with a good solid performance as the debonair waif-like comic artist who is surprisingly self-sufficient when it comes to battling these creatures.
I was nevertheless impressed by the darker aspects of the film [when they did appear], especially the opening sequence where the hunters, flashlights mounted on their rifles, tracked down and killed Vivian's family one snowy night. In fact, the directing at the beginning of the film is sharp - the well-written voiceover of a young Vivian and the complementary camera work showing her stretched out in the snow, arms and legs forming a pattern on the earth like that of an angel. Director, Katja von Garnier, cuts effectively from the hunt scene into Bucharest as it is today and an older Vivian using her inherited powers to work out through the city and its surrounding parkland. There are some further scenes shot in the woods after dark, which also lend this film a Gothic aspect: the scenes where Alpha Male, Gabriel, commands his pack to hunt certain humans who have crossed this outcast race at some point. Here the changes from human into wolf are not ingenuous compared to a lot of special effects, but they seem to work well in this film - the pack simultaneously change while leaping into the night, like glittering moondust. And I like the fact that they become actual wolves as opposed to great lumbering beasts.
The idea behind the story is clearly that of 'shape-shifting' as opposed to the ideology of becoming a werewolf after being bitten; that these people were born with the disease and not infected with it. Is this 'supposed' to be a werewolf movie per se? It is certainly not billed as such. The metamorphosis that involves werewolves is involuntary, occuring when the moon is full; shape-shifters transform at will. Perhaps a mythic-romantic film at heart? For the juxtaposition of myth and romance works - in general - very well. It is also evident that some careful research has been done here, most notably into legend and folklore.
Flawed perhaps by too many romantically-cliched scenes, the film is crying out for more of the Gothic, like the opening which promised so much. Overall, though, not that disappointing.
Blood and Chocolate is a bad combination.......2007-08-28
No, I haven't read the book to this so this review is solely on this movie. Now for some reason I was expecting this movie to be darker, edgier, perhaps even a horror movie, who am I fooling I knew I wasn't going to get one. The PG-13 rating didn't phase me as so many horror movies are coming out now with PG-13 rating. But this one borders on PG on it good-heartedness and gentleness. It's not particularly entertaining since there's not much drama in the movie, not much to look forward to.
The lazy script co-written by Ehren Kruger and Christopher Landon follows Vivian (the oddly bland Agnes Bruckner) a chocolatier (hence, I suppose, the title) living in Romania who happens to be one of a subculture of werewolves who, from what we can tell, hang out in abandoned buildings jumping from rafters. Vivian herself enjoys jogging, throwing in the occasional leap off the wall just to show us that there's something special about her. In fact, when she first appears on screen, there's an audible sigh on the soundtrack (that might have been the sound of my interest being sucked out of the room, I'm not sure). Vivian meets-cute with the improbably-named Aiden Galvin (Hugh Dancy), a graphic-novelist doing research on, wouldn't you know it, the lore of the `Rougarou' (a fancy name for werewolves). No sooner do Vivian and Aiden start hanging about downtown Bucharest than the head baddie - named, natch, Gabriel (Olivier Martinez) - shows up to claim Vivian as his own.
If you're not bored yet, you will be. Not only does director Katja von Garnier assemble a cast almost entirely lacking in charisma but the script is full of odd-sayings like "May you recognize the age of hope when you see it," "What we're not is what we're taught to fear," and my personal favorite "If you cared about me, you'd have left me before we ever met." I spent more time thinking about that last one than the whole rest of the movie. Mr. Kruger is usually good for a few laughs, but he's slumming it here with expository nonsense like "It's...silver!" and "Creeks...lead to rivers!" The love story didn't convince me all that much. On the positive side, I like the fact that this was filmed in Bucharest, it sure looks like an interesting city so there are some great sights here. My main concern here is that the wolves may have been harmed during filming. At the end of the movie there is no disclaimer that no animal was harmed, instead there's something to the effect that efforts were made avoid injury, which isn't quite the same. The mythology behind the story is good too. I like the special effects and the transformations to loup garou change, but even that wasn't anything that eye-catching.
"Blood and Chocolate" is too slow for its own good, the characters too bland and the plot too convoluted to reach the heights to which it aspires (and with a pedigree like "from the creators of `Underworld'", it doesn't aspire too much). In the end, "Blood" only succeeds in mimicking the beasts it holds so dear: it bites.
Customer Reviews:
Blood & Chocolate [2007].......2007-10-02
OK, unlike most reviewers out there, I am not going to give this film the one-star verdict. It is true, the film does not proceed at a lupine pace; rather, it moves with the dexterity of an injured wolf. Far too much attention in the script-writing has been focused on the use of cliched dialogue and smulchy love scenes [as noted by Jenny J.J.I]. The acting is bland at best, especially the lead actress, Agnes Bruckner, and co-star, Bryan Dick. Hugh Dancy ['Poe', 'Bronte', 'Black Hawk Down'] saves this film with a good solid performance as the debonair waif-like comic artist who is surprisingly self-sufficient when it comes to battling these creatures.
I was nevertheless impressed by the darker aspects of the film [when they did appear], especially the opening sequence where the hunters, flashlights mounted on their rifles, tracked down and killed Vivian's family one snowy night. In fact, the directing at the beginning of the film is sharp - the well-written voiceover of a young Vivian and the complementary camera work showing her stretched out in the snow, arms and legs forming a pattern on the earth like that of an angel. Director, Katja von Garnier, cuts effectively from the hunt scene into Bucharest as it is today and an older Vivian using her inherited powers to work out through the city and its surrounding parkland. There are some further scenes shot in the woods after dark, which also lend this film a Gothic aspect: the scenes where Alpha Male, Gabriel, commands his pack to hunt certain humans who have crossed this outcast race at some point. Here the changes from human into wolf are not ingenuous compared to a lot of special effects, but they seem to work well in this film - the pack simultaneously change while leaping into the night, like glittering moondust. And I like the fact that they become actual wolves as opposed to great lumbering beasts.
The idea behind the story is clearly that of 'shape-shifting' as opposed to the ideology of becoming a werewolf after being bitten; that these people were born with the disease and not infected with it. Is this 'supposed' to be a werewolf movie per se? It is certainly not billed as such. The metamorphosis that involves werewolves is involuntary, occuring when the moon is full; shape-shifters transform at will. Perhaps a mythic-romantic film at heart? For the juxtaposition of myth and romance works - in general - very well. It is also evident that some careful research has been done here, most notably into legend and folklore.
Flawed perhaps by too many romantically-cliched scenes, the film is crying out for more of the Gothic, like the opening which promised so much. Overall, though, not that disappointing.
Blood and Chocolate is a bad combination.......2007-08-28
No, I haven't read the book to this so this review is solely on this movie. Now for some reason I was expecting this movie to be darker, edgier, perhaps even a horror movie, who am I fooling I knew I wasn't going to get one. The PG-13 rating didn't phase me as so many horror movies are coming out now with PG-13 rating. But this one borders on PG on it good-heartedness and gentleness. It's not particularly entertaining since there's not much drama in the movie, not much to look forward to.
The lazy script co-written by Ehren Kruger and Christopher Landon follows Vivian (the oddly bland Agnes Bruckner) a chocolatier (hence, I suppose, the title) living in Romania who happens to be one of a subculture of werewolves who, from what we can tell, hang out in abandoned buildings jumping from rafters. Vivian herself enjoys jogging, throwing in the occasional leap off the wall just to show us that there's something special about her. In fact, when she first appears on screen, there's an audible sigh on the soundtrack (that might have been the sound of my interest being sucked out of the room, I'm not sure). Vivian meets-cute with the improbably-named Aiden Galvin (Hugh Dancy), a graphic-novelist doing research on, wouldn't you know it, the lore of the `Rougarou' (a fancy name for werewolves). No sooner do Vivian and Aiden start hanging about downtown Bucharest than the head baddie - named, natch, Gabriel (Olivier Martinez) - shows up to claim Vivian as his own.
If you're not bored yet, you will be. Not only does director Katja von Garnier assemble a cast almost entirely lacking in charisma but the script is full of odd-sayings like "May you recognize the age of hope when you see it," "What we're not is what we're taught to fear," and my personal favorite "If you cared about me, you'd have left me before we ever met." I spent more time thinking about that last one than the whole rest of the movie. Mr. Kruger is usually good for a few laughs, but he's slumming it here with expository nonsense like "It's...silver!" and "Creeks...lead to rivers!" The love story didn't convince me all that much. On the positive side, I like the fact that this was filmed in Bucharest, it sure looks like an interesting city so there are some great sights here. My main concern here is that the wolves may have been harmed during filming. At the end of the movie there is no disclaimer that no animal was harmed, instead there's something to the effect that efforts were made avoid injury, which isn't quite the same. The mythology behind the story is good too. I like the special effects and the transformations to loup garou change, but even that wasn't anything that eye-catching.
"Blood and Chocolate" is too slow for its own good, the characters too bland and the plot too convoluted to reach the heights to which it aspires (and with a pedigree like "from the creators of `Underworld'", it doesn't aspire too much). In the end, "Blood" only succeeds in mimicking the beasts it holds so dear: it bites.
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