Wolf Man

Abbott is a smart, soulful actor, but there’s not enough tension in his character before Blake starts changing; he seems less like a case study in latent, animalistic rage than an unlucky sap who took his family on vacation at the wrong time.

It's a bit of a sheep in in Wolf's clothing... it's just a bit dull.

Compared to The Invisible Man it's a serious misstep for Whannell. Compared to The Mummy, well, that might have been a wreck of a movie, but at least it was occasionally fun.

Thoughtful, quietly provocative and freaky.

Sloppily crafted, chronically exaggerated and drowning in contrivances and cliches, Wolf Man is gritty but underwhelming, and never scary because it is never believable.

Abbott gives an admirable performance of struggling against his fearful fate, and thankfully, the creature design doesn’t bury him in prosthetics, giving us a very expressive, very human werewolf.

Wolf Man’s lackadaisical cul-de-sac of promising ideas, wildly disparate tones, and dead air begs the question of "why did they make this?"

While I appreciate the new take on a Wolf Man story the end result leaves a lot to be desired.

... the characters suffer from the horror film syndrome of making one idiotic decision after another because what's the film requires to send the action in its intended direction.

Wolf Man is rarely conventionally satisfying as either a tentpole or a werewolf movie, and more power to it; but its vision is a tad blinkered.