Valerie (red riding hood) is a young women living in a small village plagued by a wolf. The village sacrifices their best livestock every full moon to the wolf so it will leave their village alone, however the wolf finally kills Valerie's sister, breaking the peace. On a side note, Valerie is promised to a young blacksmith named Henry, but is not in love with him. She is instead in love with a local woodcutter, who she has been friends with for years. Back to the wolf, the village priest invites a man who is said to be an expert on wolves, to come help the village before the wolf kills again. The man who comes then reveals to the village that they are not just dealing with any wolf, but a werewolf! Not only that, but the wolf is someone living in the village with them! Who could it be?
I didn't have high hopes for this movie to begin with, seeing as how it's by the director of Twilight. However, it wasn't as bad as I thought, granted it still wasn't great. It was full of cheesy dialogue, and had a few really lame romance scenes. In other words, there were points in time when I felt like I was watching Twilight. But there were some decent parts. The wolf was cool looking and there were some interesting parts. I got sick of them trying to make us think the wolf was a certain person just so they felt as though they had the element of surprise when they revealed who the wolf was. They didn't really get into the actual red riding hood story until about the last 30 minutes. The rest just seemed like The Village. But, it was far from the worst movie I've ever seen.
It's rated PG13 for sexual content and violent, scary images. There were a lot of pretty scary deaths by wolf and other things. There were also a lot of 'jump out at you' moments, which made the people in front of me scream. I thought those moments were way overdone though, they would have that 'jump out at you' music, then end with somebody opening a box or something anti-climactic. I would say you should be 14, almost 15 to see this movie.
I wouldn't really recommend this movie. It wasn't the best, but it wasn't horrible. No need to rush out to see it.
Thanks for posting these! There was a time when I read film reviews from the local papers, and even from some guy named Ebert, but that was when we used to actually go to see movies in the theaters.
ReplyDeleteNow, it's all DVD (and usually Redbox, or free streaming on Netflix...). So now I can know months ahead of time whether or not a film sucks so we can not see it when it's a new release at Target.
Keep up the good work!