Memorable, crazy movie

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This is yet another movie I missed the first time out that I finally got to see online just now. Jack Nicholson encounters a wolf on the road on the way home when his car hits it. He stops to look at the animal laying down when he gets bitten by it. That should tell you where that's going to. Anyway, he's an editor-in-chief at a publishing house where his job is in jeopardy because of it being bought by Christopher Plummer. James Spader is Nicholson's protégé, Michelle Pfeiffer is Plummer's daughter who takes a shine to Jack. And Richard Jenkins is the police detective investigating the killings that happen. Nothing more to say except this was quite a measured take on the horror film as helmed by Mike Nichols who usually did comedies and dramas. No surprise makeup artist Rick Baker was involved considering his previous work on An American Werewolf in London. By the way, here it's referred to as a "demon wolf". Great music score by Ennio Morricone. Nothing more to say except I thoroughly enjoyed Wolf. P.S. Look for David Hyde Pierce, Allison Janney, and David Schwimmer in small roles.

Mike Nichol's Wolf cleverly combines comedic character study, spoofs the high profile business scene and whips it together with a far more literal lycanthropic horror story than I'd ever imagined before I watched it. It's neat that dry metaphor went full on genuinely real monster flick, while losing none of it's smarts along the way. Jack Nicholson, that old devil, plays an aging publisher whose livelihood is threatened by the arrival of a roguish young upstart (James Spader laying down that smarm) with designs on his job. It doesn't help that he's worn out, weary and not as sharp as he once was. Cue a werewolf mauling, which fixes those things right quick and turns him into a new man, in more ways than one. He's fiercely competitive, virile and on the ball, but he also has to keep his hairy secret, well, a secret. Christopher Plummer is great as his fiery tempered boss, whose daughter (slinky Michelle Pfeiffer) begins to have eyes for the old dog, and the supporting cast has well coloured turns from Kate Nelligan, Ron Rifkin, Om Puri, David Hyde Pierce, Eileen Atkins, David Schwimmer and Richard Jenkins as a wily detective who begins to sniff the rat. The Wolf effects by Rick Baker and team are refreshingly old school, practical prosthetics and nice and gooey too. It's also a tongue in cheek examination of male potency and territorial behaviour, so what better avenues of exploration than instinctual canine interaction and the politics of the workplace? Cool stuff, neat genre blending, a wicked cast and cool horror elements.

Returning back to work after an accident, a publisher is suddenly endowed with a strange series of powers and abilities from the encounter and gradually realizes he's become a werewolf and must keep it in check before harming others.Frankly this one turned out to be quite enjoyable is problematic effort. When this one works is basically in the first half here, as this here is when it builds all the details about his affliction and condition turning into his real-life with the outburst of hair, the main change in attitude and overall personality change into being more ruthless and vindictive towards others as a result of this, and along with the sensory enhancements it paints a rather intriguing air while subtly hinting at the change. Due to this set-up, the early scenes of the transformation come off nicely as the deer attack out in the woods or jumping the hoodlums mid-change while in the park serve as fine introductions to the change, and coupled with the growing evidence really completes the picture. That also manages to make the big action- packed finale quite fun as there's a large, drawn-out brawl here through the barn and gets quite bloody as well. These here help it out, although there are quite a few problems here. The majority of these flaws here come from the film's inability to come to terms with what it wants to be, as the classy nature of this one is really troubling by holding down the true horror nature of the story. It really holds back here on the creature, both in the make-up and the creature' overall behavior as the wolf make-up is slightly haphazard with contact lenses and splotchy hair around the edges of his face being the only signifiers of the change which looks utterly lazy as a horror film while being too dark for the mainstream crowd. There's even the lame behavior of jumping around on wires for just about anything here resulting in superhuman leaps for an all-around weak main creatures that's all based on not appearing too controversial for the mainstream crowd, as if it's apologizing for being a horror film. There's not a whole lot of good will associated with a film if it doesn't accept what it really is, and is what really harms this one the most here. The last flaws here is the bland, unappealing pacing here that really doesn't offer much as this is mostly filled with utterly bland subplots, a really bland romance that unravels quite slowly that it really takes forever to get anywhere and never set-ups up too many horror scenes here in this section by keeping the whole thing downgraded in favor of these other elements that turn it away from a horror film. There here are what really hold this one back.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence and mild violence-against-animals.

Wolf is not your average run of the mill movies concerning werewolves. The movie is reminiscent of the old Lon Chaney, Jr. film 'The Wolf Man (1941)' yet two stories are nothing alike. 'Wolf' is a unique kind of wolf-man film. It's nothing like 'American Werewolf in London' nor is it like the movie 'Bad Moon'. Wolf is a one of a kind werewolf movie that you would have to watch in order to get the full grasp of it's unique style and story.I love this movie - it is one of the best werewolf movies I have ever seen. And it is one of best movies that Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer has ever made - in my opinion. Both film stars are outstanding in this film. 'Wolf' is better than the comedy-drama 'The Witches of Eastwick' (which stars both Nicholson and Pfeiffer). - and I enjoyed WoE too.This is such an underrated but good werewolf film. 8.5/10