Sorry, this movie sucks

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Date: 14 July, 2012 -First Time Watch- So, it was my younger sister's turn to pick a movie for our family to watch. I usually dread this since she always picks really bad movies and I thought this movie would be no exception. Since, it seems to me, most werewolf movies are made on low budgets. Even though it was produced by the same people who did 'Underworld', which is good, I still thought it wasn't going to be that good. Surprisingly, I found the movie decent. The storyline is not spectacular by any means, to me it seems like it's been done before, but it was still well done. Not exactly a must see if you ask me but it still provided some decent entertainment.6/10

This movie sucked. I read the book and loved it so watching this was really sad. It totally strays from the original plot line. The book is set in the US and the characters are totally different. They are all younger in the book than in the movie,Vivian doesn't live with her aunt, Aiden is supposed to be a hippie and Gabriel is the badass but not the bad guy. Most annoying is the ending of the movie because Vivian kills Gabriel and runs away with Adien, but in the book she ends up with Gabriel and the pack. Even though I mainly hated the movie because of its changes to the book I also didn't like the movie itself. It just seemed dated and old, I didn't think it was filmed in 2007. Also, the actors that were cast didn't fit to me. Overall, how it was all put together sucked.

Way to make wolves seem terrifying and potentially murderous, y'all.This movie is interesting, in its own way--if by interesting you mean 'tremendously bloody and unnecessarily perverted.'The main character, Vivian, is a sulky, broody, somewhat rebellious twenty-something whose guilt over her parents' death hangs like a cloud.She falls for Aiden, a decent, good-ole-boy running from an assault charge in the states and perhaps his own dorkiness--he writes comics.Anybody who calls themselves a "graphic artist" in defense against accusations of being a comic-book writer is well aware he is a dork.Meanwhile Gabriel, Vivian's other potential love interest, is a jerk.He's not just a jerk in the teenager, he-never-called-me-back style.Rather, he is a cold-blooded killer who has instituted a habit of killing a human being at random judged unworthy of life by himself.This is his idea of pack bonding.In this version of the story 'Blood and Chocolate', Gabriel is also Vivian's uncle, which just adds a terrifyingly 'ick' factor to it all.As if mercilessly hunting down humans in the forest wasn't 'ick' enuf.This story is kind of entertainingly interesting in its own way. The 'girl/boy breaks away from old community by breaking its rules, falls in love with the wrong guy/girl, and thus learns to forge their own way in life' is an oldie but a goodie. The werewolf thing's a twist.The problem is that this movie has nothing to do with the original novel except the names. In that far BETTER story, Viviane's mother had escaped the fire with her, and no member of the pack blamed her for her father's death. She lived in the U.S., not Romania. She went to school with Aiden, and she met him there. The entire pack had lived with child!Vivian and her parents before the fire, and they lived together still.They were not the only werewolf pack in the world, which made more sense as Werewolf legends seem to exist everywhere these days.Vivian was seventeen, and her mother was pushing her to commit to Gabriel because he was the new leader of the pack; there was no talk of some "mysterious" prophecy, which is an always groan-worthy insertion.The book is more a story of coming to terms with one's relationship with one's community, and accepting every sacrifice that must be made to maintain the natural order within that relationship...The film is more a story of accepting oneself at the cost of one's family.Gabriel in the novel is a cigar-smoking, motorcycle-riding, consonant-dropping hunk, five years older than Vivian at most but totally hot.Vivian is meant to feel somewhat afraid of his sexual prowess and his total ease with himself and his rebellious, leather-clad attitude.She is also meant to feel drawn to Aiden's more laid-back self. She also chooses to reveal what she is to him, and he freaks out.The important difference between book and movie--the most important one, anyway--is that in the book, killing humans is against pack code.While the book is a live-and-let-live treatise, the movie is a for-god-sakes-fear-the-outsider, chances-are-s/he-does-want-you-dead masterpiece. It is a masterpiece of FEAR-MONGERING, but oh well.Can't have everything I guess, but was a smart script too much to want?In fact, Rafe and Astrid, who is not his mother but rather his consort, wind up dead at Gabriel's hands because they murder a girl.They also set Vivian up for the murder...anyway, the plot is tight.The plot is also twisty, at times difficult to follow and a mystery on top of everything else. The book is in fact incredibly intelligent.I wish the same could be said for the movie.

The book that this movie is based on is actually a lot better then the movie. I do prefer the book over this movie. THe movie is completely different then the book. THey take place in two totally different places. I am not saying that i don't like the movie. i mean i do like it but I saw the movie before i knew there was a book and i have to say that the movie get basically everything wrong. So for the people that want a better plot line read the book. I do still watch the movie. i am watching the movies as i type this review on the movie. i shall try not to spoil any thing for or i hope not but even the ending are different in the book.