This is excellent !!! Jack Nicholson makes a great werewolf and what’s not to like about Michelle Pfeiffer ? James Spader and Christie Plummer add to a stellar cast. Those criticising obviously didn’t grow up in the eighties and nineties

One of the best, coolest, and most UNIQUE werewolf films ever made. It seems to bring three separate plots together—each usually belonging to their own subgenre—into one intriguing storyline that stays with you. Mike Nichols definitely understood the assignment.

Pretty good movie. Seems a bit underrated. Worth a watch.

This was a mostly silly, campy, tongue in cheek horror flick as far as I'm concerned. It seems that the actors had nothing better to do so they decided to make this flick and thoroughly enjoyed it. Nothing serious about it and I would never recommend anyone watching this except for laughs.

On my 2nd or 3rd watch ever, it's even better than I remember, in part because I have a more sophisticated (more being the operative word, not complete- I'm 39) view of story-telling and film-making, but also because this time, about 10-minutes in, I realized it's not a werewolf movie or a thriller or a romance- it can be all of those, but first it's a movie about civility. If you watch this movie, keep that word in mind, civility. Maybe it's an unintended theme, but it's deeply present throughout the film- how people with it behave and what people without it become. If you're young or otherwise cinematically unaffected, you might turn it off out of boredom after a few minutes, or laugh your ass off throughout the movie, but a piece of art is only as good as the good it does, via the joy it facilitates- so laugh! But I damn-near laugh-cried like 3-times. It's SO INTENSE! Suspension of disbelief is the price of admission, and about $4 on most streamers. Some of the best "can't take your eyes off of them" actors of our time, giving their all to a highly improbable script, and Ross Geller's in it for about 5-seconds too!

This is a criminally underrated horror film that feels refreshingly mature and adult when compared to most of the output we endure from this genre. By concentrating more on character and story than blood and guts, it comes across as more realistic and, therefore, more effective. And what a cast! I think this is one of Nicholson's better later-in-life performances and his casting is ideal, although he tends to look more and more like Wolverine's dad as the movie progresses. Pfeiffer is wonderful as always but doesn't have much of a part to play here. I'm surprised an actress of her caliber took it - I imagine it was the chance to work with Nichols and this cast. But she does own the end of this movie, which is hauntingly beautiful. Spader's casting seems a bit too obvious - I mean, we all know he can play charmingly manipulative slimeballs in his sleep. And by the end he looks a bit like Teen Wolf's obnoxious cousin. Thanks to the efforts of all involved, including director Nichols who knows how to bring out the best in his actors, this comes across as a very classy production. And "classy" is not an adjective often used to describe a horror film. You won't be jumping out of your seats or grossed out to the max, but you will be interested in the story and the journey on which Nicholson embarks. It deserved better reviews and audience attention than it got. - Jeff Marshall, Movie Blogger (Facebook)

Films like this are either good or bad. With the case of 1994's Wolf, it falls in the "good" section. It's a simple story that's overshadowed by its brilliant performances, with Jack Nicholson stealing the show.

Much of the silliness you'd expect is here, especially in that final act fight sequence. However the attempt to take an airport paperback premise seriously feels like a reasonable one and I think that Nichols mostly pulls it off because the non-werewolf scenes are just as if not more compelling than the more traditional horror material.

I've watched this film in the theater and again streamed it when I was able to find, I disagree with many of the comments here. This is an epic and fantastic movie with and incredible cast. This isn't a killer gorry movie it is romantic and empathetic, suspenseful, sexy and exciting. The best of most movies, now a days you see all these nonfiction characters making so unrealistic yet this films makes you think this could actually be real and what it would be like if it was. In my opinion 10/10

The money isn't spent on special effects here - instead it's spent on the actors. Jack Nicholson, an in-her-prime (i.e. stunning) Michelle Pfifer, a young James Spader and the late Christopher Plummer star. It's campy to be sure, but it'll hold your attention and (to be honest) I've seen it more than once.

Absolutely fantastic. The performances, the direction, and writing are superb. Would extremely recommend.

In its own delightfully peculiar way, Wolf is the only one of its kind, a horror film about office politics. A rapturous romantic thriller with a darkly comic subtext about what kills human values: working beautifully when it's rooted in reality, the Werewolf functions as a multiple metaphor for unleashed-id sexuality and the law of the corporate jungle. Slickly made with its engaging star power, skilful direction and a gorgeous score by one Ennio Morricone. It does start to unravel just after the midway point, but there are enough of those 90s charms to keep you glued to the screen even if it ends up as a rather redundant movie. Not awful; just toothless, gutless and bloodless.

Absolutely terrible with no one to pull for.

An underrated Werewolf movie classic.

My all time favorite werewolf movie (sorry Wolf Man I still love you,) I didn't used to love this when I was a kid, I found it too boring, but re-watched it 5 years ago and fell in love with it and bought the region free blu ray. Such a smart and well thought out movie for it's type, it's definitely the thinking person's werewolf movie for sure. There are very few movies in the genre as deep as this one is. It explores the soul and what it's like to be a wolf in more ways than one, I think that's why most people didn't love it back then, it was too smart for it's time. It's as much of a human story around how Will Randle mans up and betters his life after being treated like crap, as much as it's a monster flick. In a lot of ways it was trying to say "the wolf exists in all of us, we just have to discover and bring it out." They don't fully get to that point but honestly they didn't need to do so. Nichols did such a good job handling this movie that it keeps your attention and works perfectly despite not reaching it's high points. Nicholson's amazing in this movie, one of my favorite performances of his. He is SO against type to start this movie and honestly it was a really daring performance and he nailed it. Pffeifer's great as the love interest and I dig Christopher Plummer as her dad. I love Spader as well, even if I feel he's wasted. If this was made in a modern world instead of 94 it woulda been a much bigger role for him. I can't rave enough about this movie. The acting, the story, the werewolf scenes are top notch. Yes there are several, and they get wilder and wilder and more fun. A lot to love here. I'm glad it's finding an audience it deserves to be a cult movie.

Awful. Only watched til the end because I'd heard it was such a comically terrible finale. Even that wasn't worth the time. Silly and dull

So many questions about this long-winded, terribly-scripted film film. Pros: It has the most eclectic casting that only the 90s could produce - Hollywood's biggest names combined with the crème de la crème of British 온라인카지노추천 (Eileen Atkins, Prunella Scales from Fawlty Towers). Cons: Why produce a werewolf film and pretend the special effects/prosthetics revolution of the 1980s didn't happen?!?

Wolf feels like two different films cut together. The first is a satirical cinematic critique of a predatory socioeconomic heirarchy. The second is a low-budget midnight movie where two guys in cheap plastic fangs run around the woods and have a slapfight. Maybe it's all a brilliant meta commentary on Hollywood, which has highbrow aspirations but inwardly is a ravening schlock factory - but I think that's giving the filmmakers too much credit.

Meh, it passes the time.

The presence of a great cast and director seemed to suggest the possibility of a more interesting approach in Wolf than that of a traditional horror picture. However, although the film begins well, I was disappointed with the overall result. Nicholson is just fine when he's playing a weary, burnt-out book editor who finds himself undergoing a revitalizing transformation inspired by a wolf's bite. However, when he finally does become a werewolf (leaping up the sides of buildings and howling at the moon in Central Park!) things rapidly go off the rails. For example, one ridiculous scene has a slightly hairier, be-fanged Nicholson stalking a deer in Pfeiffer's vast back yard at night! He then tears out its throat (at least he had a good excuse for not staying for breakfast the next morning!) in a snarling frenzy that's really more laughable than shocking. Nelligan, Jenkins and Plummer all add typically strong support so, Wolf is worth a look for the actor's performances as well as an enjoyably literate script.