Wolf (I) (2019) User Reviews

How was this shown at a multiplex?!

[lordweffington · 1/10 · 18 September 2019]

Let's start with the positives: there was a very clear shot of the moon - a crisp, clear image, the score had musical instruments in it and the beards looked real. It's not very long.

Other than that....every thing about this was just plain bad. Awful. If an infinite number of monkeys etc could blah blah Shakespeare, one monkey with half a crayon and a piece of cardboard and a hangover would be embarrassed to have written this. And the director may not even have been an animal. A houseplant, perhaps? Each actor said their monkey-written lines in turn, then a pause, then the next actor says something daft. This wasn't even so bad it's quite funny. I can't say anymore because writing this is making me remember the film which is making me feel tired and cold inside.

If you're at home and looking for a way to pass some time and the choice is this or unblocking a septic tank with your bare hands, good luck and wear safety glasses...

How did this make it beyond YouTube?

[tobycross · 1/10 · 20 September 2019]

Firstly, I have to confess that I got so fed up with this film that I left after 1hr, so if anything good happens beyond the 60min point then, dang it, I missed it!! But I based on what I DID see it's pretty unlikely.

The premise of a Werewolf in Roman Briton was very appealing. Indeed, the legend of the lycanthrope is referenced in Gaius Petronius Arbiter's 'Satyricon' written in AD60 - so there is even some historical relevance. But that's where the interesting stuff ends.

The acting is wooden, the costumes are too bright and shiny and the "hey, my buddy just bought a drone, let's use that for every shot" cinematography was a real drag. Sadly, it wasn't even bad enough to be charming. The only positive thing I can say is that some of the lighting was dramatic. As for everything else, Poorly executes families tropes from a bygone era.

I never walk out , but

[Tillbrooke · 1/10 · 19 September 2019]

85 minites of this utter dross tested my patience! Zero acting, talking head script and special effects makeup that kids wouldn't use on their Halloween costumes. Avold in the cinema, dvd or the streaming platforms. Save the 85 mintites for something else - bathing the dog, cleaning the toilet , spending time with the in- laws, anything but wasting it on this dross.

Awful

[oneteechi · 1/10 · 19 September 2019]

Terrible acting, terrible script and terrible filming. Poor use of cinematography, no build up in tension, laughable, we literally laughed out at how bad it was. Walked out after 30 minutes

A grown man has made a student film

[cinemawithcj · 1/10 · 18 September 2019]

Wolf can be respected as a movie that has been made and put out in cinemas...and also inspirational in the fact that if this movie can get made, anyone can do it.

Wolf feels exactly like the too ambitious movie project a student would make. Brilliant drone shots escorted by a horrible expositional script that feels very much shot around the idea but without the budget or vision to execute the screenplay.

The casting really does feel amateur and student-like, down to the director/writer/producer and the token old actor and recast characters.

It's a shame, Wolf could have been more with stupid cheesy werewolf effects or with microphones that worked. Instead the film is poorly edited, sounds amateur, and effectively is an 85 minute movie that feels like a 180 minute one.

Awful

[elcorris · 1/10 · 30 September 2019]

The only thing horror about this film is that it's absolutely horrible.

Awful awful film

Fail Caesar

[metal-tigger · 1/10 · 17 September 2019]

I've never left a review on here before, however I'd also never left a film early until now. Thankfully I have a cinema membership so I didn't pay entry for this otherwise i would have been looking for a refund or transfer to another film. Poor acting, script, pace, camera work, this film had me redeeming qualities for me.

Dire wolf?

[robstephenson-68107 · 1/10 · 17 September 2019]

This is bad- really. I feel awkward just trying to describe how terrible it really is. I feel sorry for the actors.

Just don't bother.

Rubbish.

[karloffuncanny · 1/10 · 18 September 2019]

I have been watching films now for 40 plus years and I can honestly say that this is the worst film I have ever seen. Can't really add to what others have said except it makes Cubby Brown's UFO look like Citizen Kane.

Just horrible

[kelchu · 1/10 · 27 September 2019]

Saw the poster for this and my cinema buddy and I decided, why not there's nothing else on. Wish I'd just stayed in bed............ This is basically the dog soldiers script ripped off and now Roman soldiers doing the hunters being hunted thing. The acting is terrible, the special effects (and I use the phrase very woefully) are appalling. The weapon play is disastrous and like another review said the best part of the movie is the moon at the start and the end credits. I wasn't sticking around to see if there were any post credit scenes. Sincerely this is 1 1/2 hours of my precious life I and whoever watches this can never get back.

Shocking!

[paulcthompson41 · 1/10 · 20 September 2019]

I could only manage about 30mins of this tripe. Awful acting and script, although some of the cinematography was quite good.

If anyone can fill me in as to the ending (if anyone actually stayed to the end?).

Wolfuly Bad

[meshborg68 · 1/10 · 18 September 2019]

The only postive i can take from this pathetic excuse of a film was only 3 people had to suffer through the pain in my cineworld screening.Extreme low budget with terrible acting,Zero special effects and woeful acting.

It must be some kind of a joke!!!

[schumacherro · 1/10 · 16 September 2019]

Is this serious???? Was really this movie allowed to be produced, directed and released in cinema??? If I knew that is THIS bad, I would have stayed at home and better watch some old Tom & Jerry cartoons instead!! First of all, what was a black woman doing in the Roman army??? This is making fun out of history!! I will just randomly mention a few other things from the movie. A man mentions that he thought that Romans are usually travelling by at least 10, yet in the beginning they are saying that looking for a 3 men missing. Throughout almost the entire movie there are close ups, so we cannot see the surroundings, most of the time all of them are without their helmets, yeah, very good defense, later on from somewhere some blankets will appear as well to cover themselves in the freezing cold. A woman is pretending to be cleaning herself by a river NAKED in the FREEZING cold and she is not in a hurry at all, doesn't show the slightest sign of being cold. In a dark forest, full moon or not, doesn't matter, there is some light ONLY wherever the soldiers are, once they move out of the scene they immediately disappear in pitch dark!! :). Then finally in the last 10 minutes we will see these creatures which for some reason supposed to be called werewolves!! Earlier one of the soldiers says that he is noticing some animal footprints which should be ones of a wolf, but as we can see, these "werewolves are no more than humans with fangs in their mouths, naked, not even covered by fur and all of a sudden in the end they are killed just like that, while back in the beginning they were standing in a circle, they were even BITTEN by them while they couldn't even SEE the creatures!!! :). So, yes... there are many other huge failures, all together the whole production is a huge failure, so as a summary, I hope that I can help people not to bother wasting their times with this.... thank you for reading.

Always watch a film to the end

[jbell5255 · 1/10 · 17 September 2019]

I give it one for the end credits could finally leave then

Craps on history and the horror genre

[RvBreukie · 1/10 · 2 March 2020]

Sometimes when you watch a movie, you start to think about what the director and writers thought at the start thought the finished product would be like. Honestly, they should have thought about it and left it at that.

Poor script, poor acting, very few moments of historical correctness and gone overboard with political correctness. I mean, a female legionairre? I'm all for having tough women in movies, but a female legionairre simply wouldn't have happened, Romans wouldn't even have considered it. I get this is fantasy, but it's based on reality. Then they should at least get the historical foundation right, same goes for some of the equipment. It's not that hard to find someone who actually has knowledge about the Roman period and army. It just shows that the director and writers didn't even take their own movie serious, how is an audience supposed to be seriously entertained by it then?

My advice would be to skip this and find yourself a movie of at least some quality to entertain yourself.

So poor I feel quite angry

[mygdprprotection · 1/10 · 18 September 2019]

I don't normally leave poor reviews but there us always a first time.

I must share some of the blame, I should have checked reviews first, I usually do, but this time I saw Romans - check and Werewolves - check. I wasn't expecting it to be great but I wasn't expecting it to be so terrible.

Luckily I have Cineworld Unlimited so you could say at least it didn't cost me anything, but I still feel cheated. It stole my time, I could have been watching something else.

Please avoid this film, it is very bad, and not in a "so bad it is funny" sort of way.

Garth Marenghi made a werewolf film

[rothrouga · 2/10 · 19 September 2019]

Firstly, I agree with everyone else. The core concept behind this is great.... however the execution is awful.

Watch Garth Marenghi's Dark Place and then watch this. I think my favourite bit of terrible sound editing is split between the generic crackling fire sound or when they bang their swords against their wooden shields to a metallic CLANG noise.

At the end (spoiler) a woman randomly turns up and delivers the solution behind what has been going on, in a way that has blatantly been dubbed on in the post edit to try and tie things together.

Never been more glad of my cineworld membership, my history loving boyfriend came out laughing manically

Wolf ... more like cry wolf.

[Kai_Proctor · 17 September 2019]

Oh Dear.

Start with the good bits. Costumes and make up were fine. Location : sunny and snowy Scotland. Acting wasn't bad.

Now for the bad bits. The script was bereft of polish and drafts. The plot left a lot to be desired. Special effects for the monster(s) lacking, perhaps a lack of budget was the culprit. The fangs were at best amateurish or cheap - being kind.

Cinematography was acceptable. However some parts could have used some rudimentary lighting assistance in the shape of some reflectors to counteract the shadowing of the eyes which any film student worth their salt would have noticed immediately. Cardinal sin - you have to see the actors faces in particular their eyes. it's no use if their eyes are in blackness or shadow.

Lack of variety of wide angle shots showing the characters, except for the aerial drone or Arriflex shots. Didn't give the audience a sense of varied perspective.

Watch, Wolfen, An American Werewolf in London, The Company of Wolves, Silver Bullet or Ginger Snaps instead of this garbage.

In short avoid.

Rating withheld for reasons of the ability to rate zero out of ten.

Unwatchable

[kyle-butler-428-131678 · 1/10 · 17 September 2019]

Couldn't make it to the end of this film, poor script, poor acting, poor music and visuals. I have an unlimited card for cineworld and this is the first film I have ever walked out on!

Poor

[robsonchristopher · 1/10 · 16 September 2019]

I'm not going to add another synopsis but I am going to warn would be watchers. This film is very low budget and feels stretched all the way through. The fight scenes are woeful, the acting is amateur, the script is diabolical with pathetic flashbacks to other fight scenes. The music was straight out of a TV movie adding zero atmospheric presence. The whole film felt like a bad episode of a tv soap with a tiny bit of horror thrown in. The cinema had 20 plus people in at the start but more than half walked out.

What did I just watch??

[simonhowe-35017 · 1/10 · 16 September 2019]

Wow! Yes; Wow! So I don't generally like to leave negative comments about movies, but I tell it like it is. So, to put a positive spin on this; "Wolf" is a great example of how to NOT make a movie about Romans and werewolves.

You know that movie, Dog Soldiers? That one where some British Army soldiers are on a live-fire exercise in Scotland when they encounter a group of werewolves? That was a low budget, but quality movie, with some great actors, and a witty script. Wolf, is nothing like that.

Take one for the team; I watch these things so you don't have to!

It honestly tries really hard to be a proper movie, but honestly? It fails at (almost) every level. The plot (such as it is) is weak and hackneyed, the dialogue is terrible, and full of cliches and forced exposition, the characters are awful, the acting is mediocre at best (but one guy clearly thought he was in Game of Thrones), the uniforms and armour are wrong, the musical score was poor and cliched; heck, even the photography, (being the one singular redeeming feature) which looked nice and was nicely composed, was over-exposed and under-contrasted making it all look a bit washed out.

Then, when the movie climax comes, and you still have seen very little actual werewolf action, it becomes clear why apart from the shadows running across in front of the camera, you haven't seen them yet! It's because they seem to have zero special effects budget, and have to resort to people with some make-up and big false-teeth. And really, they just look like people made-up a bit. Those particular shots only last a second because any longer - well, just thank crikey they don't!

And as for that (*no-spoilers*) ending, well I'm like, "Really?? You're leaving us there? But you haven't finished the story yet!!"

But don't let any of that put you off! Watch it, and be entertained as I was by it's sheer earnestness, this movie takes itself way too seriously, even from the very opening setting script. Terrible as this film was, I smiled and laughed to myself for the entire journey!

This is a stupid romp of weak film making, and should be celebrated for that fact! If you watch this at the theatre - know what you're getting for your money and watch it with that approach, otherwise you will leave half way through and feel cheated of your hard earned cash!

I'm sorry, but even your political correctness didn't save the movie.

[hao-85820 · 1/10 · 7 March 2020]

I really wanted to give this movie a chance, really... But when I saw a black woman beeing a full plated Roman soldier, I gave up... Where this world is goin to? Black Margaret of Anjou, black Heimdahl, black Achilles. I'm begging you people, STOP! I really don't mind black Nick Fury, black Kingpin, black this-guy-from-The-Legend (all fictional characters) but you have no idea, how much you are killing the movie, by altering historical facts so much!

So bad, it's almost funny

[leannepm · 1/10 · 16 September 2019]

I don't know where to begin, bad acting, bad dialogue, bad continuity, bad script...although we did burst out laughing a few times with how awful it is.

Steve, I hope you are reading this

[Seoras_Eaglesham · 1/10 · 29 September 2019]

Steven, you are solely responsible for this utter stain on reality. This film (if it can be called a film) killed my son, Billy, and his close male companion, Sean, due to boredom. I am fuming! Please unmake this film to save our species.

Sincerely,

Some kind of Wolf or Man we aren't sure.

how does this have a 7 rating on imdb?

[raynick · 1/10 · 2 March 2020]

This would be ok if it was written and produced by a third grader. This movie is just horrible and I don't understand how it got the 7 rating on imdb. From what I could see there are at least 20 reviews that are all 1 star and then a lone rating from probably one of the cast of a 10. Some of my favorite movies on are only a 5-6 and they are masterpieces compared to this.