I would first like to state that this is probably the least populous I have ever seen New York City in a movie, ever and found it completely unbelievable. If New York was populated as it should be I highly doubt that a pack of Wolves err excuse me Wolfen would be able to live in New York. I found this movie to be boring and have limited thrills and a lot of unnecesary scenes. The entire character of the female psychologist was irrelevant to the plot and seemed to be there just so that Finney would have someone to mumble lines to (oh and have sex with, in another totally worthless scene that went no where, but is probably the only sex scene in film to be shown in "wolfen vision"). When the "mystery" if you want to call it that finally gets revealed all we are left with is a very anti-climactic ending and a heavy handed message about learning to share the world with animals. Just because the movie has a "good" message doesn't make the movie good. As a horror movie it's slow with little tension, lots of pointless scenes and dialogue, a totally unlikeable protagonist. I guess after writing this review I'm surprised I gave this movie a "4", I'm thinking I might need to change it to a "3". Go check out American Werewolf in London, or the Howling or even the original Wolfman before watching this. BTW did anyone think the scene with a naked Edward James Olmos acting like a wolf(en) down by the docks was necessary?
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