Movie review – “The Wolfman” (2010) ***

It took me a while to warm up to this remake of the 1941 classic, but once I did, I started to enjoy it. Benicio del Toro isn't quite as moving or tragic as Lon Chaney Jnr, Anthony Hopkins is mean spirited in the Claude Rains role and Emily Blunt very pretty in a not-much part. Impressive production design and special effects: the wolf man really cuts loose in this one, running riot through the fields and in London. He takes out a fair few innocent people - the death toll is high - so he does lack sympathy. The expressionistic, trippy sequences work well.