Name: Wolves (2014)
IMDb: link to IMDb
Genres: Horror. Country of Origin: Canada.
Cast: Lucas Till (X-Men 2011, 2014; Stoker) as Cayden Richards, Stephen McHattie (Haunter, 300) as John Tollerman, John Pyper-Ferguson (Drive, Unforgiven) as Wild Joe, Jason Momoa as Connory Slaughter, Merritt Patterson as Angelina Timmins, Janet Laine-Green as Clara Tollerman.
Written and directed by: David Hayter.
The initial tableaux: Cayden starts out as a high school quarterback with a fine girlfriend. Things devolve quickly for him. His behaviour on the field brings up questions. When the girlfriend suggests having sex in her car, his arousal triggers something else, and she runs screaming. He returns to his home only to awake with his parents dead and blood on his hands.
While the cops attempt to get enough evidence on him to put him away, Cayden hits the road. He eventually meets Wild Joe at a bar, and Wild Joe points him to Lupine Ridge.
Delineation of conflicts: Cayden wants to know more about who he is, and why he goes through these changes. The people in Lupine Ridge know some of the answers, but do not give them up all that easily. A gang in town is rather monopolistic about who holds what power in and around the town, and Cayden does not fit in that scheme. The people in the town and the gang outside of town have only an uneasy peace, and law enforcement seldom spends any time in the area.
Resolution: Cayden needs to uncover and resolve the tension between the town folk and the gang.
One line summary: So-so werewolf film; bad acting.
Statistics:
a. Cinematography: 6/10 Professional looking, but not all that exciting. Some of the wolf costumes were nice to look at, but did not help in the matter of building menace.
b. Sound: 5/10 Dialogue capture and playback was fine. The background music was too weak for building tension. The music over the credits was so damned horrible that 7 became a 5.
c. Acting: 4/10 Stephen McHattie and John Pyper-Ferguson were fine as usual. On the other hand, Jason Momoa was in the film, and he is one of the worst actors ever. The rest of the cast was uninteresting at best.
d. Screenplay: 4/10 Did I identify or empathise with any of the characters? No. Was there a story to follow? Yes, but the dialogue was poor on the whole.
Final rating: 5/10
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