Director: Anthony Waller
Year: 1997
Country: United Kingdom/Netherlands/Luxembourg/USA/France/Germany
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Werewolf
Plot:
After saving a suicidal woman at the Eifel Tower, a group of American tourists learn that she's secretly a werewolf trying to end her life, but when he's accidentally turned, he goes to her for help against the pack who turned him.
Review:
There are a lot of great parts here that make this one enjoyable. Among the better features here is the action along the way here, which has such a great feel in generating the kind of extravagant pace that's required here. This starts off nicely with the rescue attempt on the Eifel Tower but really gets good here with the massacre at the club which takes place in the underground catacombs as not only is the escape attempt in the underground tunnels being really exciting in those creepy places but the action of ripping apart the others trapped upstairs makes this an utterly enjoyable time.
There's the great encounter with the strapped-down werewolf in the basement that's rather fun, and another big chase through a cemetery as the stalking and escape attempts get even more fun times in here, while the biggest scene here is the final assault in the second club sequence where they interrupt the second party in grand fashion resulting in the chaos from their disruption and panic, the confrontations with the police and finally getting to the big brawls down in the catacombs and out onto the subway train for some incredibly enjoyable action scenes throughout this. As well as what happened in the original, there's some rather fun times here with the light-hearted comedy that's a great deal funnier as the same gags with the decomposing corpses appearing to him, only there's a lot of fun with their appearances often coming up in the most inopportune places to manipulate the situation against him.
These here manage to hold off what is really the one lone flaw in here, but which is incredibly detrimental to this one. The fact is that this one is absolutely littered with appalling, atrocious CGI, which really lowers this one as practically every frame of werewolf activity here is caused by this. Very rarely does it use them for anything else, resulting in horrible transformations and attacks that look completely ridiculous and never once believable or convincing, which is even more problematic considering what happened in the original, where this wasn't a factor at all. Not only that, but the design tries way too hard to emulate the original, which makes it look cheap altogether. These here are what hold this one down.
Overview: ***.5/5
A better-than-expected modern werewolf effort, this one comes together well enough to be quite likable for what it is, even with enough flaws to keep it down. Those who are more willing to give this a shot or are just fans of this style of genre effort will want to give this a chance while most others out there turned off by its issues should heed caution.
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