A couple of weeks ago the trailer for the upcoming 2009 The Wolfman movie with Benicio Del Toro hit the web, I mean it was leaked online. According to my previous posts, the new movie is a hot and catching remake of the classic werewolf tale. Together with Benicio such starts as Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving will be in it.

After watching the trailer I had a feeling that the film is something that would deliver. During a couple of minutes we were shown a number of details, scenes and ideas. Frankly speaking, there is a whirl of emotions in me.

First of all, London and its suburbs look incredible in the movie. The city is really dreary and isolated because most of its inhabitants being threatened by a nightmarish beast. The second option I like, actually, it is only a guess, this movie seemed to touch upon something bigger and more important than a fact of changing of a man into a wolf. It is about the process and reasons of changing. The third thing that impresses me is the way they changed the appearance of the wolfman, now it looks completely believable and stands on four legs.

Frankly speaking, I didn’t like one thing – a number of visual effects, there are a lot of them and as to me they distract us from the idea of the movie.

What do you think?