The Wolfman

In reimagining the 1941 Lon Chaney Jr. horror film of the same name, screenwriters Andrew Kevin Walker and David Self have beefed up the Freudian family drama, added a romance between the recently returned Talbot heir (Del Toro) and his murdered brother’s fiancée (Emily Blunt), and thrown in a detective (Hugo Weaving). The film starts off blessedly light on CGI wolvery, but Johnston yields to the computer’s siren song for the chase-and-gore second half. But, oh lordy, is Hopkins having fun as Del Toro’s mad, bad and dangerous-to-know father. We went for the wolf, but what we got was ham.

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