Steineded How sad is this?

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Edgar Soberon Torchia Quite good werewolf movie, without those ugly and tacky transformations a la "An American Werewolf in London" and "The Howling". This time the writers added a different approach to the legend of the wolf men and women, providing a fine line in their half human-half animal essence that determines their behavior, giving them dignity and royal lineage, and proposing a new era of peace and less violence in their interaction with humans. The usual annoying elements that you find in commercial films are also here: editing striving for effect, too much music and a romantic musical video as some sort of plot point, when the young leading characters (a female "loup garou" and a young man) make public their attraction. But this is not the typical product providing cheap thrills. It is a fine genre motion picture, with good performances by Olivier Martínez and the young cast.

Leofwine_draca Watching BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE after sitting through the TWILIGHT saga, it's surprising how much was borrowed from this film in terms of style, mood, and feel. The werewolf transformation sequences are very similar too, and just as cheesy. Sadly, this means that BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE is yet another horror romance in an over-populated genre, and much of it is overly sentimental and rather twee.The East European setting (the wonderfully Gothic-looking streets of Bucharest) is the most inspirational and interesting thing about this otherwise vapid story. A young girl (Agnes Bruckner from THE WOODS) is part of a werewolf clan who have been living in relative piece for centuries, until she falls in love with an insufferably clear-cut young artist (the insufferably bland Hugh Dancy). Before long, the love affair spells doom for the rest of the clan...Although this is largely an inoffensive film, there's little to enjoy here. The romantic stuff is hardly of the calibre of Romeo and Juliet and it doesn't help that the characters are resolutely one-dimensional. Olivier Martinez smoulders like a damp firework and fails to bring any kind of magnetism or charm to his role. German director Katja von Garnier fails to bring anything to the film other than some superficial style, and those ultra-cheesy CGI effects do nothing to enhance the experience. Altogether, it's a bit of a bore.

loveballet12 Date: 14 July, 2012 -First Time Watch- So, it was my younger sister's turn to pick a movie for our family to watch. I usually dread this since she always picks really bad movies and I thought this movie would be no exception. Since, it seems to me, most werewolf movies are made on low budgets. Even though it was produced by the same people who did 'Underworld', which is good, I still thought it wasn't going to be that good. Surprisingly, I found the movie decent. The storyline is not spectacular by any means, to me it seems like it's been done before, but it was still well done. Not exactly a must see if you ask me but it still provided some decent entertainment.6/10

someofusarebrave Way to make wolves seem terrifying and potentially murderous, y'all.This movie is interesting, in its own way--if by interesting you mean 'tremendously bloody and unnecessarily perverted.'The main character, Vivian, is a sulky, broody, somewhat rebellious twenty-something whose guilt over her parents' death hangs like a cloud.She falls for Aiden, a decent, good-ole-boy running from an assault charge in the states and perhaps his own dorkiness--he writes comics.Anybody who calls themselves a "graphic artist" in defense against accusations of being a comic-book writer is well aware he is a dork.Meanwhile Gabriel, Vivian's other potential love interest, is a jerk.He's not just a jerk in the teenager, he-never-called-me-back style.Rather, he is a cold-blooded killer who has instituted a habit of killing a human being at random judged unworthy of life by himself.This is his idea of pack bonding.In this version of the story 'Blood and Chocolate', Gabriel is also Vivian's uncle, which just adds a terrifyingly 'ick' factor to it all.As if mercilessly hunting down humans in the forest wasn't 'ick' enuf.This story is kind of entertainingly interesting in its own way. The 'girl/boy breaks away from old community by breaking its rules, falls in love with the wrong guy/girl, and thus learns to forge their own way in life' is an oldie but a goodie. The werewolf thing's a twist.The problem is that this movie has nothing to do with the original novel except the names. In that far BETTER story, Viviane's mother had escaped the fire with her, and no member of the pack blamed her for her father's death. She lived in the U.S., not Romania. She went to school with Aiden, and she met him there. The entire pack had lived with child!Vivian and her parents before the fire, and they lived together still.They were not the only werewolf pack in the world, which made more sense as Werewolf legends seem to exist everywhere these days.Vivian was seventeen, and her mother was pushing her to commit to Gabriel because he was the new leader of the pack; there was no talk of some "mysterious" prophecy, which is an always groan-worthy insertion.The book is more a story of coming to terms with one's relationship with one's community, and accepting every sacrifice that must be made to maintain the natural order within that relationship...The film is more a story of accepting oneself at the cost of one's family.Gabriel in the novel is a cigar-smoking, motorcycle-riding, consonant-dropping hunk, five years older than Vivian at most but totally hot.Vivian is meant to feel somewhat afraid of his sexual prowess and his total ease with himself and his rebellious, leather-clad attitude.She is also meant to feel drawn to Aiden's more laid-back self. She also chooses to reveal what she is to him, and he freaks out.The important difference between book and movie--the most important one, anyway--is that in the book, killing humans is against pack code.While the book is a live-and-let-live treatise, the movie is a for-god-sakes-fear-the-outsider, chances-are-s/he-does-want-you-dead masterpiece. It is a masterpiece of FEAR-MONGERING, but oh well.Can't have everything I guess, but was a smart script too much to want?In fact, Rafe and Astrid, who is not his mother but rather his consort, wind up dead at Gabriel's hands because they murder a girl.They also set Vivian up for the murder...anyway, the plot is tight.The plot is also twisty, at times difficult to follow and a mystery on top of everything else. The book is in fact incredibly intelligent.I wish the same could be said for the movie.