The first half of this Australian serial killer movie was great. Good setup and a fairly original serial killer obsessed with sharks. The acting was decent and the only thing a little woke is the boyfriend casting. While he is indeed Australian he is mixed race while the vast majority of Australians are white. The acting was pretty good and the writing was solid with a good setup for the final half. Then it all took a nosedive. The writing took a turn for the worse and the female victim turns into a invincible superhero. So this serial killer whos been getting away with this for years decides to make a spectacle of killing someone in the middle of multiple land masses where a chopper flies by overhead rather than out to sea. The smaller boyfriend gets beat to hell by the much larger killer than overpowers him and almost kills him. The way the boyfriend manages to track them down and find them without any effort is completely implausible. Then there is the Mary Sue female 'victim'. She's the usual strong independent female that doesn't need anyone and can do everything. She can save herself, save her beta mixed
race boyfriend and defeat the huge male serial killer all by her feminist self. It's ridiculous and ruins what started out to be a decent low budget movie. If you watch this make sure you at least watch the grand finale with the shark and the killer. It's probably one of the most unintentionally laugh out loud terrible CG shots I've seen in a while.

This is a tiny budget film with mostly 2 characters in a limited space. The male's acting is fine while the females is bad. She is the usual nasty, violent, unlikable female character we see so much now. She's not only unlikable shed downright detestable. She's annoying, stupid and acts completely unrealistic given the situation. I kept hoping the male character would bash her over the head and leave her behind. Given the way she is acting any normal person would have done so and he had plenty of opportunities to disarm her and reliever himself of her presence. She is a horrible character who single handedly makes the movie unbearable. That being said the premise here is some sort of alien creature invasion where the 2 characters are trapped in underground tunnels in the dark trying to survive and find their way out. That's pretty much it. This could of been a decent claustrophobic creepy creature feature if not for some odd directing decisions. For one
there is no reason for this to be 100 minutes long. There just isn't enough story or budget for it. This feels like a short film that someone decided to stretch out into a full length movie. The creatures are almost never shown and it's mostly just the male character trying to maintain his sanity while putting up with the loud braindead moron he's been saddled with and stumbling around in the dark. This should of been shortened considerably and put the saved funding into a few more creature shots and it might of been a halfway decent film.

This is another very female focused movie. All the female characters are portrayed as 'good'. Most of the male characters are either bad or
scrawny beta types. A lot of DEI casting within the police characters. No surprise one of the few decent male characters is black. This started
out decent enough and was fairly interesting if cliché for the first 30 minutes or so then it all started falling apart. The acting is mostly
ok with the exception of the actress playing the Jordan character. She's all over the place, at the beginning she was fine but the further into
the movie it got the worse her acting seemed to get. There is the issue that while her character is fine at the beginning they suddenly made her
very annoying and stupid so they may be a contributing factor to my not liking her acting. The story as I said is nothing new and pretty cliché, we've seen this type of thing many times before and like most modern horror resorts to cheap jump scares and loud noises instead of any real horror. The fx are ok but this is very typical of modern PG-13 horror. Pretty tame and boring overall and really not worth your time.

I saw nothing woke. I was really looking forward to this and finally got around to watching it. Everything about this movie looks amazing.
The sets, the costumes, the cinematography, the camera work are all incredible. The acting for the most part is also very well done. I think
I think Lilly-Rose Depp is the one weak spot in the movie. Her physical acting is fine, the scenes of her writhing and and having seizers are well
done. However her line delivery is really not very good. She comes off as overacting and fake. Skarsgard as Orlok was also a bit of a letdown for me. I just didn't find him scary or terrifying. I think my biggest problem is this is almost the exact same movie as the 1992 Dracula. However that
film for me is far superior. The entire time I was watching this I just kept picturing the same scenes in Coppola's film as they are virtually the same
film. I know this is a classic story and therefore it will for the most part be unchanged, as it should but than it begs the question of why make it?
I think if you haven't seen Coppola's film you will probably like this more than I did and it is not a bad movie by any means. If nothing else I believe this is still worth a watch for the amazing job that was done with the aesthetics of the film

I watched this a while ago and forgot to write a review so this will be as best as I can remember from memory.
Pretty far removed from the source material. This is another adaptation where they change so much other than the names it's almost
unrecognizable to the originals. Also a lot of changes were made in order to severely water the story down from a solid R rated
story to a more family friendly PG one. None of the actors really looks at all like they do in the books. Season by season break down-

Season 1 woke-2, overall-4
DEI overrepresentation resulting in mixed race couples and love interests. Ellie has been race swapped to a black mom with a white son.
Acting is mostly good and the story and suspense are excellent although as I said major changes to everything for no real reason, even the
order the keys are found and how they find them are completely different. I would say they changed far more than they kept.
The writing is pretty solid but there are some eye rolling moments of characters making dumb decisions and choices especially toward the
end of the season but generally a decent season even with the annoying unnecessary changes.

Season 2 woke-3, overall-2
Gay uncle with mixed race boyfriend mentions he is moving in and having their gay wedding there. Also Brian has been race swapped to black from white in the comics. A new character is introduced and is lesbian. New female black friend with a white bumbling beta father for the younger character. DEI representation is ramped up a notch. Surprisingly these new characters and agenda just seem to disappear pretty fast and appear to only have been there at the beginning for virtue signaling. Unfortunately a step down from season 1. The new villains are just annoying and not very threatening. The writing in general is pretty bad with weird dialog and lot s of instances of characters doing and saying stupid things and just being much more annoying. Every character seems to display the most annoying facial expressions with Bode in particular being just so damn punchable. Everyone refuses to communicate important information with each other for no reason whatsoever other than to artificially create drama and lengthen the show. The mother is crying just talking about her husband
that was murdered less than a year ago then later in the same episode is swooning and making out with a new guy like a teenager. Characters just
vanish for multiple episodes with no real reason then show up again to deliver a story point for 5 minutes than disappear again.
Everything feels completely different in season 2 like they have new writers and showrunners. The writing and acting feel like a cheesy
WB teen show. Such a hugely disappointing season given how promising the 1st was.

Season 3 woke-4 overall-1
Same woke applies to this season with a little extra. An entire episode is dedicated to the gay wedding with the gay characters then leaving for the entire rest of the season with no point at all other to have a gay wedding in the show. It's a big meaningless virtue signal. A secondary character from earlier in the show is suddenly revealed to be gay and his memories inside his head are a long montage of him being oppressed for being gay and how hard it is for him. Another pointless scene from a secondary barely there character as another empty virtue signal. A little worse than season 2 in quality. A lot of the acting is no longer good. This has to be squarely on the showrunners as the same actors were fine
in season 1. Bode is now one of the stupidest most annoying characters ever....SPOILER.....especially after trying to make him the villain. What a joke as one minute he's easily thrown around by a single person yet they still find him threatening? The actor trying to do menacing and evil is laughably bad and just annoying. There is still the weak writing with characters doing stupid things for no reason but I think the writing is even lazier than last season. Clearly established in season 1 the anywhere key can only be used to travel between 2 doors, if there is no door it doesn't work. However this season with the lazy bad writing it now seems to work with only one door as there is a scene of a door opening to the middle of the desert and another one opening to the middle of the woods. Characters still refuse to communicate information to each other and just leave the keys laying about everywhere instead
of securing them like normal people would do.

Utter woke garbage. Lead character is bi and has a pointless random lesbian sex scene in an airport bathroom. The lesbian podcaster
is a completely pointless character that serves no purpose to the script other than to get that DEI point. All the cops are corrupt and
bad. Julia makes a statement that nostalgia is overrated and one of the characters says F the 4th of July. The acting is average at best,
the plot makes no sense and can't decide if it wants to be a sequel or a remake. The kills are lame and unoriginal. All the male characters
are either stupid or bad, while the females are smart and good. The OG characters all look bored and much older than they actually are. Speaking of which the originals had the group as teenagers who partied and made a terrible decision after having an accident with someone crossing the road. Here they seem to be in their late 20's early 30's who are actively in the middle of the road in front of cars just being assholes
and cause an accident that kills someone and they still so the wrong thing. These aren't dumb kids they are adults that know better. Skip
this unnecessary woke garbage and watch the originals instead.



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The character assassination they did with Ray is disgusting and completely against character with who he was in the originals. This entire movie is one big girl power nonsense and they just couldn't have a male be good. The female killer claims she is just a strong empowered woman chasing her destiny. There is literally 1 meaningless throwaway female character death in the entire movie and every single male character is killed. The large muscular men are easily killed with no problem yet the smaller females always manage to fight the killer off and get away.

I'm really not understanding the other 5 point woke scores on here. The only thing I see that could be remotely considered woke is at
the beginning the father states he's between jobs and is taking care of the kid while his wife is still working. I mean this doesn't really
seem to be a role reversal choice so much as an out of work thing. At no point is he shown to be a beta coward or his his wife portrayed as
an alpha super powered feminist type. Please feel free to leave a comment and let me know if I missed something. The positives are good cinematography and atmosphere. The most interesting thing about this was the change of perspective from normal to his while the changes are happening. That was a excellent idea that could of been used to a little better effect. The gore and body FX were also very well done. The acting is mostly good with the only sore spot being the wife. Garner is horribly miscast and her acting is unnatural and out of place. The writing is pretty decent with only a couple of WTF moments. The bad is it's light on scares and resorts more to gore gross out moments than any actual tension or fear. The other big one is it just doesn't feel like a werewolf/wolf man movie. I mean there's no real story, no wolves, no background, no moon. The FX on the 'creatures' don't even look wolf like. It's more of a viral feral mutation thing. I could be wrong but I don't thing wolves are even mentioned once. If you changed the name on this nobody would have any idea this had anything to do with the Wolf Man. For me it was worth a one time watch but not something I would ever go back to.

I didn't notice anything really woke. There's been a CIA female director at the time this was made so I don't see that as woke. This is so
far removed from the book that I don't think comparing it is even worth it. The acting is pretty good but for some reason I just couldn't
buy the actor cast as the main character. I'm not sure what it was, his acting is fine he just didn't seem right in the part. I would say this
is an average movie at best other than the terrible implausible writing. So we have a nervous socially awkward CIA employee whos only job
is in the basement working cryptology and deciphering code. But suddenly he is an expert analyst whos able to put together a complete comprehensive target package on a group of terrorists. How did he know how to accomplish that much less get access to the entire CIA database with out setting off any flags? He spends a short amount of time in crash course training and is shown to be completely inept at pretty much everything other than some skill with IEDs. Than the next minute he's in the field successfully evading a CIA agent trying to stop him and seems to be an explosives and IED expert. He's setting off elaborate timed and remote control traps yet never tells us how he is getting the materials and setting up the traps. There just magically there and go off without a hitch. He seems to be an expert hacker as well and somehow appears to still have full remote access to the entire CIA computer network. He just morphs from inept computer nerd to top tier field operative. The book wasn't perfect and had problems of it's own but at least they had Charlie as an amateur with a lot of luck and help on his side to accomplish his goals. It's not a terrible movie
but it requires some major suspension of disbelief.

The usual small female physically manhandling much larger trained male's in some cases literally throwing them around. This was.....not good. The acting is pretty dismal all around and the story is extremely generic and unoriginal. I'm not sure what's going on with Kate's voice here. It's so deep and raspy and just off but sometimes it suddenly sounds normal. I'm not sure if she's doing a voice or if's been digitally altered but it's noticeably odd. There's not that many action and fight scenes and what's there are poorly choreographed and are dull and boring. For some reason they decided to have her dressed in a black leather trench coat and high heeled boots the entire time. It looks ridiculous and is completely impractical for a CIA agent in the field in an active environment. On the plus side it's always a good laugh watching her awkwardly stumbling around while trying to run those heels. She just looks awkward and unnatural in all the action sequences actually. This suffers the usual lazy bad writing syndrome. For instance she's being chased through a building and easily rolls a carton on a cart with wheels against a swinging door to slow her pursuers and for some reason 2 adult men are unable to simply push the door open against the cart. She decides a stealth rooftop entrance to a building is best achieved by using a giant very loud drone with huge lights all over the underside. An SUV in a head-on collision with another vehicle visibly launching itself into the air before impact.

Anybody that's not familiar with the original source material may not recognize the woke. The Asian female character in the movie
is not from the original and a DEI insert for the movie to check boxes. The opening train and spider sequence is also not from the
original and seems to be added to introduce the DEI character. This new character is pointless and adds nothing to the story. Worse
she actually brings it down. All of her dialog and scenes are unnecessary and can be cut out entirely. All of her dialog is pointing things out or explaining something that doesn't require it. The scenes would be more impactful and effective without her rambling or annoying screeching. The final act has her pulling the mine revelation out of her ass and the ensuing ending with her in the mine is pointless, not in the original and is tacked on to give her something to do and finish the spider part off which never should of been in the first place. Speaking of, the whole train opening with the spider is out of place with the rest of the movie. It's like they wanted to start with a big action scene but that's not what the story is or in line with the rest of the film. The CG is terrible where most of the rest is actually pretty good. With a relatively small budget it's a strange decision to waste a chunk of it on something so pointless
other than to set up something for later for the DEI character. It sounds like I hated this and I really didn't. I actually liked it. The acting is
generally good and the atmosphere, lighting and cinematography are excellent. This not a big budget large scale like the previous Hellboy movie were, and it's not supposed to be. It's a small scale, dark gothic horror story that, outside of the previously stated add-ons is very close to the original material. I probably would of rated it a 3.5 given the distracting DEI character but I decided to round up to a 4. If you are familiar with the original Hellboy comics you will probably like this. If your only exposure is the other movie maybe not so much.