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.



Warning spoilers follow...




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.

Early on in the movie Barry's daughter says her wife left her. It seems to be a short 1 minute scene pointless virtue signal and I thought
ok well only a 1 woke score. The movie went on in an amusing little comedy with some wonderful Ireland scenery. It's silly fun and nothing
really laugh out loud but it was entertaining enough with good performances from the 2 leads. Then at about the 1 hour mark a ridiculous 5ft obese female police officer shows up. Again a very short scene and nothing too bad. Ok we have about 10 minutes of film left and I'm thinking ok 1 woke and maybe a 3 score. Worth a one time watch and it's humorous enough. Then out of nowhere Barry's lesbian daughter comes to Ireland and we get a ridiculous slow motion gazing instant love scene with Ciaran's ex-wife who by the way has never been mentioned to be a lesbian! This goes straight into a finale lesbian wedding presided over by aforementioned obese female officer! Are you kidding me!!?? WTF did I just waste 100 minutes of my time on only to be woke slapped in the last 10 minutes. Don't bother and if you must turn it off early to avoid the agenda. I'm giving it a much higher score because of tacked on B.S.

The only woke really is the opening scene showing a black female with her black daughter talking about her deceased husband who is shown
in a photo to be a white male. Pushing the mixed race quota again. It's a small scene but it needs to be pointed out. I went in to this hoping for a shlocky low budget entertaining action horror movie. I got everything but the entertaining part. The acting is all over the place but not terrible and the story is bare bones with some sketchy writing but that's kind of to be expected for this type of movie. Like one of the previous reviews said it really felt like someone ripped off the Purge movies but with werewolves. How is is it everyone knew this would happen again and had an entire year to get ready for it yet seemingly everyone was so horribly prepared. The practical FX are decent and the CG is pretty low end. I just found it all so boring and that's not what you want for this type of movie. There werewolves weren't very effective, they look exactly like what they are, actors in cumbersome bulky suits. They are all so slow and awkward looking it just killed any kind of fun the movie could of had.

Nothing really too woke other than the now common in everything mixed race couple. The acting is ok but Davidson just isn't that good
of an actor. The FX are great, the writing is mostly good though there are a few instances of WTF was that. The first half hour or so is very slow and boring and I was tempted to give up but it does pick up considerably and I finished to the end. I kept feeling like I've seen
this premise before but I'm not sure. Lots of gore and body horror but there is a little too much random only for shock value scenes. There are
no real scares to be found but it is a fairly solid movie worth a one time watch. The only other annoying thing is throughout the entire film there
are background tv's with the weather on talking about a major hurricane going up the coast and how unusual it is and blaming it on climate change. It serves no purpose to the movie, other than 1 short scene at the end where it's crazy storming for about 30 seconds then it's completely calm again. It's very odd and out of place not to mention unrealistic and only seems to exist to push the climate change hoax. While that doesn't count toward the woke score it is a political agenda.

Far far too much black representation for a show set in Dublin with 1.5-2 percent black population. Outside that the acting is all over
the place some pretty good but a few are awful. I only made it through the first episode but by the end of it I had no interest in continuing.
This is the usual family involved in some sort of crime business fighting within themselves as well as other crime families. All the clichés are present with nothing original. It's very slow and plodding. The biggest thing for me was the terrible camera work. Weird angles and camera framing mixed with extreme close ups on faces with blurred backgrounds. The scenes with the family gathering inside the house feels like a member of the crew was just walking around with their cell phone taking video and the director said screw it we'll just use that footage. It's possible it gets better but with the first episode that boring and unengaging it's a hard sell to keep going.