Werewolf: The Beast Among Us Movie Review

Werewolf: The Beast Among Us

                                                                                                

Werewolf: The Beast Among Us is horror thriller movie released in 2012. This movie is written by Michael Tabb, Catherine Cyran and Louis Morneau and directed by Louis Morneau. The main characters of Werewolf: The Beast Among Us are played by Ed Quinn, Guy Wilson, Nia Peeples, Stephen Rea, Rachel DiPillo, Adam Croasdell and Stephen Rea.

In the movie Werewolf: The Beast Among Us, we see a town where a very powerful werewolf in killing people at night. A group of werewolf hunters are hired to kill the werewolf and they find that, this extraordinary beast, disguised as a human, is living among the villagers. To stop it, they only have two days.
  

A Scene from the movie Werewolf: The Beast Among Us

Plot:

At the beginning of Werewolf: The Beast Among Us, we see a werewolf attacking the family of a little boy named Charles. Both of Charles’s parents die trying to save him, but finally Charles kills the werewolf and saves himself. Before dying, his father gives him a locket which was a sign of great werewolf hunters.

Years have passed and Charles has grown up. He is now the leader of a team which is renowned for hunting werewolves. One day, few men come to him asking his help, telling him that a werewolf has killed a lot of people in their village. Charles also finds that, that werewolf is of a special kind, which can hunt for three days in a row. He heads for that village with his team. On the way, they see a cart carrying dead bodies and also meet a zombie who has been infected by werewolf. As their regular procedure, Charles’s team shoots the zombie in its head and then burns the body.

Then we see a teenage boy named Daniel who is living in a nearby village where the werewolf has attacked. He is studying to be a doctor and has an affair with a rich girl. Daniel’s mother runs a hotel cum brothel in that village. Charles’ team reaches Daniel’s village just when a man was asking for the bounty of killing the werewolf to the local police chief, by bluffing the villagers. Charles exposes the bluff and then, by bargaining with the police chief, doubles the bounty announced by the police. Daniel becomes impressed by seeing Charles’s team and offers them his assistance. Charles politely declines. Charles’s team starts to stay at Daniel’s mother’s hotel.

Daniel‘s girlfriend tries to stop Daniel from becoming an werewolf hunter and also offers him to get admitted in a medical college, which Daniel declines. He keeps on working with the village’s doctor. They regularly get patients attacked by the werewolf and kill the ones who have got infected. Meanwhile, Charles takes preparation for hunting and on the next moon, sets a trap in the jungle to catch the werewolf. At the same time, a group of poachers were also after the werewolf. The werewolf leads poachers to Charles’s trap and thus, both of the teams fail to catch it. Charles understands that this werewolf is intelligent and thus, different from other werewolves. Daniel also gets chased and taken by the werewolf. Then the werewolf attacks Daniel’s mother’s hotel and kills some bad people.

Daniel finds a pattern in how this werewolf attacks people and proves to Charles that it only attacks low life. Being impressed, Charles listens to Daniel and together they go to the local gypsy head who gives them idea about how powerful and special this werewolf is. He also tells them that they must catch it in next two days, otherwise, it will be able to transform at its will and will be impossible to stop.

In the meantime, the villagers lose faith into the hunters and try to take matters in their own hands. They identify some persons who don’t have a strong alibi about them when the werewolf attacked last night and suspect them as werewolf. Daniel’s mother, his girlfriend’s father, the gypsy head, the police chief and some other people are kept into the jail for that night to see if any one of them is the werewolf. Charles also sets up another trap with the help of Daniel. They use one of the poachers as bait, as the werewolf is hunting lowlifes.  At the night, the werewolf attacks. This time again, all of Charles’s team’s efforts goes in vain and the werewolf escapes. But surprisingly, the werewolf hurts none of the members of Charles’s team when it has easy chances to kill them.

At the same time in the jail, the police chief feels seek. Becoming frightened, the guards kill all of the people in the jail, except Daniel’s mother who escapes. Then we get to know the human identity of the werewolf. We also see how he/she has become a werewolf and the reason why he/she has this special power. We can also see that an important person in that village is protecting and training the werewolf.

One member of Charles’s team finally finds out who the werewolf is and puts him/her in display in front of the villagers to reveal its true identity. But the werewolf breaks free and goes to hiding. Finally it comes face to face with that member, which also reveals another identity of that companion of Charles.

Can Charles or Daniel kill the werewolf? Can the human identity of the werewolf save the persons he/she love? Let’s watch the movie to find the answers.

A Scene from the movie Werewolf: The Beast Among Us

My review about Werewolf: The Beast Among Us:

First of all, I’ve found Werewolf: The Beast Among Us as a better than average werewolf movie.

The plot seemed nice and interesting. It was not easy to guess who the werewolf was and from time to time, the director has given signals to misguide us in that guessing in Werewolf: The Beast Among Us, and it felt exciting. Finding the werewolf was not the end of the movie. We got that answer long before the movie’s end and a lot of other things happened after that. But overall, the plot of Werewolf: The Beast Among Us is good enough to keep you attached.

The acting and the dialogues in Werewolf: The Beast Among Us were good too. All the actors and actresses have done a good job here.

The makeups and special effects of Werewolf: The Beast Among Us were also good. The werewolf and its transformation effects seemed natural. Specially, the makeup of the werewolf was pretty good, so I wonder why the director has not shown it more on the whole movie.

I found a big plot hole in Werewolf: The Beast Among Us.  When you see the human identity of the werewolf, you can clearly remember that you saw that person being chased by the werewolf. But the whole movie is about only one werewolf, nowhere else it refers any second one. It is hard to accept this type of mistake in a movie like this.

What I didn’t like about Werewolf: The Beast Among Us was the graphic scenes used in it. The director could show less (or indirectly) of them without harming the sense of the movie at all. This movie could do better without them.

Although there is no nude scene in Werewolf: The Beast Among Us, but for the body pieces and other scenes, this movie is not suitable for kids.

So, overall, I liked this movie. I’ll mark this movie as good, although not great. Werewolf: The Beast Among Us is surely worth giving a try.

What do you think about this one? Feel free to comment.

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Wikipedia Link: Werewolf: The Beast Among Us Wiki

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Into the White Movie Review

Into the White

                                              

Into the White is a World War 2 based drama movie released in 2012. This movie was also titled as ‘Comrade’ and ‘Cross of Honour’. This film is written by Ole Meldgaard, Dave Mango and Petter Næss and directed by Petter Næss. Into the White has a very limited set of characters for almost the full movie, which are played by David Kross, Stig Henrik Hoff, Florian Lukas, Rupert Grint and Lachlan Nieboer. This movie is based on true events.

Into the White tells us about a true event when some British and German soldiers had to share a cabin in a rough weather during World War 2 and after staying there for sometime, how their humanity, friendship and brotherhood grows more than the differences between the two teams.

A Scene from the movie Into The White

Plot:

In an aircraft battle at the sky of Norway, a German and a British plane get shot by each other. Both of them have to crash land in a snowy mountain area.  The German plane had four soldiers in it, where one of them dies at the time of crash landing and another of them gets badly hurt in one hand. A heavy storm is approaching, so they search nearby and find an empty wooden cabin. They take shelter in that cottage just before the storm hits.

Soon after that, two surviving British soldiers of the British plane also come to the cottage. The British soldiers have no firearms with them. Considering their situation and the weather outside, the Germans let them come inside the cabin and takes them as prisoners. The German leader gives two beds to two of British soldiers and also marks their place to stay inside. According to the Geneva Convention, the British soldiers demand food and the Germans provide them that. The British soldiers also demand for respect and the German leader finally agrees to that.

From the beginning, none of them behaves in any violent or attacking manner to their opposition soldiers. Both of the teams know that, in such a situation, they need each other’s cooperation to stay alive. Both of the teams have to put the rules of warfare aside and cannot pick an enemy inside the cabin. The British feel sympathy for the wounded German soldier and give tips to the German leader to ease his pain. And also the German soldiers, in spite of holding the British at gunpoint, give them respect. The British soldiers’ target is to make the Germans angry, so that, being furious, they attack the British and make a mistake. But the cool headed German leader never falls on that trap even though the others are provoked.

The storm is running continuously and the soldiers inside the cabin are running out of foods to eat and woods to burn. They start to break the woods inside the cabin to burn. Meanwhile, the condition of the wounded German soldier is getting worse. He is also paranoid by the British. But with time, both of the teams get trust on each other, start to get friendly and the distance between the captors and the prisoners keeps on getting smaller. But at one time, when they take woods from one of the columns of the cabin and the cabin starts to fall, the German leader was trying to hold the cabin and the British leader uses this opportunity to take the gun from him. From that moment, the Germans become the prisoners of the British. He starts to treat the Germans with respect equally of what he has received. But the Germans manage to retrieve their gun and again, make the British prisoners.

A Scene from the movie Into The White

But the weather (the snow storm) was not getting any better and finally both of the teams lose any interest over the guns. They start to live there in a friendly manner. Suddenly they discover a small stock of food and drinks under the cabin’s floor and start enjoying them. They get to know each other better over the drinks. But the wounded German soldier gets gangrene on his wounds. The only way to save him is to cut off his hand. Putting the guns aside, they do it together, but finally, fail to save his life. They bury him outside the cabin.

At last, in one fine day, the storm stops and the sun comes out. They all get ready to go outside and find the nearest way. Meanwhile, in a nearby Norwegian army camp, they send out scout teams to look for the wreckage of the crashed planes. One German and one British soldier goes out together to find ways down from this mountain and meets the Norwegian scout teams. Then the unexpected happens.

A Scene from the movie Into The White

My review about Into the White:

First of all, I liked Into the White very much. And according to my guess, everyone else will.

Although the plot of Into the White is set in World War 2 and is about two groups of conflicting soldiers, but Into the White is not, at all, a typical war movie with the fighting, the shootings and the killings, like the movie The Flowers of War. It tells the story of survival, cooperation, brotherhood and humanity.

The plot of Into the White is very good and innovative, although it will not seem that innovative when you know it is based on true events. But in a beautiful movie like this, I was expecting a happy ending, which didn’t happen. At the very end, Into the White gives you more facts from the real events after the end of this particular plot, which feels very interesting and will leave you wanting for more.

The director and the screenwriter have done a beautiful job here in Into the White. The location, the screenplay and the dialogues match perfectly with the plot. The psychology of the soldiers inside the cabin seemed very realistic. Another important point about Into the White is, even though it is a Hollywood movie, it does not portraits the Germans as ‘evils’, which I’ve found as a rare case. The effects of the storm and the set inside the cabin was very good.

The acting of all the characters felt natural and flawless. Although, I think, the best acting in Into the White was performed by the German leader, but the character of Rupert Grint was the most amusing of all. Even in a serious movie like this, the dialogues of his character will make you laugh. This famous kid actor has also done an awesome job of acting here as a soldier. But as I’ve said, the acting of all others in Into the White were also impressive. The dialogues are very well chosen and the makeups were good  too.

Into the White is completely safe to watch with kids.

After you’ve finished watching Into the White  you should look for the facts about it in wiki (the link is given below) which is obviously worthy a look.

We can also see some stunning scenic views in Into the White near the end of the movie.

So, overall, Into the White was a beautiful movie and I really enjoyed my time watching this one. I’ll definitely recommend Into the White to all movie lovers as a must see.

How did you like Into the White? Feel free to comment.

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IMDB link: Into the White IMDB

Wikipedia Link: Into the White Wiki

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A Beginner’s Guide to Endings Movie Review

A Beginner’s Guide to Endings

                                                                           

A Beginner’s Guide to Endings is comedy drama movie released in 2010. This movie is written and directed by Jonathan Sobol and produced by Nicolas Tabarrok and John Kozma. The major roles of A Beginner’s Guide to Endings are played by Scott Caan, J.K. Simmons, Harvey Keitel, Paulo Costanzo, Jason Jones and Tricia Helfer.

A Beginner’s Guide to Endings tells the story of five brothers, who, after their father's death, find out that three of them are going to die very soon. Then they try to make the last few days of their life meaningful.

A scene from the movie The Beginners Guide to Ending

Plot:

A Beginner’s Guide to Endings starts with a man telling us about his life and then he tries to commit suicide but fails. He takes another attempt and meanwhile, introduces us with his children, five boys. The eldest one is a boxer, who couldn’t manage a successful career for himself. The second one is a playboy. The third son is so far the most successful one, smart and organized. We don’t get to know much about the forth one, but he is trying to be a boxer like his eldest brother. The last one is an Asian and still a kid. The old man says that 5 of his sons are from 3 of his wives. He regrets for the life he lived and says he has failed as a father. Because of being frustrated for this, he seeks to end his life.

Then we see his sons have gathered for his funeral. But as he has jumped off the Niagara Falls and his body has not been found, so the funeral is going on without his dead body. At the funeral, his sons start fighting with each other for silly reasons.

After the funeral, his sons and the priest visit a local club. The priest was a very good friend of the old man and also of his sons. The priest reads his will. The man has left some small things for each of his sons and has also left his house to them. Then there is another letter which states, when his first 3 sons were little, in exchange for a huge amount of money, he has used them in a drug experiment. As a result, soon the 3 of them will die.

The 3 brothers become frustrated. The third son sees a doctor, who also says that he is going to die soon. When they get sure about it, they start to correct the mistakes they have done all their life.

The eldest one, the boxer, goes to the nearby gym, where he has set a fight for the fourth brother. Seeing the opponent in practice, he realizes that his brother is no fit for his opponent. Feeling the danger for his brother of getting killed, he tries to avoid the fight but the fixer demands $20,000 for cancelling the game. He then starts to seek the money.

The second brother, the playboy, feels that he needs to settle down with someone. Opposing everyone else’s opinion, he heads for his high school crush, who seems as a pretty dangerous lady to marry. He spends some times with that lady and at one point, she puts him face to face with her boyfriend, who had cases against him for assaulting people. The outlaw boyfriend tries to kill him, but also says, he will get the girl if the brother can defeat him.

The third brother, the smart one, living a controlled life till now, starts to seek for adventure. Putting on a costume of Elvis Presley, he quits his job, talks with the girl which he always has hesitated and slaps his manager. He maintains a list of things to do before he dies. The last thing of his list is to get inside a barrel and then jump off the Niagara Falls, which he attempts.

Meanwhile, the eldest brother, failing to get the $20000, decides to fight the boxing match himself instead to his young brother, to save his brother’s life. But from the priest, he learns why he can’t fight and why the same fate has happened to him in every match he has fought. He also learns that, even after living a reckless life, how much their father loved them.

The last part of the movie is about the three brothers’ dangerous attempts and about the last days of their life, or is it?

My review about A Beginner’s Guide to Endings:

First of all, I didn’t like A Beginner’s Guide to Endings much.

The plot of A Beginner’s Guide to Endings is not bad, but its predictable. If you have watched enough movies, you will know what will happen at the end, in one way or another. The ending felt too dramatic for me. And also, A Beginner’s Guide to Endings had the probation to include much more comedy and suspense elements in this movie, but the director didn’t do it. It could make this movie much better.

The acting and the dialogues are goods. The casting also felt good. But, the character development of A Beginner’s Guide to Endings is very bad. Usually I don’t write much about character developments, but in  A Beginner’s Guide to Endings, I specially felt it being very poor.

Although this is a comedy movie, but the comedy elements were also very poor, and I didn’t find any scene at all which could make us laugh. But still, the whole A Beginner’s Guide to Endings doesn’t go maintaining a pure serious tone. To me, this movie is oddly stuck somewhere between being funny and being serious.

There is no nude scene in A Beginner’s Guide to Endings but it has some regular ‘bad words’. I feel its safe to watch it with kids.

So, finally, I didn’t enjoy A Beginner’s Guide to Endings. Although its not that kind of movie that will make you feel your time got wasted, but to me, its not something to love. I won’t recommend watching A Beginner’s Guide to Endings to other movie lovers.

Do you share the same views with me about A Beginner’s Guide to Endings or the opposite? Let me know your comments.

For those who are interested:

Wikipedia link: A Beginner’s Guide to Endings wiki 

IMDB link: A Beginner’s Guide to Endings IMDB

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