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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
In no way a conventional horror movie, nonetheless, it is, alongside the Coppola `Dracula' and the `Branagh' Frankenstein, supposedly, part of a revisionist trilogy of that traditional staple horror fare.
Directed by Mike Nichols with a script by Wesley Strick and Jim Harrison (of Legends of the Fall fame), Nicholson is at his brilliant best as the jaded lead editor of a publishing house recently acquired by a billionaire asset stripper played in suitably predatory fashion by the excellent Christopher Plummer. He gets the `shot in the arm' needed to fight back against the twin evils of rampant capitalism and cuckolding protégé Spader, who has more than an eye on Nicholson's wife, Nelligan, and his mentor's job, from an 'obliging' wolf when travelling back from a business trip through the frozen wilds of a New England winter.
When asked to visit Plummer, ostensibly to be offered a `sideways' move but, in reality, a lower prestige job, he encounters Plummer's slightly wayward daughter, Pfeiffer, who plays her spoilt little rich girl part to perfection and who, initially at any rate, is only too willing to ally herself to Nicholson as a way of spiting her presumably negligent father.
There are, too, turns by stalwart Brit actors, Prunella Scales and Eileen Atkins and Frazier's David Hyde Pierce. The movie has wit, irony, elegance and a superb and, by turns, lushly romantic and jazzy Ennio Morricone score: all this and some wonderfully amusing moments make for a truly enjoyable experience even if the label `horror' normally turns you off.
Directed by Mike Nichols with a script by Wesley Strick and Jim Harrison (of Legends of the Fall fame), Nicholson is at his brilliant best as the jaded lead editor of a publishing house recently acquired by a billionaire asset stripper played in suitably predatory fashion by the excellent Christopher Plummer. He gets the `shot in the arm' needed to fight back against the twin evils of rampant capitalism and cuckolding protégé Spader, who has more than an eye on Nicholson's wife, Nelligan, and his mentor's job, from an 'obliging' wolf when travelling back from a business trip through the frozen wilds of a New England winter.
When asked to visit Plummer, ostensibly to be offered a `sideways' move but, in reality, a lower prestige job, he encounters Plummer's slightly wayward daughter, Pfeiffer, who plays her spoilt little rich girl part to perfection and who, initially at any rate, is only too willing to ally herself to Nicholson as a way of spiting her presumably negligent father.
There are, too, turns by stalwart Brit actors, Prunella Scales and Eileen Atkins and Frazier's David Hyde Pierce. The movie has wit, irony, elegance and a superb and, by turns, lushly romantic and jazzy Ennio Morricone score: all this and some wonderfully amusing moments make for a truly enjoyable experience even if the label `horror' normally turns you off.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Really, this is just the same old werewolf schtick yet Nicholson and Pfeiffer (ably abetted by others) wring lots of good stuff out of it. The best scenes are those where Nicholson portrays his lupine nature without the aid of make-up but by acting. A film you'll watch more than once.
Mike Nicholl's film about a man being turned into a wolf is simply brilliant in both it's story line and execution. Previously, this genre of film had never attracted my attention with the exception of "A werewolf in London"(Starts well and ends ridiculously) and another one about a vampire who tells a reporter about his life with Tom Cruise as the Vampire(Excellent film).
I will not go into the story as it is well documented by the previous reviewers, other than to say it is so well done that if you let your mind float, it is believable!! What i would like to comment on is the superb musical score that captures the essence of this film by none other than the Spaghetti Western Mystro
"Enrico Morricone", it really is one of his most outstanding.His movie musical talent is nearly on the same level as "John Barry"(Who will ever forget his musical score to the outstanding film "Out of Africa").
In addition, i rate this as one of the best performances by both Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pheiffer, whose film chemistry together is brilliant, while the rest of the cast are also first class.Even Christopher Plummer, who is a very stereotyped actor, gives his best performance.The cinemaphotography is quite superb and i was glued to my seat to the very last minute(The ending was just magnificent).
This film is in my library of great films and even my wife, who is a very incisive film critic, thought the film was well constructed and acted.
I will not go into the story as it is well documented by the previous reviewers, other than to say it is so well done that if you let your mind float, it is believable!! What i would like to comment on is the superb musical score that captures the essence of this film by none other than the Spaghetti Western Mystro
"Enrico Morricone", it really is one of his most outstanding.His movie musical talent is nearly on the same level as "John Barry"(Who will ever forget his musical score to the outstanding film "Out of Africa").
In addition, i rate this as one of the best performances by both Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pheiffer, whose film chemistry together is brilliant, while the rest of the cast are also first class.Even Christopher Plummer, who is a very stereotyped actor, gives his best performance.The cinemaphotography is quite superb and i was glued to my seat to the very last minute(The ending was just magnificent).
This film is in my library of great films and even my wife, who is a very incisive film critic, thought the film was well constructed and acted.
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