![]() ![]() ![]() Production companies: New Form, Vanishing AngleĬast: Jim Cummings, Riki Lindhome, Robert Forster, Chloe East, Jimmy Tatro But first, she’ll need to stand by her man long enough for him to catch this killer in his own circuitous way. Lindhome, so often a supporting player, would be great in that film’s lead. Julia, you start to think, might secretly be the hero of a more coherent movie unspooling in the theater next door - one about working under men who, however decent they may be, can’t rise to the challenges they face and never realize how much they rely on you. John falls off the wagon and becomes a little hard to take, as his stupor further confuses the film’s tone and creates a speed bump for its plot. The movie has something of a meta-revelation about its genre when, well into research about the women this wolf attacks and increasingly worried for his sexually active teenager, John looks at Julia and wonders, “Huh, do you think women have had to face this kind of danger forever?” A blank stare is the kindest possible response.Īs its predecessor did, Wolf piles pressures and abuse upon its protagonist’s shoulders that sometimes stretch credulity one wonders if Cummings, like mid-career Mel Gibson, enjoys suffering onscreen a bit too much. Cutting between police business and the crimes, the film shows us the werewolf starting pretty early on it also suggests the beast is an anonymous drug addict who spends his days getting high in a small RV. While John struggles to manage the team, Julia calmly starts adding up clues.Īnd more clues pile on, as a new body is found every night of this full-moon cycle. They’re more sad, especially when viewed through the eyes of John’s sympathetic, much more professional fellow officer Julia Robson ( Riki Lindhome). Though they command one’s attention, Cummings’ tightly-wound freakouts aren’t as twitchily comic as those of Thunder Road‘s Officer Arnaud. When forensic experts say the body was attacked by a giant animal, and a fellow cop suggests werewolves, John can hardly contain his rage. Her body is mutilated and there are no suspects, sending townspeople into panicked talk about a serial killer. Juggling those office politics gets immensely harder when a tourist is brutally murdered.
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