Movie Review

Blood and Chocolate (2007)

Reviewed by Scott Brown | Jan 31, 2007

Scott Brown

Scott Brown writes the Hit List for EW and is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio -- he has the tote bag to prove it

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EW's GRADE

C+

Details Release Date: Jan 26, 2007; Rated: PG-13; Length: 98 Minutes; Genre: Horror; With: Agnes Bruckner and Hugh Dancy

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WOLF TRAP Olivier Martinez gets his turn to dance with werewolves in Blood and Chocolate, but we've been down this dark Goth road one too many times before to get fired up about it

The war between werewolves and humans — not to mention the one between Prague location scouts and Bucharest location scouts — has claimed many victims, among them the potency of the metaphor. Werewolves are tame with overuse, and movies like Blood and Chocolate — where moments of inspiration vie in vain with Goth cliché — play like underlit Charmed reruns. Agnes Bruckner is the toothsome Juliet to Hugh Dancy's human Romeo, but only Brothers of the Head's Bryan Dick, as a prodigal wolf boy, seems truly lupine.

Originally posted Jan 31, 2007 Published in issue #920 Feb 09, 2007 Order article reprints

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