Review of Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) by Joey N — 30 May 2009

If you've ever watched Iron Chef America, the first thing you will notice is how its titular Chairman is not only in this movie, but is speaking French while playing a Native American (Iroquois, more specifically) who is capable of performing kung-fu wire-fighting and seeing, to some degree, the future.

All that said, this movie doesn't just settle for all these things. It also adds sex, violence, a wolf in sheeps clothing (I kid, its actually a lion in wolf's clothing?), and Monica Bellucci, who is amazingly hot and will forever be so.

Even though I saw the director's cut which I thought ran a bit long, the movie kept me intrigued the entire time even with the constant subtitles. Vincent Cassel was one of the only other recognizable faces for me, and he was also one of the more interesting presences onscreen.

The underlying plot and twists were a little slow in arriving, and I'm sure most people were somewhat put off by the absence of onscreen time of the monster in the film with a sudden overabundance of presence with sub-par CGI, but I didn't feel like this ever did too much to detract from the film.

The plot twist however did somewhat destroy the personal movement of the plot for several characters, most notably Samuel Le Bihan's Fronsac and Ã?milie Dequenne's Marianne.