Review of Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2011) by Marc W — 15 Mar 2012

Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2011).

The Story:

Well, where to begin with DD:DofN. Dylan Dog, played by Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) is a quirky, off-beat comic adaption about a Private Investigator for paranormal affairs and activities involving the deceased. Throughout the course of the film, Dog encounters a bevy of your typical hollywood silver-screen monsters: vampires, werewolves, zombies, ghosts, all your typical stuff that Van Helsing should probably be taking care of. Anyways, the story revolves around an ancient artifact that the leader of the Corpus Vampire House (Taye Diggs) is trying to obtain so that he can receive the ultimate powers of the Blood Gods or something like that. Dylan's mishaps find him intermingling with the underworld of zombies, fighting off the dead and bloodsucking vampires with blessed brass-knuckles, wood-tipped bullets and all kinds of weapons made of silver.

SFX:

The special effects were just mediocre, nothing extravagant. for the most part DD wreaked of high levels of cheesy flub special effects. like what was with the giant, tattoo zombie!? he looked just about as bad as Nemesis from Resident Evil: Apocalypse!! dont expect anything truly awesome to come out of Dylan Dog, it seems to solely thrive on a made for T.V. threshold budget for the special effects.

Final Thoughts:

Dylan Dog may have very well been one of those comic books that should have just stayed a comic book. (I have heard The Spirit is the same way). Especially after all of the over kill with vamps, zombies and werewolves in movies and shows nowadays. Dylan Dog just seemed like it was cashing in on the whole undead craze with very minimal effort. Brandon Routh's acting was on and off. At times it seemed like he was really into it, then other times it seemed like he hardly cared about what he said at all as long as it would wrap up the scene. The comedy was about the only real thing that carried the movie through. It just ultimately felt like a huge mash-up of Blade, Constantine, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Daybreakers and Underworld. With a dash of some Van Helsing to top it off (like that wasn't bad enough already!!?) Sadly not even the campy dialog and aura saved Dylan Dog. So without cold bashing this movie to death and beyond, It can be fairly stated that Dylan Dog: Dead of Night is better off Dead.