Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Brotherhood Of The Wolf has a lot to offer cinema lovers in the way of entertainment, but I digress this is a very cerebral film as well. There is excellent cinematography and atmosphere,suspense and intrigue, intense eroticism, mystery, terror and superb action and martial arts fight choreography. The performances are superb with a lead that resembles HHH, European love goddess Monica Bellucci and the much underrated B action star Mark Dacascos (who shines in the support role in this). Brotherhood Of The Wolf blends genres quite successfully in this period action hybrid film and is a very unique and well made film that is very visceral, but also will thrill the more intellectual, thinking viewers as well. Director Christopher Gans did a very good job putting this all together and this is a very original movie that should please fans of action, horror, suspense, as well as appeal to the art-house crowd as well. Overall, Brotherhood Of The Wolf is a very impressive film.

"Brotherhood of the Wolf" is a slickly made film--with a large budget and lots of gorgeous costumes and camera-work. It discusses a strange and relatively unknown bit of mythology of the period--about a supposed monster that killed a lot of folks in Gévaudan, France. It seems that while some folks did die, what, exactly killed them is not 100% certain--though it was most likely the work of wolves. Here, a cryptozoological approach to the killings is entertained--that there is some fanciful creature (like a Bigfoot or Loch Ness Monster) killing people. Now this sort of fantasy story is not a bad thing--but how it's all handled irritated me in so many ways. While superficially the film appeared to be from this era (circa 1764), so much of it is hogwash--anachronistic crap that teenagers might think is cool but which have absolutely no place in a period piece. Here are a few examples: Martial arts fights like you might see in Japan or China, crazy special effects, witches and lots of gratuitous nudity. It seems more like a video game's version of history than history! While I don't normally do this, I found the film so annoyingly self-aware and slick that I got tired of it very quickly and eventually turned the thing off--right after the cliché about the wisdom of native religions and the evilness of Christianity was introduced. Give me a break. Dumb and a bit offensive--just what I want in a movie! Not!By the way, this film reminded me in some ways of the recent film "Sleepy Hollow" which also was very anachronistic, slick and vacuous.

Really, where are the aliens? Aliens are the only ones missing from the movie. Almost everything else is present.This is a failure to copy the Hollywood action movie style. But from a french director. Why not stick to the original story and let out all the commercial crap while focusing on making something original? Because it had everything needed for this including a more than decent budget. More than this, I think the director wanted to make like 3 movies and in the end decided to put them together and voila: Le Pacte des Loups, a 2 hours and a half movie full of ... everything, martial arts, sex, ninja, wolves, history, fiction, mystery, drama tragedy and aliens. Ah, sorry, no aliens. As a conclusion, the movie is not that bad, I am just intrigued about how they destroyed the movie adding so much stupid and unnecessary things in it when they had the means to create something good or at least worth to watch for an adult.

I first watched "Brotherhood of the Wolf" several years ago (it came out in 2001, after all)... back then, dramas with good action scenes were a dime a dozen. However, nowadays, action movies seem to lack directors who know what they are doing... which makes these older movies seem all the more better.The story of "Brotherhood of the Wolf" is very compelling, being set in a French province in 1764 and the few years after-wards. I won't say any more of the story, since I don't want to spoil it at all (this should be my first non-spoilers review).This is mostly a drama, but the action scenes serve both to advance the plot, and to give depth to the characters... from the first one, within the first few minutes, which introduces some of the main characters.What makes this one of my faves, however, is all of the parts combine to produce both an entertaining experience, and a work of art. The pace, narration (which is sparse), characters, actors, directing, post-production editing, and soundtrack all combine so seamlessly that you hardly notice the time passing by.Well, anyhow, go watch it... 10/10, perfect score by me. In fact, I think I'll go watch it one more time.