Last night I went over to the table where my Never Ending Stack of DVDs lies jumbled together, and I picked a random one without looking too closely on exactly which it was. It ended up being “The Brotherhood of the Wolf”, a movie I bought solely because of Terje’s recommendation and the dirt cheap price over on cdon.com.

The story was quite interesting, and the language somewhat refreshing. I can’t even remember the last time I watched a French movie. Set sometime during the (I presume once again without googling the fact) 18th century, a great beast of unknown origin starts ravaging the local community somewhere in France. For some reason it only attacks small children and women, and those who survive claim that the beast is the devil incarnate, not a mere wolf as the local authority claims.

As you probably have figured out, this movie deals with the mystery of said beast, which turns out to be a broader conspiracy then anyone could have imagined. That was at least the movie makers intention, all though I thought the plot wasn’t as incredible as it might have been. I kinda got it long before it was all revealed, and that spoiled the film for me a bit.

I can, however, see why Terje liked this movie so much. It’s got cool, matrix like action sequences, religious problems and political maneuvering that were interesting to watch, but I did not enjoy them all too much. In fact, I didn’t enjoy the movie as a whole either. True, it did contain a lot of cool stuff. True, It was nicely directed and had a satisfying content. True, this didn’t do it for me. I got kinda bored.

This may have something to do with me having no energy left after having spent it all on a one day and a half period with no time for relaxation. I was very beat when I came home from work yesterday. If this affected the experience of the movie, then I should probably watch it again sometime and gain a fairer perspective on it, but for now this is how I feel. Final verdict: 7/10.