You know, sometimes....

the pretty boy really -should- die, the hot main rebellious girl -should- embrace tradition, and the hot main rebellious girl and the smoking hot protector-of-the-family -should- have extremely steamy make-up sex resulting from their clashing relationship.

Oh wait.

That's what basically happened in the book.

Damn.

I thought this would follow the book just a little bit more. Frankly, her "meat-boy" was very good looking, but Gabriel had the kind of sexiness in which you could see him saying, "I was a bad ass of a man before you were even weaned off your mother's teat, boy."

Yeahhh......

Agreeing with some of the other threads on here as well. Gabriel is very one sided in this movie. As is, I believe, Vivian. She's rebellious. "I don't wanna!" But....why? Because she doesn't like their tradition of killing humans? Maybe she could have, movie-wise, seen the possibilities of being in power and _changing_ those traditions? But instead she just runs. She claims her family (namely Gabriel since he's initiating it) isn't embracing a part of themselves, the part that's human, but isn't she being hypocritical? She just joins the hunt to be free, to run, but that's not why wolves -run-. They run to hunt. And the hunt is, to all OTHER wolf / werewolf folklore and stories, supposed to be enjoyed, even unwillingly (see werewolf stories in which people change, then go berserk with bloodlust, then regret it afterwards - but still it's not like they want to give themselves up either).

I was also left wondering what happens when she tries to mate with Adrian (assuming they don't break up - they knew each other for, oh I dunno, a few weeks? maybe a month or two?)....it's true when this movie, and other sources state both in fact and fiction, that the lone wolf doesn't survive long.

They tried to turn this book into a story of making your own path, changing your future, etc., but all it seems to do is twist what could have been a really good movie (and mind, I don't just say that as a medium fan of the book) into something attempting to combine _Romeo and Juliet_ and every I-hate-who-I-am werewolf story.

Didn't even Adrian say earlier in the movie that the lougaru or whatever viewed their change as an honor, or at least a good thing?

Anyway, good job on the special effects (for their budget, I can understand), good job on getting what seem to be otherwise good / good-looking actors, good job on not making the wolf part look abominable or freaky but just wolves (simple but still beautiful), and good job on the scenery and shooting.

That's my review. Meh.