Better Late Then Never

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

This is an unexpectedly good 2007 B movie with an involving if not always logical story and decent balanced effects. Plus there is an exotic location - Bucharest a city that seldom features in movies. It involves werewolves and the romance between a female werewolf and a human.Watching this for the first time in 2015 on DVD it makes an interesting comparison to the Twilight movies which came later. Liked that the wolves were not so big like in the Twilight movies. As the female werewolf Agnes Bruckner is a good watchable actress who deserves good roles. Hugh Dancy is a bit slender for a romantic lead as the human - no R Patz for sure but he's okay with her. Olivier Martinez as the leader of the pack looks the part but it's hard to understand his accent sometimes.Overall worth one watch.

It was great movie.I watched both the movie and read the book.I think a perfect film in every way.I would recommend everyone to watch....The film: Werewolves sprayed everywhere. But someone does not harm them in Bucharest and hunt as they wish.Vivian is very beautiful and attractive a girl.Vivian and Aiden love each other.But Vivian Gabriel forced to marry.Because Gabriel is president werewolves.After that Aiden killed to Gabriel son's and Aiden caught.Aiden is caught before the silver knives because werewolves were killed to silver materials....After that Aiden's finger the cut and hunting begin.If Aiden is passing the river, get rid of Aiden but he is not passing the river eat to him. And Aiden passed the river but a werewolf attacked him.But Aiden killed to ıt.Then Vivian comes to him but Aiden did not understand to be his lover and attacked him and Vivian injured.Then Vivian and Aiden escape from there and Aiden saves her lover.

Way to make wolves seem terrifying and potentially murderous, y'all.This movie is interesting, in its own way--if by interesting you mean 'tremendously bloody and unnecessarily perverted.'The main character, Vivian, is a sulky, broody, somewhat rebellious twenty-something whose guilt over her parents' death hangs like a cloud.She falls for Aiden, a decent, good-ole-boy running from an assault charge in the states and perhaps his own dorkiness--he writes comics.Anybody who calls themselves a "graphic artist" in defense against accusations of being a comic-book writer is well aware he is a dork.Meanwhile Gabriel, Vivian's other potential love interest, is a jerk.He's not just a jerk in the teenager, he-never-called-me-back style.Rather, he is a cold-blooded killer who has instituted a habit of killing a human being at random judged unworthy of life by himself.This is his idea of pack bonding.In this version of the story 'Blood and Chocolate', Gabriel is also Vivian's uncle, which just adds a terrifyingly 'ick' factor to it all.As if mercilessly hunting down humans in the forest wasn't 'ick' enuf.This story is kind of entertainingly interesting in its own way. The 'girl/boy breaks away from old community by breaking its rules, falls in love with the wrong guy/girl, and thus learns to forge their own way in life' is an oldie but a goodie. The werewolf thing's a twist.The problem is that this movie has nothing to do with the original novel except the names. In that far BETTER story, Viviane's mother had escaped the fire with her, and no member of the pack blamed her for her father's death. She lived in the U.S., not Romania. She went to school with Aiden, and she met him there. The entire pack had lived with child!Vivian and her parents before the fire, and they lived together still.They were not the only werewolf pack in the world, which made more sense as Werewolf legends seem to exist everywhere these days.Vivian was seventeen, and her mother was pushing her to commit to Gabriel because he was the new leader of the pack; there was no talk of some "mysterious" prophecy, which is an always groan-worthy insertion.The book is more a story of coming to terms with one's relationship with one's community, and accepting every sacrifice that must be made to maintain the natural order within that relationship...The film is more a story of accepting oneself at the cost of one's family.Gabriel in the novel is a cigar-smoking, motorcycle-riding, consonant-dropping hunk, five years older than Vivian at most but totally hot.Vivian is meant to feel somewhat afraid of his sexual prowess and his total ease with himself and his rebellious, leather-clad attitude.She is also meant to feel drawn to Aiden's more laid-back self. She also chooses to reveal what she is to him, and he freaks out.The important difference between book and movie--the most important one, anyway--is that in the book, killing humans is against pack code.While the book is a live-and-let-live treatise, the movie is a for-god-sakes-fear-the-outsider, chances-are-s/he-does-want-you-dead masterpiece. It is a masterpiece of FEAR-MONGERING, but oh well.Can't have everything I guess, but was a smart script too much to want?In fact, Rafe and Astrid, who is not his mother but rather his consort, wind up dead at Gabriel's hands because they murder a girl.They also set Vivian up for the murder...anyway, the plot is tight.The plot is also twisty, at times difficult to follow and a mystery on top of everything else. The book is in fact incredibly intelligent.I wish the same could be said for the movie.

Blood and Chocolate is set in Bucharest in Romania where nineteen year old Werewolf Vivian (Agnes Bruckner) lives with her aunt Astrid (Katja Riemann) who is also a Werewolf after fleeing Colorado in America ten years previously. A whole society of Werewolves live in Bucharest, the leader Gabriel (Oliver Martinez) has devised laws by which the Werewolf society must abide by, one such rule is that Gabriel must remarry every seven years & Vivian is next in line. However while out in Buchrest an American comic book artist named Aiden (Hugh Dancy) falls for her & ask's her out, Vivian eventually accepts & the two quickly fall in love. Gabriel gets wind of the relationship & orders his son Rafe (Bryan Dick) to scare Aiden off but in a fight Aiden kills Rafe with a silver amulet. Out for revenge Gabriel wants both Aiden & Vivian dead, working together to save their own lives Aiden & Vivian must try to find a way out of the city...This American, British, German & Romanian co-production was directed by Katja von Garnier & was based on the novel of the same name by Annette Curtis Klause which I have not read so I cannot directly compare the two but by all accounts the book is significantly different, to me this soft teen romantic drama fantasy was trying to be the new Twilight saga but with Werewolves instead of Vampires & it's just an all round weak effort. The script for Blood and Chocolate is flawed, for a start at almost an hour & forty minutes long it feels like it goes on forever & is just plain boring. The whole concept about a secret society of Werewolves living in Bucharest is alright but they are given no background whatsoever, how they escaped from Colorado to Bucharest, the laws that they live under are never gone into in any great detail & they are all very vague, the prophecy that says Gabriel has to marry every seven years is never given any reasoning & there's absolutely no purpose to it that I could see, the script doesn't quite know what it wants to be as it goes from supernatural fantasy to horror or teen drama to romantic love story without ever really satisfying or delivering as any of them. Bucharest seems almost deserted, apart from Vivian's love interest Aiden there are no other human character's at all & so it was hard for me to relate to anything I was seeing, the mythology of the Werewolf world that Blood and Chocolate tries to create leads to some very stiff dialogue scenes that are supposed to be dramatic & meaningful but they have no narrative impact & come across as ridiculous & surreal.I suspect that Blood and Chocolate was conceived as a teen friendly romantic fantasy horror but as a love story it's predictable (a mismatched couple's love for one another sees them through a bad situation), as a fantasy it's poor (when the Werewolves change they change in a bright flash of light into just a normal Wolf, for me I like my killer Werewolves to actually look like fearsome monsters rather than a rather tame looking Wolf) & because it's aimed at a teen audience there is no horror here & everything is very tame with no blood or gore & at the end Vivian & Aiden take time out to save three of the bad Werewolves from burning to death. Surprisingly short on special effects the ones present are OK but nothing great, the transformation scenes really do look silly despite the makers obviously trying to film them to look elegant. To be honest it's never really explained why the Werewolves actually need to change into Wolves, while still in human form they seem to have great strength & agility (lost of scenes of people hopping around & trying to look cool but coming off as looking silly) yet while as a Wolf they seem to have no great ability whatsoever & are obviously a lot more vulnerable.Released theatrically during January 2007 this was a box-office disaster taking in only just over two million dollars, actually filmed in Bucharest in Romania the film looks quite nice with fairly attractive Earthy looking colours throughout. The acting is poor, Agnes Bruckner looks bored, the two main villains look like they belong in boy bands & I suspect most of the actor's were cast due to their looks rather than their acting ability.Blood and Chocolate is a reasonably nice looking film with some striking locations but the horror is so diluted, the romance is so flat & sterile while the film as a whole is so predictable that I couldn't recommend it as I didn't think much of it myself. Trying to cash in on the success of the Twilight saga Blood and Chocolate is a poor relation in all respects.