Red Riding Hood

(2011)

Amanda Seyfried, Gary Oldman, Billy Burke, Shiloh Fernandez, Max Irons, Virginia Madsen, Lukas Haas, Julie Christie

Valerie (Seyfried) is a beautiful young woman who lives in a medieval villiage which is being plagued by a werewolf. If that isnt enough to deal with, she is torn between her childhood love Peter (Fernandez) who is the bad boy every girl falls for and the goody two shoes, Henry (Irons) whom she cannot see herself ever loving. When the wolf kills her sister, it sets the villiage off on a game of whodunnit and like the Crucible creates an air of blame and suspicion. In comes the famous wolf hunter Father Solomon(Oldman) who will do anything (and i mean anything) to avenge the death of his wife, who had been plagued by a werewolf some years ago.

I only really wanted to see this because of Oldman, but i found myself actually quite enjoying it so much more than Catherine Hardwickes previous attempt Twilight (read the books, so much better). It is dark, quite eery at some points and kept me guessing until the end.

Bad points were the stupid use of modern music.....why? it was not needed and just seemed like a silly attempt to make the film cooler. Second bad point is Max Irons, surely with Jeremy Irons before you, there should be more than one expression in your ability.

That said, enjoy it for what it is. The scenery and colours are beautiful.

7/10