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  Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★★★ 6

  It was about damn time someone recognized the French countryside for what it is, a mecca of martial arts.

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  Review by Gregory⛧Joseph ★★★½ 3

  PREY SLAUGHTERED

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  Review by Dylan van Frankfoort ★★★★½ 8

  Half the time Gans is out there shooting this thing like he's Mann making The Last of the Mohicans, then this dude fucking match cuts from Monica Bellucci's breasts to snowy mountains—it's bonkers. And how about the fact that this is a lavish period piece-cum-creature feature, with martial arts, and motherfucking Mark Dacascos martial arts at that—choreographed by the action coordinator on Hard Boiled(!)—with Dacascos doing kip-ups and flipping his hair back like Shawn Michaels before swashknuckling guys, all set against a pseudo-historical backdrop that'd make Cage cream? I can't believe this is real.

  I love this shit.

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  Review by Obistrike ★★★★½ 1

  Bonjour!

  An extremely strong, well mixed, and heady Gallic genre concoction. Part period drama, part murder mystery combined with martial arts peasants, exploding pumpkins, furry fish, bad poetry and oh so much, much more. If you have yet to taste this eclectic and pleasurable brew, then order yours today. The only downside being the headache you will likely get from trying to compose a decent letterboxd review afterwards!

  Christophe Gans has created a genuine curiosity, a chic Frankenstein's monster that continually surprises in its efforts to, well, surprise. Criticisms could be levied at its indulgent camera work, overuse of slow-motion, dodgy dubbing, lengthy running time and occasionally suspect 'special' effects. Au contraire, these are minor quibbles which I find add…

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  Review by Tony the Terror 666 ★★★★★ 11

  Back when this first came out on dvd here in the states which must have been 2004ish…or at least that’s when I first saw it…I was in college round 1 studying health and fitness and this is one of the movies that always reminded me of how much of an outsider I really was. By day, I went to school and took classes, played tennis, was on the swim team, even taught fitness classes, pretty well known all over…but then at the end of the day I’d go home and binge on movies like this and Italian horror, cult films, etc because I literally didn’t know anyone else who was interested and frankly I was a little afraid for people…

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  Review by More_Badass ★★★★ 1

  Any movie that starts as period creature-horror, only for an ass-kicking Mark Dacascos to show up mere minutes later, and then proceeds to become a romance-drama martial-arts-action historical-political-thriller that includes a goddamn bone-blade chain-sword, deserves at least four stars.

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  Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★★½

  Cinematic Time Capsule
  2001 Marathon - Film #22

  ”Our people would not be afraid of a simple wolf,
  the beast is different”

  In what can only be described as an attempt to set the world’s record for the most genres in a single film, this highly stylized French monster horror sci-fi mystery romantic martial arts swashbuckling fantasy period costume-drama and religious political conspiracy adventure thriller has be admired for it’s lion-hearted ambition.

  ”I learned that sometimes one bullet doesn't suffice”

  
  Cinematic Time Capsule - 2001 Ranked

  We’re Werewolves not Swear-wolves

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  Review by 20oldboy03 ★★★★ 10

  Horroroktober die Siebte (7/2)

  Feat. DuBFaL-Horrorweeks 2021

  
  Man wird mich ein Lügner, ein Scharlatan, ein Fantast und ein Irrer nennen. Mich denunzieren ich wäre ein Spinner, ein Spinner der nicht alle Tassen im Schrank hat. Doch ich war Zeuge, der letzte lebende Zeuge der es sah – ein Wunder sah.

  Ein Wunder wie es alle Dekade nur einmal stattfindet. Ein Wunder wie der einsame, sich behauptende Fels umringt des tosenden und sich auf ihn stürzenden Meeres. Ein Wunder, und ich nahm daran teil. Wurde eins mit dem Wunder. Half ihm sich empor zu steigen, sich auszudehnen, wahr zu werden.

  Das Wunder begann in den Anfängen der 2000er in Frankreich. Einem Filmschaffendes Land in ihrer Renaissance die in den 90ern neue…

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  Review by Maddy Flowers Sheehy ★★★½ 5

  fear the old blood

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  Review by Boy Roarbison [fka Nag Champion] ★★★ 2

  As schizophrenic as they come. It's nearly 2 and half hours long, and straddles the line between martial arts/period piece/creature feature/buddy flick. At times the directing is beautiful and makes excellent use of the color pallette and diverse locations. At others it is immensely annoying, with slow-mo action sequences and obnoxious camera tricks that were all the rage in the early 2000's. But there are positives to take away from this glorious mess of a film. Some solid, if not terrific, performances abound. Vincent Cassel does what he does best-- act dastardly. Within 10 minutes of him being on screen, you're a fool if it doesn't register "Yep, he's the villain!". But hey, if it ain't broke don't fix it.…

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  Review by comrade_yui ★★★ 7

  no idea what the fuck this is, some da vinci code meets last of the mohicans bullshit with brownface mark dacascos doing spin-kicks in the middle of the french countryside. way too long but also i'd watch like another hour? i don't know, french cinema is weird

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★ 6

  ENCOURAGED BY Marcos

  A supernatural action/thriller set in 17th Century, it follows a duo comprised by a skillful Native American (or French?) fighter and a doctor who get themselves into a world of corruption as they try to defeat a wolf-demon-thing killing and bringing fear upon a town in France.

  So this is one of those movies you only realize it exists because Letterboxd, and my LB buddy Marcos Luna review was enticing enough to give it a look. And you know what? For what it is and its going for, the whole period drama blended with much modern gears and techniques of editing that often reminded me to Zack Snyder and Guy Ritchie, it all comes together pretty good…