Blood and Chocolate, The Wolf Version of Romeo and Juliet

We don't talk about Agnes Bruckner enough. Of course, we don't talk about Warren Harding enough, either.  Ms. Bruckner is prettier, so we will talk about her today. Many people are under the false impression that 2008's "Vacancy 2" was her magnum opus. Nope. In actuality, 2007's "Blood and Chocolate" (directed by Katja von Garnier) is her magnum opus.  Our feature today is William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" with werewolves!  Hey, why not?  If our old bard friend had utilized werewolves and monsters more, this would be a Shakespeare blog!

A clan of werewolves rule Bucharest!  Kind of like our country. Gabriel (Olivier Martinez) is a hunk and king of the werewolves.  Pretty teenager Vivian (Bruckner) is chosen to be his new wife to breed with. See, every seven years, the king gets to select a new wife.  Nice!  Vivian does not want to be werewolf queen, not even for seven years.  Instead she falls in love with a handsome graphic novelist, Aiden (Hugh Dancy). He writes about...wolves! The two fall in love and her "people" find out. Now Gabriel needs to get rid of Aiden so he can have pretty Agnes as his queen.  The clan changes into wolves and hunt as a pack.  Usually they hunt drug pushers and assorted deviants.  

Now Gabriel fixes it so Aiden will be gotten rid of.  Surprise!  See, Aiden has a bit of Van Helsing in him and is uniquely qualified to kill werewolves...which he does.  Now Gabriel ratchets up the urgency to murder Vivian's love.  Soon, Vivian must choose between her people and the human.  Aiden is kind of cute so naturally she chooses him.  Of course, Gabriel and all the werewolf people cannot allow Vivian's decision to stand.  Like any woman told to change her mind by a male dominated society, she goes psycho and rebels.  What happens next is beautiful, if not corny.

With a bigger budget could the makers of this film have introduced vampires in the plot and ended the film with a nice catfight between Ms. Bruckner and Kate Beckinsale?  Does a creator of wolf graphic novels have the earning potential that he needs to keep a dame like Agnes Bruckner happy? Later in life, if Aiden were to interrupt Vivian while she is going on and on about nothing important, would she turn into a wolf and tear him apart?  This is a good one and Miss Bruckner is very pleasing to the camera.  For some hokey fun, see "Blood and Chocolate."