This isn't Dylan Dog. I've read the comics since I was a kid. This is nothing like the comics. For all that don't already know. Dylan Dog is like a Sherlock Holmes for the supernatural. He always wears the same clothes, he plays the clarinet, lives in London ( not New Orleans ), his assistant looks like Groucho Marx not a zombie, he is a reformed alcoholic and has many many fears and phobias. One of the most notable is claustrophobia, which is ignored by the makers of this movie, as they shot a scene where Dylan is sealed into a crypt with his zombie assistant. He stays cool as ice while the zombie guy freaks out. Thank you, writers and producers, for making him the most uninteresting person in the world. For those, who know the comic and like it, please don't watch the movie. Its not Dylan Dog. It doesn't come even close.
And the movie, if we suppose the title would be John Smith: Dead of Night, is as bad as it gets. New Orleans is apparently littered with zombies, werewolves and vampires. You just have to look closer. Zombies are everywhere. They work in fast food joints, the morgue, walk the streets at night, have zombie support groups...Vampires make their money peddling their own blood as a party drug. And werewolves supply the city with meat. Makes sense. On the whole this movie is only slightly better than the Uwe Boll stuff. The plot is not worth mentioning. The acting? Don't know, really. The zombie assistant did yell a lot. And Routh or whatshisname speaks with the same tone of voice during the entire movie. Doesn't matter where he is and what he is doing. The girl's accent seemed to change for about three times during the whole movie. Even the special effects are horrible. The vampires and werewolves look about the same. The latter just have more hair. Peter Stromare is a good actor and is convincing as an alpha male of the werewolf family. Sadly his part in the movie is small. Taye Diggs is unconvincing as the head of the 'trueblood' vampire family. His portrayal of the bad guy in the movie is useless. I don't know how much of that is his fault because the script is so weak. Most of the action sequences feature Dog fighting vampires or werewolves. Its your basic shootout and fistfight routine. The zombies are there for the laughs. You might get a few at the beginning but all the clichés and Huntington antics combined with a loud high-pitched voice get annoying as the movie progresses. I would have probably left the movie before the ending if the plot would not promise me the reincarnation of Belial, the demon. I was curious to see this beast. Boy, was I wrong. It was a spectacle. They failed spectacularly. It looked like it was made out of plastic. Was there a budget issue? Did they run out of money so they thought they'd save some by using cheap but crappy special effects?
So much potential and such a screw up. The name Dylan Dog is in the title just to get a few dollars more out of the comic fans. I can't think of any other reason. This one makes Constantine and Keanu Reeves look brilliant.
And the movie, if we suppose the title would be John Smith: Dead of Night, is as bad as it gets. New Orleans is apparently littered with zombies, werewolves and vampires. You just have to look closer. Zombies are everywhere. They work in fast food joints, the morgue, walk the streets at night, have zombie support groups...Vampires make their money peddling their own blood as a party drug. And werewolves supply the city with meat. Makes sense. On the whole this movie is only slightly better than the Uwe Boll stuff. The plot is not worth mentioning. The acting? Don't know, really. The zombie assistant did yell a lot. And Routh or whatshisname speaks with the same tone of voice during the entire movie. Doesn't matter where he is and what he is doing. The girl's accent seemed to change for about three times during the whole movie. Even the special effects are horrible. The vampires and werewolves look about the same. The latter just have more hair. Peter Stromare is a good actor and is convincing as an alpha male of the werewolf family. Sadly his part in the movie is small. Taye Diggs is unconvincing as the head of the 'trueblood' vampire family. His portrayal of the bad guy in the movie is useless. I don't know how much of that is his fault because the script is so weak. Most of the action sequences feature Dog fighting vampires or werewolves. Its your basic shootout and fistfight routine. The zombies are there for the laughs. You might get a few at the beginning but all the clichés and Huntington antics combined with a loud high-pitched voice get annoying as the movie progresses. I would have probably left the movie before the ending if the plot would not promise me the reincarnation of Belial, the demon. I was curious to see this beast. Boy, was I wrong. It was a spectacle. They failed spectacularly. It looked like it was made out of plastic. Was there a budget issue? Did they run out of money so they thought they'd save some by using cheap but crappy special effects?
So much potential and such a screw up. The name Dylan Dog is in the title just to get a few dollars more out of the comic fans. I can't think of any other reason. This one makes Constantine and Keanu Reeves look brilliant.