Loup Garous review

It's not a science fiction movie until there is a robot fight

In  not so distant future people eat synthetic food and live under constant surveilence . In one town in this world a series of murders is happening and one of the students of the school is suspected and information is gathered about them. Hazuki is one of the students in the school and one day she approached by the genius hacker Mio who is interested in what is happening and takes Hazuki along with her. They run into another student the strange and cold Ayumi who knows some valuable details about the mystery.

 

There is a Chinese martial artist in this movie for some reason

Loup Garous is a science fiction horror movie. This movie suffers from several flaws let me start with the cast. First of all the main character Hazuki is lacking in terms of motivation or the ability to affect the ploot in any major way. Ayumi is a cold sociopath who does little except for say that he is a monster and stab the occasional villain. It is from him that we get the title of the film (He refers to himself as a Lou Garou) although except for for short scene which doesn't really explain his character despite the scenes intent, no real explanation is given to him.

 

Occasional head deformation

Also for the leaders of a society that is supposed to present itself as psuedo Orwellion the order seems really week. For example where are these kids parents? You can't portray a convincing panopticon when your protagonists lack the normal supervision that kids there age would have. It may be that the movie is tries to present alienation but that leads us into the other problem with the movies, that it tires to tackle too manuy thmes at once weakening the presentation of any individual theme. With a better focus this movie could have possibily been really insightful as opposed to being faux insightful.

 

Overall this is a meandering messing mess of a movie that I can't really recommend to anybody in good faith.

 

Rating the Tin  soldier (Jin Roh which was not only a much better movie but worked in the wolf imagery in seamlessly something this movie utterly failed to do)