Wolf Totem (Le Dernier Loup)

An average movie

“To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Jean-Jacques Annaud, I was quite eager to check his last directing effort. First of all, it was rather surprising that, almost 20 years after ‘Seven Years in Tibet’ had been severely criticized and eventually completely banned in China, the guy would eventually make a movie in China which was even financed by the Chinese state. Anyway, after ‘L’ours’ and ‘Two Brothers’, Annaud tried once again to deliver a drama involving some seemingly wild animals which was, at least in ‘L’ours’, such a fascinating process. Unfortunately, even if the scenes involving the wolves were indeed really neat, the rest of the movie turned out to be rather tedious, I’m afraid. I mean, somehow” read more