This is yet another movie I missed the first time out that I finally got to see online just now. Jack Nicholson encounters a wolf on the road on the way home when his car hits it. He stops to look at the animal laying down when he gets bitten by it. That should tell you where that's going to. Anyway, he's an editor-in-chief at a publishing house where his job is in jeopardy because of it being bought by Christopher Plummer. James Spader is Nicholson's protégé, Michelle Pfeiffer is Plummer's daughter who takes a shine to Jack. And Richard Jenkins is the police detective investigating the killings that happen. Nothing more to say except this was quite a measured take on the horror film as helmed by Mike Nichols who usually did comedies and dramas. No surprise makeup artist Rick Baker was involved considering his previous work on An American Werewolf in London. By the way, here it's referred to as a "demon wolf". Great music score by Ennio Morricone. Nothing more to say except I thoroughly enjoyed Wolf. P.S. Look for David Hyde Pierce, Allison Janney, and David Schwimmer in small roles.

Wolf had every chance to be a great movie. It certainly had the talent and a potentially great story line. Will Randall (Jack Nicholson) is an aging Editor for a publishing company who loses his job and his wife to a creepy co-worker Stewart (James Spader). Bitten by a Ware Wolf, Will gets smarter, has more hair and starts to go out at night and kill things. Unfortunately, when Will finds out about his wife and Stewart, he confronts them and bites Stewart. So now he will eventually have to have a Wolf fight with Stewart which he does. He meets Laura Alden (Michelle Pfeifer), his boss's daughter and we know where that's going. There are some really silly wolf scenes with Jack jumping around and sniffing the air with a set of wolf fangs in his mouth. The wolf that bit him and his pack are all mechanical dolls and are just terrible. I watched it to the end but only because Jack is in it.

This film tells the story of Will Randall (Jack Nicholson), a New York publisher with a dying marriage and a job at risk of disappearing. His life changes when he is accidentally bitten by a wolf and begins to feel that he has acquired abilities such as a very good hearing. He will put this to use in order to save his job and defeat his rival, the ambitious Stewart Swinton (James Spader). OK... the script, described like that, looks like a B movie, although the movie does everything it can to avoid that category. There is a romantic subplot between Randall and the boss's daughter, Laura (Michelle Pfeiffer), and another subplot where a crime happens, but it goes almost unnoticed and is never well developed, just a hook for the end.Jack Nicholson does an OK work, using well his physical resemblance to a werewolf, but his transformation is common and special effects are so basic that even my grandmother would do better. Spader was very good and managed to make his character the typical corporate opportunist, who rises by sc...wing his colleagues. We all know someone like that and we usually despise that person, and that helps to make Spade's character truly worthy of our hatred. Pfeiffer is an pretty face on an accessory subplot and her scenes are stretched unnecessarily. In fact, film loses a lot of time with that when a proper development of the crime story could have been more interesting.The film is enjoyable, makes a good essay about the corporate jungle and the struggle for survival in modern city, with obvious parallels between human savagery and wild animal predators. But if we think about it, it's extraordinarily predictable and too long for the kind of movie it is.

Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan and Christopher Plummer star in this 1994 horror film. Nicholson (The Shining) plays Will Randall, an editor who soon gets bit by a werewolf. After his senses improve, he learns he's inherited the mark of the beast. Pfeiffer (The Witches of Eastwick) plays Laura Alden, a young woman he not only finds romance with, but turns out to be the daughter of his boss, Raymond (Plummer). Spader (Pretty in Pink) plays Will's co-worker, Stuart Swinton who competes with him for a higher position and Nelligan (Dracula) plays Will's wife, Charlotte who has an affair with Stuart. I've always liked this film and think it's underrated. Jack and Michelle are great in this and have good chemistry, Ennio Morricone's score is great as usual as well as Rick Baker's make-up effects. I recommend this.