Review by guest writer Stephanie Stephens. Check out her bio below.

Blood and Chocolate is your typical love story. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy finds out girl is really a werewolf and must now come to blows with her entire pack. Okay, maybe itís not so typical.

  The story revolves around Vivian (Agnes Bruckner), a girl that has been living with her Aunt Astrid (Katja Riemann) in Romania for most of her life due to a tragic circumstance that occurred when she was still just a child living in the United States, leaving her an orphan Every seven years the leader of the loup-garoux, or werewolves, must pick a new mate and Vivian is next on the list. Until she meets and falls in love with Aiden, played by Hugh Dancy, a nice American guy that just so happens to be working on a graphic novel about werewolves. However, they can never truly be together, especially in the eyes of the pack led by Gabriel (Olivier Martinez).

  While the acting is believable, the special effects in this film were severely lacking. This came as a big surprise to me seeing as how it is from the producers of Underworld which is almost overflowing with special effects. Many of the scenes surrounding ěthe fiveî, a group of rebellious boys led by Gabrielís son Rafe (Bryan Dick), involve a lot of jumping from building to building a they chase around humans to have a little fun. However, instead of actually showing the action of the jump occur, the film instead shows a shadow flying overhead, or a blurry object that you canít really make out. Also, in most werewolf movies, there is the pivotal scene where the audience finally sees the humans morph into wolves, but unfortunately for this movie, itís just not portrayed as fantastically as the films predecessors. Overall, the storyline, when taken in context and not comparing it to the book was an okay plot and the acting was believable for the most part. But I still canít bring myself to rate it any higher than a 2.5 out of 5.

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