Besides Will's personal changes going on, it seems the publishing house he works for is going through some drastic restructuring and there is a good chance that he will soon be without a job, and his two assistants, Mary (Eileen Atkins) and Roy (David Hyde Pierce) are willing to leave with him. But things are worse than he realizes when not only does his protege, Stewart (James Spader), end up being his replacement (after a lot of backstabbing, it appears), but Will also learns that Stewart has also been sharing a bed with his wife, Charlotte (Kate Nelligan).
It's actually learning this last tidbit that gets Will into wondering what exactly is going on since he learns of this by smelling the younger man's scent all over his wife's clothing and then going to Stewart's place only to find Charlotte there, barely dressed.
After separating from his wife, Will starts to fall for his boss' daughter, Laura Alden (Michelle Pfeiffer), and at first, Laura's interest in Will is only because of her dad's misgivings about the man (in other words, it will get him mad), but as the two start to spend time together, Will's animal magnetism starts to get the better of her. Too bad she always wakes up in an empty bed, and he keeps waking up in the middle of parks and zoos with blood all over himself.
Jack Nicholson really holds up the movie all on his own. While Pfeiffer does a fair job playing opposite him, the real focus of the movie is all about Will learning about his powers and how well Nicholson plays out the transformations that get worse and worse each night they get closer to the full moon. But besides that, the only other interesting aspect of the film is Will's relationship to Stewart and how the pair's power struggle keeps going back and forth as they keep trying to jockey for the same position and get the other person removed from the company.
I will say I was somewhat disappointed by the lack of special features, but I was able to somewhat forgive that since it is meant to be packaged with Blu-ray copies of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula, but what was even more disappointing was the quality of the upgrade. The film was made in 1994; that means it was made in film, not digital. Because of this, the people behind getting the movie transferred to Blu-ray should have been able to scan the film in at the newer, higher resolution. Instead, it looks like they just upscaled the DVD version and, as a result, a lot of the graininess became much more apparent.
Wolf clocks in at just over 2 hours, and by itself it is an okay, but slow movie. It really is only worth the purchase if you pick it up in the three pack for this upcoming Halloween season and shouldn't be bought on its own. With the quality of the upgrade and the lack of special features, it just isn't worth it.
