"Blood and Chocolate" * (out of four): If "from the creators of Underworld" doesn't sell you on this charmless werewolf hokum, nothing in the film will either.

Any werewolf movie needs to deal with that pesky issue of transformation. Vampire movies have it easy; a set of fangs here, a widow’s peak there and you’re done. But how exactly does a human being change into a wolf ? Or at least something similar to a wolf (as films like “Van Helsing” have started to use the term very loosely). The unfortunately-named “Blood and Chocolate” attempts to do for werewolves what Anne Rice did for vampires. But make no mistake about it, for all its high-minded talk of prophecies and “chosen ones”, this is just your average (very average, in fact) werewolf movie.

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