Dylan Dog: Dead of Night

Brandon Routh is a man desperate to play a comic book character and yet it doesn't seem to be a role suited for him. In between the disappointing Superman Returns in 2006 and his poorly written role as 'The Atom' on T.V., he played Dylan Dog in the 2011 film Dylan Dog: Dead of Night a horror/comedy that fails to provide either scares or laughs.

Dylan Dog is a private investigator in New Orleans, where monsters hide in plain sight just trying to get along like everyone else, and he used to specialize paranormal cases but has since given it up. However, after a couple of people are murdered, one of them being his friend Marcus (played by Sam Huntington), he gets breaks out his old gear and goes searching for the killer. He soon finds his friend who is now a zombie, and Dylan wants to find out why the undead are suddenly on a killing spree.   Along the way he encounters werewolves, vampires, and zombies. Admittedly, I'm not super-familiar with the 'Dylan Dog' comics, but I get the sense that there are probably some cool ideas in the comics that they just failed to execute in the movie.

Now, not every film that is panned by critics is poorly acted or stupid, and not every box-office flop is terrible... in this case the film is all of those. The writing feels lazy, the action scenes are sub-par, Sam Huntington as the comic-relief sidekick is just awful, and the monsters look lousy.

Overall, this isn't one I recommend. 
 I give it a 1 out of 5.


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