I am a huge fan of Sergio Bonelli comics and this film was a pleasant surprise. Whereas the setting and the plot of the film is ... well... Americanised, it does still manage to capture some of the feel of the original comic books. Which is a good thing. If Europeans weren't so bent on everything being 100% accurate, maybe we would have more of these films and more people would familiarise themselves with Italian and French comics.Cons: It has no plot to speak of, it fails to transfer 80% of Dylan Dog's character, it's in the wrong city, in the wrong country, on the wrong continent and lacks some major characters.Pros: It's on the right planet! The main character is there :P And it's fun! You will actually laugh out loud. Partially because some bits are funny and partially because the plot is so silly, but you will laugh. Which is always a plus in a horror film. It does manage to capture 20% of Dylan Dog's character which is more than any other film made on European comic book heroes. Big plus for that! It doesn't take itself too seriously and is a great way to pass the time while waiting for Supernatural season 11. It has the right atmosphere. I was very impressed with that. It feels like a film based on a comic book and that's very important to me. The acting is actually decent and on occasion even good! Brandon Routh looks hot in his one Dylan Dog suit he has. What more do you want? In short, I think anyone who likes comic books in general and is a fan of films and series like Interview with the Vampire, Supernatural and such should like this film. If you are a fan of original comics, try and watch this with an open mind (repeat after me: limited budget, must be commercial a bit). If you've never read the original comics, you'll just enjoy it and maybe you'll even grab a comic book after you've seen the film. So it's all good.

Dylan Dog comes out of a self imposed semi-retirement to solve a series of deaths that will cause a riff between the living and the undead.Without drawing comparisons to the excellent atmospheric Dellamorte Dellamore (1994) or the comics, Dylan Dog is an interesting monster mash-up in which Kevin Munroe offers some technically impressive effects as Dylan goes from one well dressed location and set to the next. Brandon Routh looks the part and is the archetype hero and does well with Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer's comedy script with it's Columbo-like twists. However, if Blade Runner (1982) has taught us anything it is that voice overs used inappropriately just take you out of the moment. While Donnelly and Oppenheimer try to make it work to give a noir feel it never works to the extent it should as the on screen atmosphere never matches Routh's soothing voice leaving it somewhat redundant. Routh is comfortable in the well staged action scenes, notable is Dylan's zombie sidekick Marcus played by Sam Huntington who generates most of the genuine funny absurdity. Taye Diggs and the great Peter Stormare are among the solid supporting cast.Although it never executes the required dark cutting humour successfully Munroe and the writers deliver some good cross sub-genre characters, body-parts and action setups but considering the budget it still is in the vein of an extended episode of Grimm, Sleepy Hollow or True Blood to name a few.Dylan Dog: Dead of Night is not bad, and it would be good to see Routh in the role again but it is not Dylan Dog. It's an entertaining crowd pleaser.

In the late-80s, I had read good comments (in Fangoria, Comics Scene, Starlog, etc.) about the Italian comic Dylan Dog, but I couldn't read it until the mid-90s, thanks to the North American editions of Dark Horse...and it honestly didn't impress me very much. The combination of horror and humor was moderately likable, but the "paranormal investigator" premise had already become a cliché because of the TV series The X-Files, Millennium and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, not to mention the multiple literary characters belonging to that sub-genre (the comic Hellblazer, the short stories about Harry D'Amour written by Clive Barker, the saga of The Dresden Files, etc.). And already in that time, there was the rumor of a cinematographic adaptation possibly starred by Rupert Everett, on whom artist Tiziano Sclavi was inspired for the Dylan Dog image. The production lasted for more than 10 years in order to materialize itself, until the film Dylan Dog: Dead of Night was finally made. Unfortunately, the result ended up being truly deplorable.The screenplay of Dylan Dog: Dead of Night is a bad pastiche of scenes we have already seen in Underworld, Constantine, Lord of Illusions, Blade, Night Watch and the uncountable TV series which have continued the tradition of The X-Files (such as Special Unit 2 and Fringe). And even leaving that aside, the screenplay of Dylan Dog: Dead of Night feels very boring and unnecessarily confusing.Brandon Routh completely lacks of any credibility, charisma or presence in the leading role, while Anita Briem is genuinely horrible as the femme fatale. Dylan Dog: Dead of Night also fails as an adaptation of the comic, and its visual style looks ugly and "cheap".In other words, Dylan Dog: Dead of Night is atrocious as a supernatural "neo-noir", as a horror film, and as an adaptation of the comic. Don't make the same mistake I did, and avoid wasting your time and your money in this horrible experience.

Superman returns after a string of cameos as a comic book detective who hunts and looks after various creatures of the night.Dog is the primary word here....Routh is quite a good actor, but with this nonsense, it's really hard to accept him other than ham, and the support is also bad too.Actors like Stormare, Diggs and even Huntingdon are wasted with the material and the cheese they lay over the film.Imagine a really camp Constantine mixed with Underworld and Sin City, and you've got this hash of a movie.The editing is poor and the narration is all about the place. I've never read the source material, but from what i've read, this doesn't touch it.There are a couple of good scenes, the mart for zombies, and the self help group is a good inclusion, but it doesn't deter the film from being what it is.A bad egg, from what could have been a camp, fun, movie.