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  • Complete Monster: Colonel Peter Alexander Miller is the jovial head of a shady government plot, who discovered the existence of werewolves and aims to create super soldiers of them. When his soldier, Donald Butler, turns himself into a werewolf, Miller has him shot and put in cryogenics, before ordering a witness to be killed. Resurfacing decades later, Miller takes control of another project to create synthetic skin from a metal substance, using Butler as a guinea pig; when Butler awakes with his mind a mess, Miller drives him to further psychological trauma. The end result was to create a werewolf with metallic skin, that would be the perfect obedient soldier for Miller. When Butler transforms into a ravenous, unstoppable monster, Miller shrugs off the deaths he causes and tries to personally kill the witnesses; shooting out General Hammond's knees and leaving him to be mauled, even cracking a joke about it when confronted.
  • Ending Fatigue: One of the things many reviewers agree about is that it takes way too long (almost a whole hour out of 1 hour 32 minutes running time) for the titular monster plot (a bulletproof werewolf) to actually get going.
  • Les Yay: Anna and Debbie's office banter make them seen more as lovers than work colleagues.
  • Nightmare Fuel / Nightmare Retardant: The Metalbeast suit gets a mixed reaction from folks. The face, size, and creepy eyes are often regarded as scary. The weird "eight-pack abs", wide gut, and huge biceps? Not so much.

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