(Spoiler Alert! - sorry, I had too many rants not to have a couple of spoilers in this one)
You may be wondering why I even bothered going to this.
Right now I'm wondering the same thing.
I usually don't put much stock in what the critics say about a movie, I just go to see it myself, then make a judgment. While I am not really a Shelly fan in general, I have seen various inventions of this tale in film version, and I was curious about this one. As much as I hate to admit it, this time the critics were right. Should the trailer have given me a clue? Yeah. But, call me a glutton for punishment, I thought it'd be fun to see a reinventing of the tale.
Except that it wasn't a reinventing. It was an epilogue . . . a very long epilogue . . . a very dumb epilogue.
The premise is that Frankenstein's monster is immortal and has been rescued by this group of gargoyles who are the guardians of humans against demons. Yeah . . . fun. I thought it might be like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter in terms of an interesting twist. It wasn't. Even with Miranda Otto and Bill Nighy, it was a slow movie. There were several times that I wondered how much longer it would be. I also thought that if I saw another shot of the monster's boots stomping, I would leave. There were several fun action sequences, but the ending flew by and the middle dragged - not to mention that my two favorite characters died in the middle. The CG gargoyles were okay, but when you finally see Miranda Otto's character become a gargoyle, it was an inferior version than the rest. Bill Nighy makes a good villain, but he could only do so much with a bad script. Eckhart really tried to put a new spin on the monster (rechristened "Adam") but one the shift from swift, flexible killing machine in one scene to stomping brute the next was a bit crazy.
Overall, if you want to have a laugh with friends, see it in a dollar theater. Otherwise, just don't bother.
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