I should say right now that Im a sucker for these kind of movies.
There is everything I mentioned above and more.
Lightning, proclamations about the power of God, and even a flattop make an appearance.
They even included his Christian name to be sure.
And it is on Victor Frankensteins shoulders where much of what goes right about this experiment rests.
Despite ostensibly being told (and marketed) from Igors perspective, this is James McAvoys movie.
And he owns that fact with every mad shout of egomaniacal self-congratulation.
If only the rest of the movie had as much fun as this good doctor.
In truth,Victor Frankensteinis barely about the iconic Monster himself.
The Creature in his most pure form doesnt even show up until the third act.
Its frantic indecisiveness of tone does make for a hardly fully formed experiment.
But for the first two acts, it mostly succeeds as a wildly bizarre case of genre ADD.
With all the blandness that implies.
Nevertheless, for a certain bang out of fan there is something to enjoy here.
Rating:
2.5 out of 5
