CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

George Taylor Told from the perspective of Igor, this is just a terrible film which seems they took five different scripts, threw them in a blender and then let a bunch of chimps rearrange them (which may be an insult to the chimps), barely recognizable as a Frankenstein film, it's just an utter waste of time. Only I, Frankenstein is worse than this trash.

Nigel P "I looked into the eyes and there was nothing there!"It would be unpleasant of me to direct this quote from Lorelei (Jessica Brown Findlay) towards James McAvoy's performance as Frankenstein, but it isn't without a certain truth here. As with his turn in 2016's inexplicably acclaimed 'Split', his every movement, intonation, posture, grin and gesticulation never lets us forget he is acting. With sentences instilled with dangerous singularity, McAvoy spits out the words in textbook eccentric, rapid staccato. He is indulged by Paul McGuigan's excellent direction and looks great, but rather like a stage turn projecting to the back rows, there is not one ounce of anything naturalistic about his Victor Frankenstein. Perhaps it is deliberate; the confidence, bravura, enthusiasm, heightened unreality might be traits attributed to Frankenstein - or to these heightened performances in general - but unlike co-star Daniel Radcliffe's Igor (for example, and other characters too), we never *know* him, never like/dislike him, never really care for him, not even when the truth is revealed about his brother (Henry, brother of Victor: two of the most often-used names for Baron Frankenstein over the decades). As with all things, I can only offer my opinion on this.The long-awaited creation scene is spectacular. Occasionally threatening to lose hold of reality, it nevertheless takes advantage of modern filming technology; we can actually travel along the power-lines with the electrodes as they head for the inanimate creature. Whereas the first experiment involved a hellish and extremely effective chimpanzee amalgamation, the eventual human monster is battered and torn by the elements even before (or perhaps during) a time when life has been given him. A clay-like golem, he is a spectacle, but has no time to be anything more. An enhanced, stomping killer hulk that brings the house down.In two pleasing (deliberate or otherwise) nods to past glories, the police inspector Roderick Turpin (Andrew Scott) loses a hand (à la one-armed Inspector Krogh from 1939's 'Son of Frankenstein') and the monster is animated only to wreck the laboratory and bring things to a close of sorts (à la the monster rallies at the end of the 1930/40's Universal run of pictures). Despite my reservations about McAvoy's performance, I enjoyed this a lot. It breathes new life into the pioneering story, which is no mean feat after all these decades, whilst never losing the guiding light of Mary Shelley's original novel.

mrnunleygo Notwithstanding a good cast, this version of the Frankenstein story didn't work for me at all. I'm OK with re-imagining of a novel if something is gained from it, but there really was nothing in this rather sharp deviation that added anything to Mary Shelly"s novel. I will kindly award it a "three" for some nice sets, costumes, and imagery, but the overall story was pretty empty. The final appearance of "the monster" and the efforts to neutralize him were particularly uninspiring. An episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers probably has similar levels of depth and suspense.

Elisabetta Zanella As a famous uncle Bob's record review begun in the late sixties : "What is this s**t?" Since that famous Rolling Stone review this 'incipit' goes to underline something which is really too disappointing to be analyzed fairly. Except for the good artcraft, the beloved actors and the theme which can bear even worse massacrees, all this project is so bad I could not refrain from posting my disapproval. One nonsense for all others: what is the impossible revenant (she falls to certain death from a six floors height in the beginning of the movie) Lorelei lass doing in the last fight scene? How did she get there, when? This flick violates the narrative pact so badly it becomes preposterous to even confess one watched it all. Shame on you Avoys & Radcliffey, for crying out loud!