Not sure what this review is doing in the middle of an Oscar story but Tara Ariano is slaying it over Grantland, here.
So, from what I can gather, I, Frankenstein starts out with
the story you probably already know: Dr. Victor Frankenstein constructs a
human out of corpses (Aaron Eckhart!), brings it to life, and rejects
it, whereupon the monster kills Dr. F’s wife, and a race around the
world — with the creator in dogged pursuit of his creation — ensues.
Here’s where the people behind the movie thought, “Mary Shelley’s
seminal horror novel is pretty good, but we can improve it!”
What happens then is that the creature gets attacked by demons, saved by
gargoyles, brought in for an audience with the gargoyle queen. Cut to:
the creature spending centuries fighting demons as a free agent, until …
well, I won’t spoil it. Just kidding! A movie with a 4 percent fresh
rating on Rotten Tomatoes probably can’t be spoiled."
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