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| A doom-ish landscape invites on this poster for Stuart Beattie's I, Frankenstein |
Frankenstein's monster has survived for more than 200 years up until today, where the scientists around an old man get near to mastering the resurrection technology again, and thus a battle between creatures breaks out.
I, Frankenstein is written and directed by Stuart Beattie (Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010)), adapting the digital-only graphic novel I, Frankenstein Genesis (2013) by Kevin Grevioux (Wetworks Mutations (2010)).
Fantasy fiction as a genre is open to being far out, - but it can also be compelling, if the presented universe is persuasive. I, Frankenstein is regrettably only utterly ridiculous nonsense, and the only thing it has in common with Mary Shelley's 1818 masterpiece Frankenstein is her title character, which it steals without crediting her.
Aaron Eckhart (Midway (2019)) looks resolute in the title part, but that he is supposedly 200+ years old and made of various severed body parts is only revealed through a scar on his face, - which carries through down his pumped up, muscly chest and abdomen... The modern, blond scientist woman (Yvonne Strahovski (The Tomorrow War (2021))) refers to Dr. Frankenstein as if he was a recently passed colleague; while Bill Nighy (Living (2022)) as the film's villain attempts to find new ways of spewing dialog in vicious manners, reminding us of his work in other fantasy films, among them the related Underworld series (2003; 2006; 2009; 2012; 2016), also co-created by Grevioux. Miranda Otto (Downhill (2020)) is a gargoyle queen with attractive male gargoyles Jai Courtney (Jolt (2021)), Chris Pang (Charlie's Angels (2019)) and others, (regrettably none of them take their clothes off.)
The plot also includes blasphemous baloney such as that Satan comes from heaven, and that there is an eternal and holy war between demons and gargoyles.
This is tiring, very dark and self-congratulatory junk, however in short moments amusing junk, and if you are able to switch your brain very thoroughly off, some of the animated, made-for-3D fight scenes are mildly entertaining. But taken as a film, I, Frankenstein is another example of how comics-based offal litters the silver screens.
And, by the way, what city are we in in I, Frankenstein? It is filled with ancient buildings, many of them Gothic, including one enormous, Gothic church? Melbourne, Australia? That's where it was shot :-D
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Watch a trailer for the movie here
Cost: 65 mil. $
Box office: 76.8 mil. $
= Big flop (returned 1.18 times its cost)
[I, Frankenstein premiered 20 January (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and runs 92 minutes. Shooting took place in Argentina and Melbourne, Australia. The film opened #6 to an 8.6 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it grossed 19 mil. $ (24.7 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Russia with 11.3 mil. $ (14.7 %) and China with 7.5 mil. $ (9.8 %). Beattie has not returned as a director since the film; instead he has turned to producing and especially writing. Eckhart returned in My All-American (2015). I, Frankenstein is rotten at 5 % with a 3.40/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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