Frankenstein

Buy This Item Frankenstein by TriStar Pictures  Available from Amazon  Click 'BUY IT NOW' to get price.  on 11-29-2008     Let's be honest: this should be titled <i>Wretched Excess' Frankenstein</i>. Swooping, wild, bloody, and energetic, this is bad moviemaking from the best, which makes it all the more lovable. Kenneth Branagh plays Victor Frankenstein, a man so obsessed with conquering death that he decides to create life. What he gets, after a protoplasmic mud wrestle, is a Mean Streets monster (Robert De Niro) that isn't particularly happy to be back from the dead or thrilled about all the stitches. Helena Bonham Carter may, at several points in this film, actually be channeling Ramtha. The supporting cast couldn't be peopled with better performers (Tom Hulce, John Cleese, Ian Holm) but they all look like they're ringside at some Ultimate Fighting competition. A must for any midnight movie collector for the shock factor alone. A hoot. <i>--Keith Simanton</i> Reader Reviews If we were to improve on this beast, first we would have to remove the incessant score which permeates every minute of this film. Can we the viewer be left to trust our own emotions without having the score "tell" us how to feel? Secondly, De Niro as the creature is visually good, but we need him to talk less. When he's asking "Do I have a soul, too?" with a slight Jersey accent, it kind of blows it for us. Thirdly, Ken, Cut back on all the camera trickery. I bet you spent good money for all the camera tracks, but we're getting motion sickness with all the circling. I am a big Ken B. fan, but lost a lot of credibility with my friends when this dreck came out. He really hasn't regained his directing abilities since this, and to take a roll in Wild, Wild West hints at desparation.

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