Frankenstein2025

I love Guillermo del Toro. He has such a great style, and I always like his films. I feel like anything that is holding this movie back must be due to the fact that a successful Frankenstein adaptation is very difficult to make. Is there an adaptation of that story that everyone agrees is the best or most faithful? I know Frankenstein(’s monster) as a shuffling, grunting behemoth, but I know that is not an accurate depiction. This movie displays the creature as intelligent and human. I can tell that there are things that have been cut from the story. Perhaps to make the characters more sympathetic. I think that the Frankenstein story really just isn’t for me. It is incredibly tragic with little payoff, and while the movie looks really good, it doesn’t quite move me. The performances are great, and I don’t have any real complaints, so it really must come down to the source material.  I think that del Toro has better films about sympathetic monsters already in his catalogue, so I’ll probably rewatch all those before I watch this again.