Synopsis
Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
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Cast
- James McAvoyVictor Frankenstein
- Daniel RadcliffeIgor
- Jessica Brown FindlayLorelei
- Andrew ScottInspector Turpin
- Freddie FoxFinnegan
- Charles DanceFrankenstein
- Daniel MaysBarnaby
- Callum TurnerAlistair
- Bronson WebbRafferty
- Spencer WildingNathaniel / Prometheus 2
Recommendations
- 60
Screen Daily
This Grand Guignol riot of rotting animal and Godless creations is great fun. However, of the cast, it is only McAvoy, walking the line between madman and genius, who fully manages to hold his own against the spectacle with which he shares the screen. - 42
Portland Oregonian
The best and creepiest sequence involves a sort of beta test, during which a patchwork chimplike creature is brought to life and rampages about. - 40
Variety
This reimagining features some fun production design and a performance of undiluted bug-eyed flamboyance from James McAvoy as the titular pale student of unhallowed arts, but its reservoirs of energy and ingenuity run dry long before the finale, leaving the film to lumber to its half-hearted conclusion. - 38
RogerEbert.com
Victor Frankenstein is, despite bravura performances from committed young leads Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy, all kinds of obnoxious and pointless. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
McAvoy and Radcliffe are actors with charm to burn, but it’s only in brief moments that their characterizations cut through the film’s pandemonium, while the jokes they’re called upon to deliver land with a thud. - 30
TheWrap
Whether or not one should tamper in God’s domain remains a matter of opinion, but Victor Frankenstein provides evidence that mere mortals should not mess with what Ms. Shelley hath wrought. - 25
The Playlist
Deformed from the start, it confirms the very thing argued by its narrative – namely, the folly of unwarranted resurrections. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
A bleak, tedious enterprise, shot in earth tones and Gothic gray and blue.
