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This was an OK drama but it was far too long and a bit on thr soppy side. The acting was decent but the story really dragged too many times. At least 30.minutes should have been trimmed from the run time.

There are good moments but not enough of them. It is worth a watch but be prepared to be bored quite a bit if the time.

I was really looking forward to this but in the end I was disappointed by it. Why? Overblown and overlong by at least 30.minutes. Some of the deviations from the original story were just ridiculous such as giving Victor a prosthetic leg, making Elizabeth into a 17th century trouser chasing strumpet and making the monster into Superman. Talking of the monster, no, it didn't work did it? He looked like a member of Duran Duran that hadn't quite got his Halloween make up right.

The acting was OK but Mia Goth was miscast as Elizabeth and Christoph Waltz was just thrown into the.mix for gravitas. The movie did look good, I will give it that but in general this was a director who got carried away with a subject he loved in the same way that Peter Jackson did with 'King Kong'. I award it 5 5 but can't give a half mark so give it a generous 6.

I can only assume that the high marks on here are from relatives of people involved in this movie. Harsh? Not really as this really isn't very good at all. Patsy Kensit is supposed to be an 19th century mother but has a face from the future and by and large the acting is bad. Julian Glover and the girl who played Kitty fare the best but the guy who plays the brother, yikes he is absolutely awful, sorry mate.

The whole approach of this has a very amateur dramatic feel to it and despite a nice setting it fails on almost every level.