philipfoxe

What a mess! There was a metoo issue here which is a worthy topic for examination for sure. Other reviewers have already taken down this film better than I. What really put me off was the opening scene: someone clearly thinks "what are liberal academics like?" Then they show us a bunch of them in a party scene. We are supposed to see that professors are rich and live in massive houses! Their conversations don't even make sense! Each sentence sounds like an excerpt from a dull book. And smoking? Are you serious? Nobody smokes indoors anymore and certainly not liberal academics! Whoever wrote the script really should read a book someday.

I didn't have high hopes for this given Channel Five is pretty low brow cheapo stuff. I wasn't disappointed. I've just finished the first two. Decent cast for sure but they couldn't save this utter dross. At first I thought the scripts were written in a day but I revised this to scripts pulled out of the reject bin. Don't know where to start: just vapid constantly repeated lines and rhetorical guff. Never again.

Could only watch a third of this dreadful mess. Del Toro has decided that Mary Shelley's polemic on the human condition should instead focus on Victor. While Victor's flaws are indeed relevant in the book, and his moral cowardice in taking responsibility for his actions provide the narrative this isn't the focus or point of the book. It is how society deals with the monster it created that is the whole point of the metaphor. The technical details of its construction are irrelevant. There hasn't been a film made that reflects this, perhaps because a great part of the book concerns philosophical issues which are 'entertaining'. Reminded me of Jurassic Park which ignored much of the interesting points made in the book in favour of simplistic monsters. Btw in the book the monster isn't out to kill Victor; but Victor's guilt makes him seek out the monster in the frozen north in order to kill it.