This movie was so disappointing that I even forgot to write a review for it.
Let's see, of what I can remember, it was dull, boring and silly in a lot of ways.
The whole concept of Aaron Eckhart's character was that he's so ugly because he's stitched up with body parts from different corpses; and yet we get the very good looking Eckhart.
And the rest of the movie felt like a mish-mash of other crappy movies. With vampires versus werewolves already done to death, this movie decided to bring in gargoyles. But the transitioning of the modern look to capes and leather, Yvonne Strahovski working in a laboratory to Miranda Otto sitting on a throne, it all felt too jarring. And Eckhart's outfit of a trench coat with a hoodie and gloves, trying to be that bridge for the two worlds, was laughable.
That slow motion of Eckhart jumping off a car and punching a flying gargoyle in slow motion, or any scene in slow motion, was so bad that it became funny. And finally, the last scene with Eckhart on top of a building declaring, "I, Frankenstein," gave me goose bumps of the worst kind.
I'm surprised that Eckhart chose to do this movie. For someone as capable an actor as he is, it's scary to think that this is the only movie that he was offered last year. I mean, this was Two-Face in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy!
Bill Nighy was probably the best part about this movie, and he didn't even had much to do.
The only thing that I really liked about the movie was its first 5 minutes, where we saw the ending to the original Frankenstein's Monster storyline. I thought that was a nice touch.
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