So… classing it up in a goofy storyline, Aaron Eckhart plays the Frankenstein monster in the so-very-serious action/sf flick I, Frankenstein. A movie that tries real hard… tries to be good, tries to be some kind of amalgam of Underworld and Resident Evil, tries to be very serious. And, you know, for a movie about Frankenstein’s monster in the modern world, trapped in a war between angelic gargoyles and demons from hell, the movie could have been a lot worse. Yeah, it could have actually been a GOOD movie… but if there’s any chance you’d see something like this, it’s not a bad time at the movies… for the kind of junk popcorn flick that it is.

The story structure and such seems abbreviated and rushed but the action scenes were well done and the FX worked well enough. It also has the courage to take itself seriously… a little too seriously considering the laughably corny and cliched dialog (which the actors uttered very seriously, though you know they HAD to know how bad it was).

I should add that this is a knowing continuation of the Frankenstein novel… the screenwriter apparently had read Mary Shelley’s book and took more from it than the various movies and pop culture that is Frankenstein (and then peppers in, you know, gargoyles and demons). I kind of appreciated the effort… even if the monster wasn’t handsome sexyman Aaron Eckhart.

Score: 71