Movie Review: I, Frankenstein

Still, you keep your hopes up, given that he is played by Eckhart, and his main enemy is the delicious Nighy. Nighy, one suspects, had a private chuckle or two at being cast in the role of the prince of demons, but Eckhart, with his nice-looks, grey-tone roles? Here he is a solemn creature, who may have a soul or not, who may be a human or not, who may be seeking companionship or not, who may be a murderer or not, saddled with gargoyles as reluctant assistants — and it’s actually worse than it sounds. Bad souls, aka demons, go flaring up as fire, while good ones, aka gargoyles, go straight as a blue column into the sky — that’s how subtle this film is.

Otto plays the unfortunate queen of the gargoyles, with an even more unfortunate get-up, while Strahovski is the rare human in this film who happens to be a beautiful scientist called Terra, who can reproduce more creatures such as Adam — or not.