Frankenstein (2025) - Emotionally Empty
My (Daryan’s) review of the movie Frankenstein (2025)
Spoiler alert
Why I believe it was a bad movie:
1. The horny woman or amateur acting or weak writing
There is a woman whose existence in the story makes zero sense. She meets Victor Frankenstein’s brother and falls in love with him, and they plan to get married. Then she meets Victor… surprise, she falls in love with him too. Then she meets Frankenstein’s monster… and guess what? She falls in love with him too.
Some might say her love toward the monster was like a mother-son bond, or some kind of deep, complicated love that fits this new trend where anyone can love anything, in any way, at any time, and everything is supposed to mean something but also nothing at the same time… but I don’t buy it.
I have no idea what the director wanted to show. Maybe it was just badly written, or maybe the actors (the woman and the monster) were so amateur that it turned into… this.
Or maybe it’s just Guillermo del Toro and his usual obsession with “beautiful woman + monster romance” like:
• The Shape of Water (2017)
• Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
• Crimson Peak (2015)
• Hellboy 1 & 2
2. Del Toro successfully failed to create drama
The core of Frankenstein is
Emotion.
Drama.
Pain.
And most importantly… tragedy.
It should show:
• Abandonment
• Being different
• Wanting love but scaring everyone away
• Rage and loneliness
And it shows none of that.
There is no emotional connection built with the audience. There’s a scene where the monster’s blind friend dies, and you feel a tiny pinch in your heart, like… 2% max, then it’s gone. Characters come and go and you don’t miss a single one.
That alone makes it a failure.
3. The story is supposed to be a TRAGEDY
I almost laughed when Victor said, “forgive me, son,” and the monster goes, “I forgive you,” and then saves the whole ship crew and walks toward the horizon like some Marvel hero ending:))
Everyone’s good, everything’s good, you good, I’m good, bad people die, good people walk into the sunset.
Really?
There are a ton of other nonsense moments too but honestly I don’t even want to type them. I already wasted 2 hours and 24 minutes of my precious life onatching this.
You might think I’m being a bit harsh about it… and yeah, you’re right. I usually choose my movies very carefully, so when something manages to slip through, I lose all tolerance.
