I, Frankenstein (2014) 6/10

Starring : Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Yvonne Strahovski, Miranda Otto, Jai Courtney, Socratis Otto
Director : Stuart Beattie
Running Time : 94 mins

Frankenstein’s monster, having now adopted the name Adam (Eckhart), is taken in by an order of Gargoyles to protect him from a group of demons that want him dead. More than two hundred years later, Adam discovers that Naberius (Nighy), the leader of the demon hoard, wants Victor Frankenstein’s journal to discover the secret to resurrecting the dead so he can create an army of soulless humans in which he can place his demons.

Once again the producers of Underworld have taken a mythology and turned it into an action movie, in so doing inadvertently sucking the very soul out of it. I can’t see this having any sequels, though the ending leaves things open for one, as the acting and script are so hammy. I couldn’t get to grips with why Adam had an American accent, considering everyone around him seemed to be English, and his Punisher-like personality wasn’t assisted by the casting of Thomas Jane lookalike Eckhart, but if you like mindless action movies with a sliver of a plot – basically if you enjoyed Underworld – then you might like this.

You’ll like this if you liked : Underworld : Awakening