“Victor Frankenstein” adds a “bromance” twist between James McAvoy's Frankenstein and Daniel Radcliffe's Igor. (Photo : YouTube/20th Century Fox)
20th Century Fox's "Victor Frankenstein" got released on Nov. 25, Wednesday. The movie has received a lukewarm response since the movie-goers are yet to identify with 19th centuy's Frankenstein, who excels in building a person out of flesh parts.
The movie focuses on a Britisher named Victor (James McAvoy), who lives in 19th century in London and has odd ways of bringing cold flesh to life. Despite the movie's title, the protagonist in the gothic horror is Igor (Daniel Radcliffe).
Igor is a a nameless hunchback working at a circus as a clown. When his beloved trapeze artist Lorelei (Jessica Brown Findlay) plummets to the ground one evening, he shows excellent medical skill. A medical student from the audience also rushes to his help and gets impressed by the hunchbacked clown.
The latter turs out to be Victor Frankenstein who in turn adopts the clown and names him Igor. It soon turns out that Igor is a home-schooled physician whose insight into anatomy can help animate the body parts stored in Victor's vast, dramatically lighted basement.
The pair goes on to make various homunculi, first a bloodthirsty chimp, then the unfortunate monster. Victor's father (Charles Dance) and Inspector Turpin (Andrew Scott) want to end the former's experiments. Freddie Fox is playing a wealthy aristocrat in the movie who intends to be the one to bring Victor's reanimation process to market and even has a spooky castle in Scotland that the scientist can use after things get too hot for him in London.
Throughout the movie,Victor tries to create his infamous monster, and keeps getting failed everytime.
The movie is written by Max Landis of "American Ultra" fame and is directed by Paul McGuigan who is known to have directed several episodes of the BBC's "Sherlock." The movie has been slammed by the critics as an easy pitfall which should be best avoided.
