Of all the Franky adaptations, this is GDT's one.
Out on the ice, a ship encounters a raving madman who tells them a story of the time he created a monster. Then the monster takes his turn to tell of the time he turned into a man.
A lot of this is a pretty faithful adaptation, although it goes with the "electricity" origin the movies made. And for some reason Elizabeth is just some woman Victor knows, not his wife to be. I'm sure there are deep reasons for that, but the biggest change is the end of the movie in which the message of the story is changed.
Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi put in the full work to get Victor and the Creature on screen, and well done to them. We get Charles Dance, Christoph Waltz and David Bradley giving great performances, if too briefly for some of them. But I couldn't buy Mia Goth as Elizabeth. I can see what GDT was aiming for, but she wasn't doing it for me (and those outfit choices weren't helping).
A lot of people are already saying this is peak movie, and... I salute them even as I don't agree.
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