Am I the only fan of the novel who wasn't impressed by this?

Look, I know we're starved for faithful adaptations that actually give a crap about Shelley's story, but respect for your source material does not equate a good film. I wanted to love this, and it did have a lot going for it, mainly the performances of Goss and Sutherland, both of whom were brilliant. The final conversation between the two especially was excellent, and perfectly captured the tone and tragedy of the book. Shame the rest of the film suffered.

Alec Newman made a frankly boring Victor. There was just something about his performance that didn't sit right with me. He wasn't bad, but it wasn't the way I pictured him. I always imagined Victor more manic, more on edge than we see here. I dunno, I guess that's just me. And the rest of the cast too just seemed somewhat lacklustre.

The production values were very unimpressive to me. I know this was a made for TV production, so it's maybe unfair to judge them on this, but I was always hoping for something more epic, more powerful. A few sequences just straight up felt like a student film.

Also, the monster's makeup, I'm sorry, but it was just HORRIBLE. Like I said, Goss' performance, whilst not quite as sinister as the way Shelley wrote him, was excellent and perfectly cast, but the makeup was far too handsome, far too fake-looking. He looked like Fabio's week old goth kid corpse. When I read Shelley's description I think visible muscles barely covered by yellowing flesh, watery eyes and just something that looks pitifully hideous. Can you honestly picture this guy getting run out of town by scared townsfolk? The design seemed so half-assed to me.

There was a tonne of other issues too but those were the biggies. I'm sorry if I'm coming off as a troll here, but I just feel people are so starved for a faithful adaptation they'll just jump on this without looking at it as a film in it's own right. If you like it that's cool, just thought I'd voice my opinion.