Enjoyed It, but It Needed...

to seriously tone down the grimness. I understand the movie is supposed to be about the battle between light and darkness. I got it that Frankenstein was searching for his humanity. But good lord, was it dark (and I don't mean character's motivations). I find movies like this and Underworld and Twilight to be hilarious in the fact that no human on earth seems to notice these massive battles occurring right under their noses (or over their heads). In Underworld, they shot up an entire train car and had a blazing gun battle on the streets. Someone HAD to have noticed those. In I, Frankenstein, gargoyles and demons are running rampant over building tops killing each other, bright lights and fire erupting with each death and no one notices. Its like every human is on Prozac.

Now, despite the need to make the movie so grim, I rather enjoyed it. Aaron Eckhart is a fun actor who does controlled rage very well. Obviously, the character only loosely bore resemblance to the literary character and I was okay with that. I liked how he was the antithesis to everyone else in the movie. He was the only one of his kind. They should have explored that better.

Yvonne Stahovski was completely wasted as the stereotypical scientist/love interest. She is much better than this.

Is Bill Nighy contractually obligated to appear in every movie about vampires, werewolves, demons or zombies? How did he not show up in Twilight?

The fight scenes are extraordinary and the looming battle between good and evil was a nice backdrop. I also liked how even the angels had blackness in their hearts (although I was curious why they got to descend if they were not following the plan.) I think it would have been more interesting if not all the angels were good and not all the demons were bad. They seemed all one dimensional.

This was a good popcorn flick and the pacing of the movie makes it not drag. I liked the theme and wished it had done better at the box office so we might see a sequel (I, Frankenstein II?).

My memory foam pillow says it can't remember my face. I can tell its lying.