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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:16
Rotten:20
Average Rating:5.5/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: In this adaptation of the classic Mary Shelley tale, Kenneth Branagh stars as Victor Frankenstein, a man possessed by a mission to create life but painfully unaware of the consequences of his... [More]
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham-Carter
Director: Kenneth Branagh
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Reviews for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Top CriticVisceral and energetic sceen translation of this literary classic.
08/26/02
Branagh's ambitious take succeeds as a cautionary tale about true monstrosity: hubris and man's inhumanity to man. But one man's operatic style is another man's unintentionally comical excess, and...Frankenstein certainly tempts fate... [Blu-ray]
10/26/09
It's Greek tragedy, and when its characters utter invocations to the gods in turn, it manages to feel cheesy in exactly the right way.
02/08/06
An oddly moving father-son love story.
01/13/04
The Creature is on target, but the rest of the film is so frantic, so manic, it doesn't pause to be sure its effects are registered.
01/01/00
Top CriticBranagh's directing style is soupy and derivative of all the wrong movies.
01/28/02
It does ... suggest that Branagh is a filmmaker who is continually extending his reach and truly seeks to reinterpret source material in a uniquely cinematic language.
01/01/00
A weirdly muddled and embarrassingly over-the-top fiasco.
08/13/07
As wrongheaded as Coppola's Dracula (in different ways), Frankenstein is all bluff, bombast and bargain-basement borrowings from Ken Russell's Gothic.
04/02/03
It's an odd and uneasy mix, but the look of the film is dazzling and the performances are all first-rate.
01/01/00
It is, in a word, dullsville.
01/01/00
Top CriticFor all its attention to detail and special effects, this version lacks the pathos and tragedy in the complex and ambivalent relationship between the father-creator and his creature-monster; De Niro is misguided by director Branagh.
01/02/07
A bloody mess (in both artistry and gore-level) and is extremely difficult to watch.
01/01/00
I'm inclined to give it an 8 now. The more you watch, the more you appreciate how Branagh was able to faithfully retell Shelley's novel while still managing to make it fresh and make it relevant.
10/11/09
Branagh doesn't evoke terror, only repulsion.
01/01/00
Top CriticAs this movie switches, unevenly, from swashbuckling adventure to classic horror to frilly-shirted romance to campiness to graphic gorefest, there's no telling what you're watching.
01/01/00
Top CriticUma das mais fiéis e complexas adaptações da história original, respeitando seus temas principais mesmo que desviando-se, aqui e ali, de pontos específicos da trama.
11/20/08
Clearly, one person's authentic homage is another person's overwrought teeth-gnashing fest, as Branagh's film never hesitates to slop on the melodramatic mustard.
10/14/09
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