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Critics Consensus: Mary Shelley smooths out its subject's fascinating life and fails to communicate the spark of her classic work, undermining fine period detail and a solid Elle Fanning performance.
Critic Consensus: Mary Shelley smooths out its subject's fascinating life and fails to communicate the spark of her classic work, undermining fine period detail and a solid Elle Fanning performance.
All Critics (114) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (46) | Rotten (68)
The movie is still well executed but, at two hours, not even Fanning's persuasive performance can elevate it to being more than a moderately interesting historical drama.
If it falls short of its ambitions, you have to love that it tries to go for the big story, and that it gives Elle Fanning such a grand role at her tender age.
Fanning holds the screen as someone intent on writing her own destiny.
The film, though handsome and well-acted, reduces Mary Shelley's accomplishments; it's almost over by the time "Frankenstein" gets written, with little attention paid to its author's creative spark.
As it stands, this monstrously inept creation is more terrifying than any scenario the author conjured up.
To make boring the revelries of 19th century literati is no mean feat, but it is "Mary Shelley's" chief accomplishment.
Haifaa Al-Mansour, the director of this Mary Shelley bio pic, also knows what it's like to defy convention and put oneself at risk of public censure.
This is a CW version of 19th Century Britain, more interested in mediocre aesthetics than in any real exploration of these characters or their age.
It's unfortunate that such a fascinating life should be confined to a film of such limited scope.
There is no life in these scenes-none of the gumption that must have fueled Mary's early decisions.
Plays out rather as a soapy TV drama might, with many of the historical details fudged and some of the more scintillating nuggets transpiring in a series of unsatisfactory reveals.
A fine performance by Elle Fanning in the title role goes a long way to compensate, more than rescuing Mary from the fate of being a footnote in the Shelley-Byron bromance.
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