Nerds That Geek Movie Review: 'I, Frankenstein'

Written by Scott Edwards

Trying to gain acceptance from a group is hard enough, but having to live down your family’s legacy can sometimes be downright impossible. No matter who you are, if your family has left a blemish to their name that can be found by anyone, they will think that you will become what your family was before you. Making your own name is the only way to combat these dilemmas by proving that you are not what you have been born into and will become something much greater.

Victor Frankenstein has frozen to death and his greatest creation is taking the body to his final resting place. Only wanting to do right by his creator, the creation is attacked by a demon that is only looking to feed. The creation dispatches of the demon while being watched from above by a gargoyle. The gargoyle takes note that the thing he is watching is stronger than anyone on earth as since this being is one of the few that has ever managed to kill a demon. Finding that the strength of this 'man' rivals his own, he takes the creation back to the Gargoyle Order to figure out what to do with it.

When the leader of the Gargoyle Order takes note of who the creation is and that he is not a myth, she decides to make him feel more human and calls him Adam. As the final creation by Dr. Frankenstein, Adam shows much more promise in what he can deliver to the order than what the gargoyles could ever dream of. Wanting Adam to join the age long battle against the demons, the gargoyles set him up with the weapons he desires, but unknown to them, Adam will not stay to join the fight.

Moving away to the farthest corner of the world he can locate, Adam feels safe for many years, but when the demons find his location, he decides that it is time to take the hunt to his hunters. Returning to civilization two hundred years later, Adam finds that the world has changed, but the demons have not. When attempting a hunt, an innocent human is killed by the demons and Adam is taken in front of the Gargoyle Order once again, but this time he is to be restrained from the human population as he can cause them more harm than good. When the demons find out that the creation of Frankenstein is being held and protected by the gargoyles, they devise a plan to free him, for he holds the key to bringing their new army to life. 

With plenty of action to keep you glued to the screen, I am still unsure as to what they were trying to do with the story. I think they were trying to put a spin on the classic good versus evil theme by having good become evil or evil become good and all that, but the action definitely overpowered everything. With that being said, the special effects are great and you get to see how the evil demons are sent back to hell and how the good gargoyles ascend back into heaven. Not much of the story line went into the creation of Victor Frankenstein’s beast, so if you are not familiar with that story, you might want to check it out first. I cannot really call it a horror movie as there are next to no scares, but I can definitely say this is an action movie with everything that comes your way. Happy viewing.

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