Film Review - Frankenstein (2025)

Frankenstein is based on the Mary Shelley Book and is directed by Guillermo Del Toro and concerns Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) who wants to overcome the nature of death in life and seeks to create the perfect creature but those who play God should be careful what they wish for.

Frankenstein is quite enjoyable and this feels like a natural story for Guillermo Del Toro to make into a movie given that so many of his movies deal with monsters and gods and the role of humanity in those stories be it Pan’s Labyrinth or Pacific Rim or his Oscar winning The Shape of Water and here he does a great job with the writing and directing of the film and visually this movie is immaculate, the production design by Tamara Devell, the costume design by Kate Hawley, the music score by Alexandre Desplat and the cinematography by Dan Lausten are fantastic and I really feel for those who will not watch this in a dark cinema instead of at home on Netflix because it really looks great on the big screen.

Most of the cast also delivers as well, Jacob Elordi deserves an Oscar nomination for his work here as Frankenstein the creature, the way he moves/the way he walks/the way he gestures himself with his body language and his voice is really impressive and I don’t know if the movie would work as well if he wasn’t as good in the role, Mia Goth is also very good in a small role as well along with Charles Dance/David Bradley and Christoph Waltz in their roles.

But someone I didn’t like as much was Oscar Isaac as Dr Frankenstein himself, after a while his portrayal left me a little cold as it started to feel a little one note in terms of his obsessions and his desire for vengeance against his own creation and that didn’t work as well for me but these things happen.

And so that was Frankenstein and its quite good and if you can see it in a cinema please do so you will not be disappointed, 3 and a half out of 5.