This tortured retelling of “Frankenstein” is as slapdash and ill-advised as the monster himself.

“You know this story,” Igor says at the beginning of “Victor Frankenstein,” and, boy, do we ever.

Read the Empire Movie review of Victor Frankenstein. Crackling with energy and fizzing with ideas, this fresh take on Frankenstein is a thrilling...

Victor Frankenstein: EW Review

It’s alive! Just…

In the latest spin on the Frankenstein story, Daniel Radcliffe plays Igor to James McAvoy’s mad scientist.

 (12A)​ Paul McGuigan, 110 mins. Starring: James McAvoy, Daniel Radcliffe, Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott, Freddie Fox

Almost certainly, the brains behind Victor Frankenstein - set first in 1860s London, then in a jagged castle on the rocky Scottish coast - were out to mimic ...

The latest retelling of Mary Shelley’s classic tale is a cobbled-together farrago of cod psychology and makeshift backstory

Is the big studio creative well that dry and desperate that it was an imperative to trot out another Frankenstein movie?

It doesn't have much of an ending, but Victor Frankenstein is a livelier updating of a British classic than, say, the latest from James Bond.

This un-terrifying film tries to find an interesting twist on the classic Frankenstein tale, but horrifically fails. First, it basically just retells, cartoo...

There’s something alarming in “Victor Frankenstein” but it isn’t the reanimated bits of corpse that make up a monster. It’s James McAvoy’s acting...

This film, starring James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe, recasts a ghoulish story into something of a buddy movie.

This film, starring James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe, recasts a ghoulish story into something of a buddy movie.

The Frankenstein saga gets a half-hearted resurrection in this lackluster version told from the perspective of the doctor's assistant, Igor, rescued from a c...

It’s amazing that, two years in a row, a movie with the name “Frankenstein” in the title will claim a spot of dishonor on my “Turkeys of the Year” ...

Despite bravura performances from committed young leads Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy, "Victor Frankenstein" is all kinds of obnoxious and pointless.

“You know this story,” the sidekick soon-to-be-known as Igor narrates. Lightning, corpses, “a mad genius.” But what if you didn’t? You know, “kno...

Dir. Paul McGuigan. US/UK. 2015. 109mins.

At this time of giving and being thankful for life's blessings, I give you the advice to stay far away from Victor Frankenstein. You can thank me later.

James McAvoy plays title character as a hyper-driven medical student and border-case sociopath

Too silly to take seriously, not campy enough to be truly fun

This sloppy origin story of the infamous surgeon can't seem decide whether or not to put tongue in cheek

Offering a slightly skewed angle on Mary Shelley’s classic tale, Paul McGuigan’s “Victor Frankenstein” stitches together a patchwork of ideas — som...

Victor Frankenstein is a movie mostly about Frankenstein failing to create his monster.