Victor Frankenstein Film Review

Finished watching Victor Frankenstein directed by Paul McGuigan and staring Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay, Andrew Scott, Charles Dance and Freddie Fox. The film opens in the circus outside of London where it is narrated by Igor (Daniel Radcliffe) who is currently a hunchback clown at the circus who is noticed by Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy) when performer Lorelai (Jessica Brown Findlay) falls of the trapeze and is saved by the use of Igor's medical knowledge. After saving Lorlai Victor goes back stage of the circus and finds Igor in order to take him back to his home to cure Igor of his hunchback and gives him the name of Igor. In the morning after escaping from the circus police inspector Roderick Turpin (Andrew Scott) how has already been on the trail of Victor for a while due to him buying and stealing animal parts from the local zoo and area, looks over the crime scene and putting out a warrant for the arrest of Igor and Victor after seeing the body of a dead circus performer. While back at Victor's home he shows Igor a part of experiment that he wants to demonstrate to his collage as Victor reanimated a set of human eyes with a little assistance from Igor leading to the two embarking on creating a proto Frankenstein monster from animal parts. Overall this was a decent film as it dives into the story of how Victor Frankenstein slowly got to the point of his life where he created his infamous monster. Use of camerawork is great as it is used to show the dominance one character has over another thanks to the use different angles used with characters like Victor's father Baron Frankenstein (Charles Dance) seemingly towering Victor by the use of a low angle shot which helps to show his dominance and power over Victor. The character of Igor seems oblivious to most of Victor's experiment until Victor unveils it to Igor while most of their interactions seem almost as if Victor is manipulating Igor in places while later in the film it turns to Vitor being manipulated by Finnegan (Freddie Fox) who wants an army of monsters after seeing Victor's experiment at his collage. 6/10.