I, Frankenstein Movie Review

I, Frankenstein 

                                                                   

I, Frankenstein is a fantasy action thriller movie released in 2014. This movie is written by Stuart Beattie and Kevin Grevioux and directed by Stuart Beattie. The character Frankenstein is the same as the monster created by British author Mary Shelley in her famous novel 'Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'. The major characters of the movie I, Frankenstein are played by Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Yvonne Strahovski, Miranda Otto and Jai Courtney.

I, Frankenstein tells the story of the monster Frankenstein, who runs away and then comes back to the society in the modern world. He then gets caught between the fight of the demons and the angels. 

A scene from the movie I, Frankenstein 

Plot:

I, Frankenstein starts from the almost the same place where the novel Frankenstein ends. The difference is, here Victor Frankenstein heads to the arctic regions with his monster, where he dies. The monster comes back carrying Victor's dead body to the civilization. There he buries the body and just after that, some demons attack him. He is saved by some gargoyles. The gargoyles bring him back to their home. Here the queen of the gargoyles names him 'Adam' and tells him about their purpose in the earth.

She also tells him about demons and about their fight with them. They ask Adam to stay and fight with them, but Adam refuses. Adam takes some weapons and runs away from civilization. He stays alone for two centuries, but all these times the demons are trying to capture him. So to get rid of them, he finally comes back to civilization to hunt the demons himself.

He goes to a nightclub and there he kills some demons. Then the gargoyles again bring him to their home. In the meantime, we see the demon leader disguised as a human, who has appointed two scientists to bring life back to the deaths, the experiments which was done by Victor Frankenstein. Victor's journal (which is with Adam now) or Adam is very crucial for his experiments, to study and to come to a positive result.

The demon leader learns that Adam is now at the gargoyles' place, so he sends an army to catch him. The demons have a big fight with the gargoyles, which kills some on the most important gargoyle soldiers and also a lot of demons. The demons capture gargoyle queen and take her as a hostage. From a demon, Adam learns that she will be released if Adam or Victor's journal is given to the demons.

Adam frees the gargoyle queen in exchange of the journal. He then follows a demon and goes to their headquarter. There he sees thousands of dead bodies are kept by the demons. Then he meets the demon leader, who tells Adam his masterplan, which is to bring life (actually, demon spirit) to all these dead bodies and make an army, with which, he will rule the earth. Adam then retrives the journal and leaves that place.

The demons leader sends a demon to capture Adam. Adam takes help from the lady scientist of the demon leader, who trusts Adam after seeing the demon herself. Adam kills that demon and goes into hiding. He also warns the gargoyles about the demon's plan. Seeing the danger of mankind, the gargoyle queen sends her highest gargoyle to kill Adam. But finally Adam kills him and then he destroys the journal.

Adam is now a common enemy of both of the demons and the gargoyles. The demons want to capture and study him where the gargoyles want to kill him for the safety of the mankind. The gargoyles led by their queen chase Adam and he runs to the demons' headquarter, which puts the demons and the gargoyle army face to face.

My review about the movie I, Frankenstein :

I, Frankenstein seemed like just a very average movie.

The plot of I, Frankenstein was interesting but very predictable. It didn't give any exciting ending at all. The direction and the screenplay was very average.

The acting of all the major characters of I, Frankenstein were okay. The dialogues were also very average, neither bad nor nothing special. I think, it would seem better if a little more importance was given to the character of the lady scientist. The make ups in I, Frankenstein were good, specially the make up of Adam. But considering all other characters, the make ups of the demons (in their demon form) should have been better. 

The special effects and the animations of I, Frankenstein were very impressive. Specially the gargoyles looked really good. The lighting and the camera works were also good for most of the parts. 

Some concepts of I, Frankenstein looked really unrealistic, even for a fantasy film. For example, after roaming in the uncivilized regions of the earth for 200 years, how come Adam knew the roads and the exact place where he could get a lead on the demons? How come so much actions could go around causing the crashing of cars and buildings without alerting any human at all?

I, Frankenstein does not contain any nude or gore scene, so you can watch it safely with children.

So, finally, I, Frankenstein didn't seem like an enjoyable movie. You can enjoy this movie for the special effects or some of the action scenes, but not the plot or anything else. Although it has an average IMDB rating of 5.4 (while I'm writing this), but I think that is overrated. I will not recommend to watch I, Frankenstein to anyone. But if you have enough time to kill, watching I, Frankenstein won't waste your time.

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Wrong Turn 5 Movie Review

Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines
                                                      

Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines is a crime horror thriller movie released in 2012. This movie is written by Declan O'Brien, Alan B. McElroy and directed by Declan O'Brien. The main characters of Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines are played by Doug Bradley, Camilla Arfwedson, Simon Ginty, Roxanne McKee, Paul Luebke, Oliver Hoare, Kyle Redmond-Jones and Amy Lennox. Radoslav Parvanov, George Karlukovski and Borislav Iliev play the characters of the three serial killers. As the name suggests, Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines is the fifth movie of the horror franchise Wrong Turn. 

Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines is the story of the same old tree psychopath serial killers, who haunts five teen tourists and some police in a small town.

A Scene from the movie Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines

Plot:

Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines starts with a newscaster reporting about some festival from a small town. At one time, she goes to the woods and then gets attacked and killed by the three disfigured psychopaths. This time we see another man with them. Later on, it is revealed that that man is somewhat a relative of them and they are living in a cabin in the woods under his protection. He scolds them for not being enough careful.


Then we see a group of five teens, who are camping in the jungle. They have plans to visit somewhere else, but decides to visit that small town to see that festival. While they are on the way, they hit the relative of the maniacs (although it was planned by him). When they get out the car, he attacks them, but the sheriff and his deputy arrives there just then. The sheriff finds some drugs with the teens and after hearing everything, she arrests the group and the man and takes them all to the police station of the town. She (the sheriff) leaves her deputy with the crashed car, who is then killed by the three psychopaths who were waiting nearby for their prey.

At the police station, one of the teens confess that he owns all the drugs. So the sheriff lets the other four teens go. They rent rooms in a nearby hotel. Meanwhile in the police station, the man (the relative of the killers) threatens the sheriff that she should let him go, otherwise his people will come for him and kill everyone to set him free. Naturally, nobody gets scared.

The three killers reach that town to look for him. It seems like the festival of that small town is something like a Halloween costume party, so the disfigured maniacs roam around the town without drawing much attention. Then they enter the power station of that town, kill the guard and shut down the power of the whole town.

Then they start killing the teens one by one. They even kill one in front of the police station. This creates panic and the sheriff frees the captured teen along with another prisoner and gives them shotgun after deputizing them. But this doesn't stop the three killers. She also tries to get help from other nearby police stations, but fails. They manage to kill her husband also.

At one point, the relative of the killers gets free from the jail. Now, the leader rejoins the unstoppable group of killers. Can the sheriff stop them? Can any of the teens survive? To find the answer, you need to watch the movie.


My review about the movie Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines:
First of all, I didn't like this movie at all.

The plot of Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines is very simple and predictive. If you have seen a few Hollywood horror movies or any other of the same series, it will be pretty easy to predict the ending which is nowhere near exciting at all. The direction was also bad. And as a horror movie, Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines will fail totally to scare anyone.

The acting of the leading characters in Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines were not that bad. The dialogues and the make ups were okay, although nothing extraordinary. The scenes of the killing were gore in Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines which they were meant to be. Although the scenes in the jungle looked good in this movie, but the set design of the town was poor.

Another important thing is, in Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines, the teens plan to go to that town and reaches there, so this fifth movie of this franchise does not contain its trademark scene, a mistakenly taken 'wrong turn'.

Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines contains nudity and gore scenes. So who has any idea of this movie series, knows this is not for children.

I've had the chance to watch only the Wrong Turn 4 of this series other than Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines, so I can't compare the fifth one with the ones before part 4. But to me, Wrong Turn 4 was far better than this. I've read in a lot of discussions that the first two movies of this series were actually good and then the series is getting worse by each new sequel. And most of people has given their comments as Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines is the worst of this series.

So, finally, I didn't like Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines for its lack of a good plot, lack of any excitement or surprise, poor set design and too many gore scenes. A poor IMDB rating of 4 (while I'm writing this review) also supports my opinion. I think, other than the hardcore fan of this gore horror movies, nobody else will enjoy Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines.

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The review of the sequel of this movie, Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort is published here: Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort Review

Axed Movie Review

Axed
                         

Axed is a horror drama thriller movie released in 2012. This movie is written and directed by Ryan Lee Driscoll. The very limited casting of the movie Axed includes Jonathan Hansler, Andrea Gordon, Nicola Posener, Christopher Rithin, Henry Douthwaite and Brandon Francis.

Axed is about a man who loses his mind after losing his job and then plans to kill his own wife and children.

A scene from the movie Axed

Plot:

Axed starts by showing a man named Kurt losing his job. Then he has a mental breakdown.

In his home next morning, he treats his wife and children (two teens, a son and a daughter) very badly. As their regular routine, he is supposed to drop his children at their school and his wife at her office. He passes the school of his children without stopping. When asked, he replies them that they don’t have to go to school that day.

He also doesn’t let his wife attend her office and keeps on driving with them to a far place. Although he tries to give an impression that they are heading towards an unknown destination and they will stop at any place they want, but he takes them to a cabin which is arrange by him earlier. Throughout the journey, he seems to be in a very good mood and he says, he is doing this to have some family times together.

At the cabin, flowers and notes were ready there for his wife. He takes the cell phone from his wife and daughter, saying, this is the time for family and no one should contact outside. Then we see he secretly visits and then beats a man, whom he has kept tied to bed at a room in that cabin.

Then all of them go for a walk outside, where his misbehaviours come back. When they returns at the cabin, Kurt gives the others gifts, where each of them are very very inappropriate. The he accuses his wife for cheating on him with his ex boss. He also accuses her about it in front of his children. Then he gives an axe to his son and sends his children out to get some woods.

His daughter has another cell phone with her and she calls her boyfriend from the outside. In the cabin, the tied man upstairs makes noises that are heard by Kurt’s wife. Kurt and his wife go upstairs and the wife finds that it is Kurt’s ex boss.

The children come back and find their phones destroyed by Kurt. Kurt comes downstairs and then scolds the children about the use of the axe. Kurt then beats the children unconscious.

They wake up at the upstairs with that room. Then Kurt makes his wife perform an inappropriate act with that man. At one point, the wife and the son runs away. Before Kurt brings them back at the cabin, the daughter tries to free the man, but fails.

While the four of then are having their launch, Kurt discovers the other cell phone and destroys that one also. He then gets annoyed by the noise of the tied man and finally kills him. Together they bury the body.

His wife then tries to run away with her children with the car, but fails. Kurt then kills her in from of the children. Later that night, the siblings try to run away in the nearby jungle. The daughter’s boyfriend comes there, but Kurt kills him. Then the children are chased by their father.

At one point, they manage to tie Kurt in the cabin, but Kurt gets out of it. The psychopath father again chases his children, where the children must run for their lives.

My review about the movie Axed:

First of all, I didn’t like the movie Axed at all.

The plot of Axed was very straightforward. Although the ending is a little different from the very typical horror movies, but still, it didn’t give any excitement. The direction and screenplay didn’t look good at all.

The acting of the son and the daughter of Kurt were very bad in Axed where the acting of Kurt and his wife was a little better. The dialogues were not that bad, sometimes they were good and sometimes very average.

The biggest problem with the movie Axed was the characters. Kurt was okay as a psychopath, but no other characters looked realistic at all. Each character had its problem in Axed, but they didn’t do anything a real person would do in a situation like that. For example, after the first killing, none of them tried to run away from the cabin. They helped Kurt to hide the body. They all faced Kurt’s abusive behavior without almost any protest. When they went outside, they couldn’t manage to ask anyone for help. And part where the daughter trying to seduce her father and the father falling for that, seemed ridiculous.

The make ups were not good also, and the blood effects seemed totally artificial. The use of effects in Axed was kept to a very minimum scale, which was a good idea. The lighting and the camera works were very average.

Although there was no nudity or gore scene, for the abusive nature of this film, Axed is not appropriate for children.

So, finally, as I’ve written earlier, I didn’t enjoy Axed at all. Only a better and more realistic portrayal of the characters could make this movie a lot better. Although it was supposed to be a thriller, but the thrill was never high at any time throughout the movie. Overall, I will not recommend watching Axed to anyone.

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