If you see only one movie this year about Frankenstein's monster caught in a war between demons and angels who are also gargoyles... then you are totally fucked, because this movie is horrible.

It spends its first 20 minutes carefully explaining one of the silliest mythologies ever, then spends the next hour completely ignoring all of the rules it just laid out. In one scene, the angel-gargoyle people have captured and imprisoned Frankenstein because he dared to fight a demon in view of a human being. "Ours is a war that must be fought in secret!" one yells at him in a haughty British accent (in this movie, all angels and demons hail from England). Literally one scene later, demons arrive to kidnap Frankenstein and dozens of gargoyles are straight-up murdering hundreds of demons in full view of the entire city. Talk about some do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do gargoyles.

Eckhart's angular, sinewy face is a good one for a Frankenstein's monster, just not *this* Frankenstein's monster, who mostly karate bludgeons bad guys in sub-BUFFY demon masks. And for what it is, the effects aren't terrible (then again, Box Office Mojo says I, FRANKENSTEIN cost $65 million to make, and I, Singer would have guessed about $35 million less than that). But these really are 80 of the dumbest minutes produced by a Hollywood studio in this century. If you told me Tommy Wiseau did a dialogue polish on this thing I would absolutely believe you.