The new Frankenstein (with spoilers)

This was... fine. Not worth the length for me. The costumes and scenery are lavish and beautiful as you'd expect from Guillermo del Toro, but much of the added backstory felt trite and predictable to me (the forbidden love interest, the mysterious benefactor, etc.). Interestingly, one of the parts that works best is one of the few parts actually closer to the book, where the monster is at the farm. What the movie also lacks is the moral complexity of Shelley's monster. Here, the monster is violent but always in self-defense or with some mitigating factor, whereas the monster in the book does straight-up evil things but eloquently justifies them with his own suffering (a little like Candyman). Would love to see a Frankenstein movie close to the book!