Director-star Kennethy Branagh’s take on the “modern” Prometheus myth, as dreamt up by Mary Shelley, was rather dark and not precisely entertaining. Actually, it’s a bloated mess despite a first-rate cast that includes John Cleese, Tom Hulce and even Robert De Niro as Frankenstein’s Monster.
And unlike James Whale’s 1931 classic, this time, the Monster speaks rather than grunts all the time, allowing De Niro to be, well, De Niro. At the time, Branagh was married to fellow Brit Emma Thompson, but that marriage ended not long after he fell hard for his leading lady, Helena Bonham Carter.
