Sadly Over-hyped

Fantastic!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Worst piece of garbage I've wasted my time on in a long time. Absolutely unintelligible dialog, Shaky, nauseating AMATEUR hand-held camera work. We only watched maybe ten minutes of it and decided we'd both had enough of the TRULY AWFUL camera work. It's NOT "arty", it's NOT "cool", it's just shaky AMATEUR camera work and it's GARBAGE by any metric. Grow up, get a dolly or a tripod, pull up your big-boy pants AND HOLD THE CAMERA STEADY.

This is a very scary movie. It is a sequel to Frankenstein. It has a great story line. It has great acting. It has great special effects. It is a must see. 5.3 is underrating this movie. I give this movie 10 out of 10 because it is a awesome movie. If it does not scary you no movie will. This is one of the best horror movie of all time. Frankenstein (1931) is better. The bride of Frankenstein is better. Frankenstein (1994) is also better. Son of Frankenstein is also better. The ghost of Frankenstein is also better. Frankenstein meets the wolf man also better. But still this is scarier then The Exorcist and that is not easy to do. See this movie it is very scary. It is a great horror film.

I couldn't understand a damned thing anyone was saying in this ugly, occasionally-imaginative horror flick. Didn't stop me. I just watched.Remember the Nazi Pig-Troopers who come crashing into David Kessler's house in An American Werewolf in London? Multiply those squealing nasties by about a dozen--and sprinkle in the one critter from the various Hellraisers with the clicking, chomping choppers-- and you've got the latest creations by the fashionista of Fascism, Dr. Viktor Frankenstein (crazy as his cousin, Peter Cushing). I loved the first Zombot-thingy that the Soviet soldiers find in the generator room. That one scared me--androgynous, sightless, totally aware, and, well, yech!I found moments of real horror mixed in with the film. One of the Russian squad members is a psychopath. We'd like to think he runs his fighting knife into a whimpering woman's chest cavity because he wants to put her out of her third-degree pain, but we know he just wanted to shut her up, to tie up a loose end before moving on. That was the most unpleasantly believable moment in this sci-fier. As the Roosians dig deeper into this convent from hell, we get to see ever-weirder creations from Frankenco Enterprises (I loved the one with the propeller for a face--vroom!) and, even though what little story there was breaks down, and is replaced by guts, gore, and, I swear, Karo Syrup for brain lube, I couldn't help but watching to see who-- or what--makes it out of Viktor's Haus of Horrors.I just sat there with my mouth hanging open, guffawing and eeyoooing when the one soldier (unarmed--sorry) keeps fungooing Dr. Frank cuz that's all he can throw at him, when the Polish noncom gets a new outlook on the blending of Marxism and Hitlerian goose-stepping, and when it looks as if the only uninjured squad member is about to lose something vital, not by Frankenstein's hands but by Soviet artillery.It all made just about zero sense--and there were so many fun things the art director could have cooked up in order to add to the freakshowism of Frankenstein's Army--but by the end, I had given up on worrying about that which was lackluster and thought about how R2-D2 would look in a coal-scuttle helmet and a German greatcoat.What makes Frankenstein's Army lose its battle is the fact that Viktor's creations aren't recognizably human (for the most part). If you've struggled through Mary Shelley's novel or seen a bunch of movies (including the NBC movie from 1973), you know that the story of Frankenstein's creature works because the audience feels sorry for it, wants its pain to be assuaged. Here, the monsters are just another variation of zombies. We feel no pain for them--even the ones who look sort of human--and therefore, we don't care for them. Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't want to meet the creature from the novel or Michael Sarrazin as his face starts to unravel in the TV- movie way back when, but I felt sorry for all the moaning, screeching critters, in the 1930 original to one of those poor dumb things Peter Cushing cooked up and then had to cook.It's weird. I think I wanted more campiness. You know . . . Ziggy Disgust.

One in a wave of Nazi zombie films to come out in the past decade, FRANKENSTEIN'S ARMY is a deliriously insane slice of B-movie film-making. The plot is as simple as anything, but what this Czech film lacks in intricacy and subtlety it more than makes up for with its sheer visual inventiveness.This is another 'found footage' movie which follows a squad of Russian soldiers trekking through east Germany in the dying days of WW2. They soon come across a seemingly abandoned complex which turns out to house a mad scientist and some decidedly odd creations. The zombies in this film are some of the most creative ever put on film, and the camera-work and music make them into fearsome creations.The acting is nothing to write home about, aside from another solid turn from stock bad guy Karel Roden (HELLBOY), but the technical values are very good. The creations are the best part of it, of course, but this is also an extremely gory film in which the blood and body parts flow freely. It sure as hell isn't high art, but it is viciously entertaining and thoroughly engrossing for what it is.