Best movie of this year hands down!

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Awesome Movie

Baron Charles Frankenstein (Sting) and his assistants create Eva (Jennifer Beals) for his monster (Clancy Brown). Eva rejects the monster and he destroys the lab. Frankenstein escapes with Eva. Unbeknowst to him, the monster also escapes and befriends midget Rinaldo. Rinaldo teaches him humanity and gives him the name Viktor. They travel to Budapest and join the circus. Meanwhile, Frankenstein intends to civilize Eva and mold her into his love. He tells everyone that he found her in the woods with memory lost. Captain Josef Schoden (Cary Elwes) is taken with her. She encounters Viktor and the spark is reignited.The movie has little tension. When the story splits in two, the tension fades. Sting is stiff in this and not his best role. Jennifer Beals doesn't deserve her Razzie nomination. Her role requires some odd work from her. This is a bad attempt at reworking the Frankenstein story.

After the creation of his creature (Clancy Brown), Dr. Frankenstein (Sting) researches and creates a perfect woman, Eva (Jennifer Beals), to be the mate of the creature. However, the anxiety of the creature creates havoc in the laboratory that is burnt down and explodes, killing Frankenstein's assistants Dr. Zahlus (Quentin Crisp) and Paulus (Timothy Spall). Dr. Frankenstein believes the creature died too but he flees to the woods. Soon he meets and befriends the dwarf Rinaldo (David Rappaport), who gives a name to him, Viktor, and invites him to work in a circus in Budapest. Meanwhile Frankenstein and his house keeper Mrs. Baumann (Geraldine Page) teach Eva how to behave and to be independent. One day, Frankenstein introduces Eva to the high-society, telling that she was found amnesic in the woods and has become his protégée. But Frankenstein becomes obsessed of Eva while Viktor and she have a strange connection. What will happen to Eva? "The Bride" is a different version of Frankenstein story by Mary Shelley. The film is actually a romance that begins slow paced but well resolved in the end. Clancy Brown has an outstanding performance in the role of the naive creature. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "A Prometida" ("The Promised One")

A few minutes into this movie and I began wondering if there might have been a prequel that I should have been aware of. It felt like a continuation of a story that had gone before with the character of the yet unnamed Viktor (Clancy Brown) representing the Frankenstein Monster that all horror fans are familiar with. This sense of being just a bit off balance remained with me for the rest of the picture, because this wasn't really a horror film per se, but more of a Gothic love story gone wrong for the principals, Dr. Frankenstein (Sting) and his latest creation which he named Eva (Jennifer Beals).There's actually a story within a story as the movie unfolds, as Dr. Frankenstein's original creation escapes from the burning castle tower following a laboratory accident and an experiment gone wrong. Presumed dead, the ungainly creature is befriended by the dwarf Rinaldo (David Rappaport) who convinces him to journey along to Budapest to join the circus and make their fortune. There's an awkward subtext of 'following one's dream' that carries through the remainder of the story that relies on a psychic link between the newly named Viktor and the woman Eva he felt spurned by when she was first created. When Viktor cries at the death of his friend, Eva cries as well, feeling trapped by the domineering aspect of her creator.It almost seems as if the writer and director were inserting as many themes into the story that they felt they could get away with in attracting an audience. Along with the 'follow one's dream' aspect, there was also an obvious overture to women's lib, with Eva consistently extolling the right to her own person, while the Baron's friend Clerval (Anthony Higgins) lamented the idea of any woman attaining equality with men. Attempting to explore too many of these ideas, the film didn't do justice to any of them.The ending of the story had sort of a 'Beauty and the Beast' style resolution, with the homely Viktor reuniting with the woman he loved from the moment he first saw her. None of it seemed to work for this viewer, particularly the forced feeling of the picture's happy ending. By then, the voice over narration and vision of the dwarf Rinaldo insuring the picture's message of 'he will win' just made it seem all too corny for my taste.

Sting, Jennifer Beals, Clancy Brown, David Rappaport and Cary Elwes star in this 1985 romantic horror film adaptation of Mary Shelly's novel. Rock Legend, Sting plays scientist, Frankenstein who recreates 2 people intended for each other until they're separated after a lab explosion. Beals (Flashdance) plays Eva, the woman who is taught about life and herself by Frankenstein. Brown (The Shawshank Redemption) plays the man, Viktor who wanders around the countryside. The late, Rappaport (Time Bandits) plays Rinaldo, a dwarf who not only befriends Viktor, but teaches him to follow his heart and dreams. Soon, Frankenstein tries to keep Eva for himself, but she and Viktor eventually find their way to each other. Elwes (The Princess Bride) appears briefly as Josef, a young man who takes advantage of Eva. I've always liked this film and think it's underrated. It's got some dramatic and suspenseful moments, Sting & the cast are great as well as Maurice Jarre's score. I recommend this.