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I watched Frankenstein's Army recently, fun movie, my expectations were pretty low though, so that probably made it seem better than it deserved. They really, really should have ditched the found footage angle of the movie, that would have helped it immeasurably. I generally don't object to the found footage framing device unlike many other people, but there has to be a reason why the story should be told in that format. Frankenstein's Army does not justify it's found footage perspective at all, in fact it undermines it. Anyone who knows anything about film in that era knows that the Russians didn't have color film at that point in time, nor did anyone have cameras with built in microphones, now did any cameras shoot in a 1.77 aspect ratio, nor would the film have had that fine of a image in terms of grain, nor would that much film would have been easy to lug around, nor would the shutters or film sensitivity back then would have allowed them to film in dimly lit areas, and so on and so on. For me, it doesn't hurt the movie too much, as this is a silly film, and it is chiefly about the monsters and bloody carnage, and in that department it delivers. There are a lot of great and inventive monsters in this movie. It felt like the later stages of a Wolfenstein game. For me, that's a good thing, but I could see why others would want more. I don't care that the story and characters are thin because I expected that going in. In the end, for me it's a good movie that could have been better, but at least it had its priorities straight.
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