Josh Keown | Night Terror Novels 🧛🏻♂️’s review published on Letterboxd:
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Throughout his career, be it as an inventor or a film producer, Thomas Edison proved incredibly talented at blatant plagiarism or just passing off someone else's hard work as his own. Faust and Marguerite is a prime example of this, where, instead of producing his own take on the age-old fable, Edison is evidently more comfortable in practically duplicating the Lumière brothers and Georges Méliès versions instead.
Not to criticise Edwin S. Porter in any way, but he would prove to be much better suited to simpler, more grounded tales than the fantastical one he tries to tackle here. His lack of experience and prowess in this area of cinema only serves to cement the sub-mediocrity of this slog through a story told a million different ways, and nigh on all more proficiently than this.
VERDICT; An unnecessary remake of a European film by an inept filmmaker. Sound familiar? Because it sure does to me. Sigh. I guess at least BraindEdison prepared cinema for over a century of crap remakes.
2/5 or 4/10