I think my problem with having sympathy for Victor is he tried to hide, run from his problems for so long. He did nothing overt to save Justine and seems so self-centered to not have even considered it was Elizabeth, and not him, that would be killed. He really doesn’t try to do anything to confront, resolve the issues he’s created. His motivations while they may have been good, his lack of responsibility far overshadow his motivations. I did watch the 1994 Frankenstein. Like you, I found this to be the closest representation to the book, but there is still quite a lot of artistic interpretation going on. Nonetheless, I felt like the spirit of the book was kept fairly intact.