partially good

Rating: 4/10 (2 May 2013)

Having no previous knowledge about Hellboy, i was open for everything when i went to the theater. The result was halfway good.
The movie opens brilliantly, the story develops well, fusing fact and fiction. Then roughly in the middle of it, it all becomes just another Hollywood action flick with special effects. If i remember right, the precise moment is entering the cemetery in Moscow while searching for Rasputin.
Not sure why this was the case, but it seems as if the producers wanted to showcase all CGI available at the time. Surely they wanted to impress the audience, they probably needed to top some other movie of the era and market research told them they needed bigger and better special effects to do that.
The result is good fun, but also makes you forget Hellboy at the moment the end credits start rolling.