Hollywood comes up short again.

Rating: Null/10 (12 April 2004)

Very disappointing movie. I felt like I was sitting back and watching something happen from a distance. The fight scenes were not involving, the plot is quite frankly laughable (gaping, gaping holes), and the climax is not climactic at all...you don't really care what is happening to anyone because the character development is so poor. Hellboy has some funny lines, but somehow I felt like I had no idea who he really was, or for that matter who ANYone really was. Romantic? The whole romance thing could have been a cool spin but instead it was relegated to cliches, and not enough time developing.
FX do not drive a movie, and this is evidence of that. I can't understand why film makers aren't all looking at the first Matrix, and all of the LOTR films, for proof that great stories and great character development are what drive a great action/sci-fi film. This was a could-have-been that ends up being a never-been. Rent both Blade movies for a better example of this type of flick.
Hellboy left me limp.