Finally, a worth-while superhero movie!

Rating: Null/10 (16 May 2004)

Action? Adventure? Ugly-looking monstrosities? A tough-as-nails superhero? What about the beautiful female role?
This movie delivers on all of the above. And it's about time a movie did. Hellboy represents the comic-book-like superhero of evil who has been used for good. And who better for the job than Ron Perlman, who give us a stellar performance.
Hellboy is a cinematic narration about a demon who is rescued by the U.S. during our war with the Nazis. He was transported through a portal the Nazis created in a search for ultimate power. Hellboy then grows up to be your neighborhood superhero who slays paranormal vermin that "go bump in the night".
The movie delivers some great fight scenes and uses good CG to enhance the effects. And just as Tobe McGuire has shown us Spiderman as just as much human as superhuman, so has Ron Perlman in Hellboy's feelings of grotesqueness and love. The story isn't too complex so digestion/contemplation doesn't ruin the film.