Hellboy

Rating: 5/10 (25 September 2007)

From director Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), this is another not too bad comic book based hero brought to the screen. The film begins in 1944, during World War II, and the Nazi Germans are researching the occult, and the villain Grigori Rasputin (Karel Roden) has spent 5 years building an huge portal machine which he intends to use to bring out a monstrous God of Chaos. When Rasputin eventually dies from using too much of his power, the machine (activated) shoots out a creature of the world intended, a red devil looking creature, and researcher Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm (John Hurt) is determined to raise "Hellboy" to do good. Sixty years later, Broom is dying of old age, and FBI agent John Myers (Rupert Evans) is sent to pretty much help him, and his two legendary friends, obviously Hellboy (Alien: Resurrection's Ron Perlman) and aquatic creature Abe Sapien (Doug Jones). They are defending the city, battling crooks through alleys, streets and subways, while trying also to protect friends, including Hellboy's love interest Liz Sherman (Selma Blair), who is learning to control her power of making fire from her body. Eventually, Rasputin returns from his grave, and threatens the city with his many ugly and almost indestructible creatures. Also starring Jeffrey Tambor as Tom Manning. I can agree the film loses some speed towards the very end, and there are those annoying getting to know each other and stuff like that moments (sentimentality), but it still not a bad film. Worth watching!