This movie is awful

Rating: Null/10 (14 April 2004)

This is one of the worst films I've seen in a long time. Everything about this movie is bad.
The plot - if you can call it that - is poorly conceived and/or poorly conveyed. Even taken in the context of a comic book adaptation which can provide a lot more leeway, whatever story elements the audience can actually understand are more annoying than entertaining. The story is just half-baked.
The script is clearly a draft. This is a film that needed that last round of editing before it should have been shot. That wouldn't have saved the movie, but at least the dialog would have been less irritating. The one-liners lack any originality or wit. This is just bad writing, plain and simple.
The characters are just as bad. I couldn't bring myself to care about Hellboy, Liz, the professor, or the dork from the FBI. The villians? I didn't even understand who they were, so how could I care about them?
"The Hulk" proved that we're no longer impressed by realistic computer-generated characters when they're featured in disappointing movies. It's okay to stress style over substance, but you've got to give us SOMETHING behind the effects. Del Toro doesn't do that at all, and the resulting film is a dismal failure. Avoid this one at all costs.