Fantastic adaptation of various Mignola comics

Rating: 9/10 (23 January 2006)

With this movie, we know now that Guillermo del Toro is for Hellboy, like Peter Jackson for Lord of the Rings. A fan that translates the story from the book to the film, with a lot of respect and dedication.
Looking carefully, having a Hellboy comic next to you while you watch the movie, you see that every frame is an exact representation and reproduction of Mignola's work, done in the film-making media. This is not Sin City, we all have to know that, so our imagination has to fill those spaces.
The story of big monsters and evil societies trying to conquer the world is as old as the common cold, we all know it, but the power of this movie is not the screenplay, that has a couple of flat line dialogs, is the images. Huge rooms full of pendulums, impossible bridges hanging over the void, talking corpses, huge guns, demons that multiply if you kill them, blue fire, and in the middle of that, a red demon, with his heart split between his two fathers. The good one (Trevor Broom) and the evil one (Rasputin).
So many sub lectures to name them all. But interesting enough to keep watching and watching. Only one thing to complain about. Is impossible to believe that the movie is set in New York, but who cares about the city when a Red guy is chasing a weird demon with tentacles on the head?