A masterpiece...

Rating: 10/10 (14 August 2004)

An absolute masterpiece among comics to film adaptations.
Guillermo del Toro brings Mike Mignola's Hellboy to the big screen with amazing atmosphere, brilliant characterizations and obsessive attention to detail. Absolutely top notch lighting, SFX, costuming and makeup, and cinematography all help bring some truly breathtaking scenes to life.
Hellboy compares favorably with the X-MEN and Spiderman franchises while putting misses like the Hulk and Daredevil to shame. Extreme fantasy like this only works if the human element is truly believable and the relationships draw you in and make you care about the characters. In this critical aspect, Hellboy succeeds brilliantly where so many others have failed.