Good movie! I love the comics and the movie...

Rating: 9/10 (11 June 2005)

I have been a fan of the Hellboy comics for a while now, and I own almost every graphic novel (I still need two). This movie is pretty close to the Hellboy main plot, but occasionally differs from the books. For instance, Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, the black-suited assassin, is a masochistic assassin in the movie, but is a passive and calm scientist in the books. Ilsa, Rasputin's lover, is in love with Rasputin in the movie, but is in love with the vampire Vladimir Giurescu in the books. Two of Rasputin's Nazi followers are completely left out: Leopold Kurtz and Hermann Von Klempt. If a sequel to this movie is made, Von Klempt should be in it, along with BPRD agents Kate and Roger the Homonculus. All in all, though, Hellboy is an enjoyable and creative movie.