Hell let loose

Rating: 5/10 (27 December 2014)

In Hellboy you enter the world of Guillermo Del Toro as he brings the comic book adaptation to life with his brand of visuals. But to put it bluntly despite the praise Ron Perlman gets for his wisecracking performance he was too old to playing Hellboy because despite his earth years he is supposed to look young and Perlman looks old despite the heavy prosthetic make up.
The plot regarding Nazis using the power of the dark arts and a portal to hell harks back to Raiders of the Lost Ark. The government agency with a menagerie of alien species working for them reminds you of the Men in Black franchise.
The story is rather so-so, it drags at the beginning and really just takes you from A to B to C. It relies too much on the one liners from Hellboy and despite good support from Doug Jones as Abe Sapien, John Hurt, Jeffrey Tambor and some dastardly Nazi baddies it is fairly entertaining without much depth.