disappointment

Rating: 4/10 (10 April 2004)

There was a lot of hype for this movie, and it just didn't live up to it. I was pretty bored the entire time, and the story was relatively lame. The actor that played John T. Smith was just awful - and Selma Blair was either sleepwalking through her performance or she just plain sucks.
The only bright spot about this flick was Ron Perlman's "Hellboy." He brought the character to life and basically carried this CGI-loaded movie. And the funny thing is - he didn't even have that much dialogue, mostly just one liners. They should have used him more and let him take over.
What happened to Abe Sapien? Quite an interesting character, but they failed again here in making him unavailable at the end of the movie because he was injured.
Luckily there was some action, and Perlman made it watchable. Because of his performance, I would give Hellboy a 4/10. There were just a few too many corny scenes that killed this movie for me.