magic to defeat magic

Rating: 5/10 (22 June 2004)

Ron Perlman and Selma Blair gave fair performances. The overall movie was enjoyable to watch and contained some genuine laughs.
However, it is bothersome that the current trend in fantasy/magic films, a trend that has been dominant for nearly two decades now, contradicts the very premise of the story. If you are going to give your characters supernatural powers and make them immortal than you must destroy them with similar but somehow superior supernatural powers.
It isn't just "Hellboy" that suffers from this illogic. Just about all fantasy films made today make the same mistake. Are they financed by the munitions industry?
When a character's indestructibility is demonstrated by having them recover from being blown up or having steel bars driven through their bodies than you can't kill them off later in the movie by driving steel bars through their bodies. It just doesn't make sense.
For example, one of the truly fun things about "Ghostbusters" was its consistency: it used supernatural powers to battle supernatural powers.
Consequently, I rate this 5/10. Watchable, but illogical.