Ron Pearlman makes this one.

Rating: 8/10 (3 April 2004)

What do you expect though, he is the title character and he is the main focus. That is Ron Pearlman though, he is an underrated actor and it is nice to see him as the star in a rather big movie. This movie is good too, but not without its flaws. The main problem I had with it other than the John Hurt character and Hellboy, no other character is really all that developed. Which is probably fine if you read the comics, but I have not so I would have liked to have known a little more about some of the characters. This is especially the case with the villains...all three were underdeveloped with the lady in the group being the most so. I would have also liked to have seen more monsters rather than the same one they had through the whole picture. Still though this movie was good as it had great action, the effects were good and there was good humor in it as well. And as I said before Pearlman was great. The plot is more of an origin type plot which is to be expected for the first movie of any comic character. A little more development would have helped it a bit, but all in all this is one wild ride with a lot of cool looking locations.