Overrated

Rating: 5/10 (11 April 2019)

I had never seen this movie, and with the remake coming out I thought I'd watch the original two films. The first one is just fine. I don't really understand why everyone raves about Ron Pearlman as Hellboy. He's fine, he has his moments. The supporting cast is also just meh. Either over-acting or just not really acting at all. The only character I found compelling was Abe Sapian, and he's not in the film enough.
I understand the film was made in 2004 so the editing style and CGI is going to be different from today's style and standard. The CGI was very good for a film made almost 15 years ago. It doesn't hold up all that well but really, only a few early 200's movies hold up today. The film is also just too long. The story just isn't interesting enough keep me interested. In fact, at one point I forgot the whole reason as to why they were doing the things they were doing.
My main positive for the movie is it's visually entertaing but apart from that there really isn't much to love here. I enjoyed Hellboy 2 a lot more.