Comic book movie from the better end

Rating: 9/10 (12 July 2005)

Before we start, this one is written by someone who has only seen the Director's cut, not the theatrical version.
As for comic book adaptations go Hellboy definitely is from the better end of the city: it's interesting, action is good and characters are really, really out of this world. How does this sound: Hellboy (Ron Perlman) is a red skinned daemon, Abe Sapien (David Hyde Pierce (voice)) is some sort of fish-man mutant and the main villains are ageless, possessed Nazi's lead by Rasputin (Karel Roden). Yes, that legendary Rasputin from the court of Russian Tzars.
Original comic Hellboy has more of a cult following than anything else and as someone who isn't a huge fan of the original comic I felt that the movie was far better constructed. The comic was too loose with its stories, there was rarely anything that connected the adventures of Hellboy. Some stories were extremely good, but there are those which are just stuffing for empty space. It must be admitted here, that the plot of the movie isn't very complicated or even very original, but it works and it's full of nice dialog and good action scenes. Even the romance of Hellboy and Liz (Selma Blair) is relatively nicely done.
All in all, this is worthy of a glance even for those, who are looking for good action movie. I would suppose, that if you take history very seriously and can't enjoy creative usage of world history then this movie might get you angry, but for everyone else, watch it.