Entertaining and Visually Attractive

Rating: 7/10 (12 March 2005)

Hellboy is an entertaining comic book movie with plenty of action and its visually stunning. Based on Mike Mignola's cult comic book character, Hellboy (Ron Perlman) is a demon brought to earth by evil scientists and then put to use fighting the supernatural in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. Along with his fellow agents, the man-fish Abe Sapien and fire-starter Liz Sherman (Selma Blair), Hellboy takes on an evil power that threatens a mankind that will always treat them like outcasts. I have never read the comic book but after watching the film I kind of want to. Guillermo Del Toro does a great job of directing and keeps the film moving at a nice pace. Even the non action scenes of Hellboy are nice because there's a lot of humor in the story. The action scenes itself are cool and are done well. The cast is pretty good with Ron Perlman playing Hellboy and I think he was perfectly casted for the role. Also there's Selma Blair and she does a decent job but she's not that good of an actress. The problem with Hellboy is that its hard to root for the main character because he isn't very nice. Also Hellboys enemies aren't very interesting and the movies running time of two hour plus starts to wear you down. However, the film should satisfy fans of the comic book and comic book fans in general. Rating 7/10, entertaining at most parts and its worth a look.