An Honest Review

Rating: 8/10 (26 November 2016)

It is a lot of fun, it has a sense of humor...it is flawed.
Hellboy is one of those movies that seems to suffer from a lack of elaboration. There are elements in the films that are beyond interesting, things that we as an audience would like to see more of, things that we would like to know more about.
Unfortunately the film never goes into it and that is possibly because there was never an intent to turn Hellboy into an out and out franchise. Because of that the mythology that the movie hints at is only given a lip service and it is done to move the plot along.
It is a shame. It touches enough on it's own little mythology that it could have been an X-Files style franchise with a superhero.
Instead of that you get an entertaining movie and really little more. The elements are there but they had to move along.
What remains is a fun film with a good sense of humor, an action movie that took a bit of time to develop a few characters and make sure to give the others a real personality.
It is not bad, but it is frustrating watching it, no matter how fun it is, because you know what could have been.