20 minutes was just about enough

Rating: Null/10 (4 April 2004)

I said it all in the summary folks. I just finished reading the first Hellboy comic and was very much looking forward to seeing that book come to life...it just didn't happen. After sitting down with anticipation to watch Hellboy, I found myself 20 minutes later asking the girl at the concession stand if I could please change theaters to go see another movie. I barely recognized the beginning of the story as being the same as the comic book. What was the purpose of having a human agent as some sort of partner? That wasn't in the comic, was it? I was going with that until I heard the stupid line right before the scene they show in previews where Hellboy punches the car and it flips over him. That preview was what made me want to see the movie in the first place....and then it's messed up with some dumb action movie cornball line. I've seen bad movies before, I've left bad movies before, but I've never asked if I could get into another one cuz I felt cheated.