Movie was good, Perlman was great!

Rating: 7/10 (2 April 2004)

I thought that this movie was actually pretty good. From the way it looked in the previews, I thought it would be just another crappy superhero flick but it was more than that. This movie had heart. Whether it was the interaction between Abe and Broom or the romance with Hellboy and Liz you could definitely feel the emotion. But that's only in the scenes between the fights, which were not bad but they weren't the best as special effects these days go (they're still 100 times better than anything you would've seen a decade ago with the comic book movies made back then). As far as Ron Perlman's make-up goes, yeah it looks fake and a little cheesy but it keeps with the look of the comic. Besides, 30 minutes into it I forgot all about the make-up and focused on the character which Perlman played perfectly as both rough and macho as well as sweet and vulnerable. All in all, I give Perlman's performance a 10 out of 10 with the rest of the movie being a six. I will definitely see this movie again just to see if only to see Red and his dynamite personality.