Comic Book "LIVE"

Rating: 10/10 (4 April 2004)

Hellboy is one of the best, if not THE BEST adaptations of a comic book I have seen. If you rate your movies by genre, like I do, Hellboy is right up there at the top of the "Comic book turned to movie" list, IMHO. I am not ashamed to admit (ok, a bit ashamed) :) that I collected comic books as a child and young adult. There is a 'feeling' to a comic book when you read it and I got this feeling while watching Hellboy - it had all the classic elements: completely unbelievable characters, story line, villains and plot twists. The suspension of logic and reality are key, here, but any good comic collector has ground those elements of their psyche into dust, long ago. :)
For those non-collectors - Hellboy is still a well-acted (especially Perlman and Hurt) movie with good special effects and a marginally simple-enough story line to follow (notice I said marginally - go with a comic nerd, like my wife did, if you can - she enjoyed it!).
Bottom line for comic fans: 9.5 out 10 Bottom line for everyone else: 7.5 out of 10