Good special effects, some laughs, cool characters but fatal flaws in the story

Rating: Null/10 (17 July 2008)

I like movies that combine a dark atmosphere, a sophisticated story and good action. Hellboy 2 defiantly has the action, the special effects and the visuals which makes the movie well worth watching. It has some comedy elements and good laughs as well. The story starts very promising but then goes on predictable and linear. The end is simply a joke and doesn't make any sense if you use some reasoning or logic on it. Don't try! A dark atmosphere or at least some tension does not exist in this movie. The characters Abe, Liz and Johann save the movie from being a flop with special effects. Hellboy acts in this movie like a childish clown with superpowers. That is not necessarily bad, but in the Hellboy animated films (for example) he is quite the opposite: cool, composed and grown up. Prince Nuada is an awesome character who won my sympathy from the minute he appeared on the screen. He is the kind of villain who is not simply evil: He has a point when he says that humans have destroyed nature for shopping malls. Nuada tries to win Hellboy for his mission. The dynamics between Hellboy and Nuada had much more potential: That would have been a chance to create a real "hit".
The movie is OK and worth watching but overrated by most people. I don't understand why every ordinary movie like Hulk 2 or this one gets an 8 point rating these days. It simply does not deserve it: 6 of 10 is enough.