Maybe del Toro got lost in this labyrinth

Rating: 6/10 (17 November 2008)

One thing I feared, before watching the film and it became true. I felt, that this picture had more style than substance, as the in my opinion widely over-appreciated "Hellboy". The worlds characterized in this film are not really different, the point of the story is how you behave in a certain unreal environment. Evil and cowardly as Vidal does, or honorable and brave, as Ofelia. Specially that she allows her to make faults is nice, for I can see her little weaknesses in myself, like when she eats berries, knowing what the consequences are. Unfortunately what stays in the end is question marks, what did del Toro actually wanna say? You live on in the way you died? Glenn Miller just disappeared, is he only remembered for having disappeared? Certainly Not! In the end it is only important what you yourself see in a picture, but I don't see a lot. The cinematography is impressive as is the gore and the, in my opinion, unnecessary violence. Normally I like violence and gore in movies, but still they have to make sense, they have to be a part of telling the story, like in some good horror movies, where those two have a function. But why must Vidal repeatedly act as slaughterer? That is, as absurd as that may seems, regarding who the director is, totally lame.