David Harbour is great in the Hellboy reboot, but the rest of the movie should return to the hell that spawned it.
Imagine, if the Hellboy movie of 2004 wasn’t the very good one directed by Guillermo del Toro that spawned an even better sequel a few years later. Instead, imagine if Hellboy 2004 was more akin to other action-horror movies of its time, perhaps directed by Len Wiseman or Paul W.S. Anderson or, even more appropriately, if Stephen Norrington had taken on Hellboy as his next project after the reviled League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
In such an alternate universe, the Hellboy of 2004 would be indistinguishable from the Hellboy of 2019: a soulless, noisy, mess of a movie that has far more in common with lesser Underworld or Resident Evil sequels than it does with the works of Guillermo del Toro or Mike Mignola. Packed to the rafters with mediocre special effects,...
Imagine, if the Hellboy movie of 2004 wasn’t the very good one directed by Guillermo del Toro that spawned an even better sequel a few years later. Instead, imagine if Hellboy 2004 was more akin to other action-horror movies of its time, perhaps directed by Len Wiseman or Paul W.S. Anderson or, even more appropriately, if Stephen Norrington had taken on Hellboy as his next project after the reviled League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
In such an alternate universe, the Hellboy of 2004 would be indistinguishable from the Hellboy of 2019: a soulless, noisy, mess of a movie that has far more in common with lesser Underworld or Resident Evil sequels than it does with the works of Guillermo del Toro or Mike Mignola. Packed to the rafters with mediocre special effects,...
- 4/10/2019
- Den of Geek
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