Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Hellboy
2004
**½
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Cast: Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair, Rupert Evans, Karel Roden, Jeffrey Tambor, Doug Jones

Nazis momentarily have a portal open, which allows a little red creature to slip through. He grows up to be Hellboy, US government’s secret weapon against paranormal creatures. Hellboy is based on a cult comic book by Mike Mignola and he’s a wonderfully off-the-wall character. Sadly the movie around him is formulaic and silly, and some of the other characters are sketchy. Grigori Rasputin is the main villain and his sidekick Kroenen is a creepy Nazi assassin. Both appear to be undead in one scene and totally killable in the next. The action scenes consist of well executed but repetitive fights against tentacled monsters who multiply in death. Followed by Hellboy II: The Golden Army.