Fresh
This is the kind of movie you watch for its aura, for its appealing characters, for its marvelously sustained seriocomic romantic mood.
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Hellboy
From the dark side to our side.
2004 · 2h 2m · PG-13
Action, Fantasy
Directed by
Guillermo del Toro
Overview
In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before they summon a baby demon who is rescued by Allied forces and dubbed "Hellboy". Sixty years later, Hellboy serves the cause of good rather than evil as an agent in the Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense, along with Abe Sapien - a merman with psychic powers, and Liz Sherman - a woman with pyrokinesis, protecting America against dark forces.
Director and cast
- Guillermo del Toro Director
- Ron Perlman as Hellboy
- Selma Blair as Liz Sherman
- Doug Jones as Abraham 'Abe' Sapien
- John Hurt as Prof. Bruttenholm
- Rupert Evans as John Myers
- Jeffrey Tambor as Tom Manning
- Ladislav Beran as Karl Ruprecht Kroenen
- Bridget Hodson as Ilsa Haupstein
- Karel Roden Cast
- Brian Steele Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
81%
Tomatometer
Fresh
When the movie's story line concentrates on the character of Hellboy and his relationships with those important to him, the film becomes a unique romp, with an exciting yet vulnerable superhero at the center who just happens to be the spawn of Satan.
Bruce Diones, New Yorker
Fresh
Played by Ron Perlman, he's the most magnetic action hero I've come across in a long while, though I couldn't make heads or tails of this story.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Unfortunately, after setting up this fresh blue-collar scenario in the movie's first hour, Del Toro wallows in pyrotechnics.
David Germain, Associated Press
Fresh
To his credit, del Toro does not flinch from the ridiculous. But he is equally sensitive to Hellboy's pulp poetry.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
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