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Hellboy

2004

Guillermo del Toro

Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Rupert Evans, John Hurt ...

6.0

60,111

Fantasy. Action. Adventure When a Nazi mystical experiment goes awry in 1944, the target of a wizard's spell, the child of Satan, Hellboy, is wrenched from his home, and adopted by the U.S. agents who intercept his arrival. Raised as a force of good, Hellboy grows up to be a full-fledged demon in the form of a man and an investigator of the paranormal. Now Hellboy is sent on a mission that brings him back in touch with the evil genius that started it all...

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Hellboy' is one of those rare movies that's not only based on a comic book, but also feels like a comic book. It's vibrating with energy (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"Del Toro understands the allure of evil, and he evokes its seductive pull (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Edelstein Slate	"A brilliant filmmaker who has a kind of metabolic connection to horror and sci-fi that helps him transform secondhand genre material into something deep and nourishing."	POS
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"What distinguishes 'Hellboy' from the pack and gives it squirmy, ferocious life is the environment that Mr. del Toro creates on screen. The movie is lubricated with a fluid, slimy menace"	POS
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"It looks great (...) Too bad the story and, more surprisingly, the action never come alive"	NEU
United Kingdom	Sloan Freer Radio Times	"A visually appealing marriage of action, horror and romance, it's both intelligent and fun. In a wry and often poignant performance, Ron Perlman brings unusual depth to the titular character (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Fans will thank the dark squid gods for del Toro's admirable loyalty to the source material (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Rob Mackie The Guardian	"It's pleasingly Gothic but vibrantly alive (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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