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Hellboy

2019

Neil Marshall

David Harbour, Ian McShane, Milla Jovovich, Sasha Lane ...

4.7

6,574

Fantasy. Action Based on the graphic novels by Mike Mignola, Hellboy, caught between the worlds of the supernatural and human, battles an ancient sorceress bent on revenge.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"It’s basically a pile of origin-story gobbledygook, frenetic and undercooked, full of limb-hacking, eye-gouging monster battles as well as an atmosphere of apocalyptic grunge that signifies next to nothing"	NEG
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"It's just lousy. Bloated, vastly less funny than it aims to be and misguided in key design choices even when it scores with less important decisions"	NEG
United States	Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"Run and hide from this overbearing, incoherent and unnecessary reboot of the franchise (...) It's two hours long but feels like an eternity (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Between the overblown poor CG, witless dialogue and pervasive, numbing violence, the new 'Hellboy' deserves its own special circle in Dante’s Inferno."	NEG
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Harbour makes for a formidable Hellboy (...) It’s hard to read much into a movie less invested in shrewd observations than in stuffing as much lore as possible into 120 minutes."	NEU
United States	Rafer Guzmán Newsday	"Violence and vulgarity replace the humor and poetry of Guillermo del Toro's superhero films."	NEG
United States	Mike Cecchini Den of Geek	"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 work of Guillermo del Toro or Mike Mignola (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Scott Mendelson Forbes	"The lack of story and character work is aggressive that it can’t even work as a high trash good time grindhouse flick."	NEG
United States	Meg Downey IGN	"'Hellboy' is a thin, clumsy, and charmless attempt at rebooting a beloved franchise. It's populated by forgettable characters motivated by confusing stakes, cheaply executed visuals, and distracting editing."	NEG
United States	Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"This doesn’t quite feel like the Hellboy we wanted (...) Technically, it’s a mess of a movie, but I’d be willing to tune in for a sequel if it means more Baba Yaga (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Banal reboot lacking the original devilish spark (...) It couldn’t be more boring than this (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United Kingdom	John Nugent Empire	"The new direction for the franchise — a dark, grown-up take on a dark, grown-up character — makes complete sense. But something got lost along the way (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Katie Rife AV Club	"A loud, gory mess only a teenager could love (...) The sentimental father-son subplot is 'Hellboy' at its most laughably absurd, highlighting the chasm between its script and its direction."	NEG
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"It becomes painfully clear that the only really new idea this 'Hellboy' has to offer is bloodletting and gore"	NEG
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"[Marshall's] gusto is easy to admire if not always share, and it gives this movie a yucky, exhausting integrity. This 'Hellboy' can be something to see. It can also be a giant bore."	NEU
United States	Bilge Ebiri Vulture	"[It] throws so many tired plot points and revelations at us that it all feels like an exhausting blur (...) It’s inert where it should be fast, and cluttered and choppy where it should be rousing."	NEG

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