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Movie:
"Hellboy" (Starring: David Harbour, Ian McShane, Milla Jovovich, Penelope Mitchell, Thomas Haden Church, Daniel Dae Kim)

Release Date:
4/12/19

Rating:
R (for strong bloody violence and gore, and language throughout.)

Running Time:
120m. (2h. 00m.)

Budget:
$85 million (estimated)

IMDb Synopsis:


IMDb Info and Rating:
0.0 (0 votes as of 4/7/19)

Rotten Tomatoes:
Fresh:0 Rotten:0 (TBD% as of 4/7/19)

Metacritic:
TBD metascore ('Mixed or average reviews' as of 4/7/19)

Trailer:


Poster Art:

DJariya

FYI

If you're a T-Mobile subscriber, they have a T-Mobile Tuesday special with a code for a $4 ticket on Atom Tickets. I went ahead and booked a seat for next Tuesday.

But, holy shit according Atom, the running time is 158 minutes. Damn.

Obi-Wanma

I'm not sure where that runtime is coming from, but most places are reporting that the runtime is exactly 120 minutes.

dex14

Fandango and IMDb have it at 2 hours.

DJariya

Okay so Atom Tickets is wrong then. Good I guess. 158 minutes seems super bloated for this.

Inhumans99

Mike86

Might see this when it hits home media, but I'm not interested enough to see it in theaters.

DJariya

No and that wouldn't make any sense because it's not some special screening. Atom Tickets serves multiple theatre chains.

dex14

Yikes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hellboy_2019/reviews/

I may sit this one out...

The Antipodean

The Antipodean

Owch, 11% on Rotten Tomatoes now:

"Marshall and screenwriter Andrew Cosby went overboard with their R-rating, introducing so much gore and profanity that it, quite frankly, gets dull. The flat performances and incoherent story do not help matters." - Washington Post

"It's two hours long but feels like an eternity, lurching incoherently from one noisy set-piece to another." - Time Out

"Hellboy might not be 'Uwe Boll bad,' but it's pretty damn close. A complete embarrassment." - The Beat

"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." - Den Of Geek

"Somewhere out there right now Guillermo del Toro is crying to himself saying "sometimes dead is better". - Flickering Myth

Gunde

Yeah, we could tell all that from the latest trailer. Too bad.

RichC2

del Toro isn't crying to himself at all. He's probably just saying "fucking idiots" and shaking his head.

dex14

Why So Blu?

E Unit

Cause Neil Marshall is all about that and thinks that's what we want in Hellboy. Forget anything from the comics. Nice job Marshall, another bomb to add to your resume.

Why So Blu?

This will probably be the first Marshall film I will not like.

Dog Soldiers rocked. The Descent is a classic. Doomsday is a big time cult-classic, and I enjoyed Centurion, too.

I guess this Hellboy production was just a nightmare to be involved with.

dex14

Also to note, Marshall was involved with that chick that got Kevin Tsujihara fired from WB, who is in this movie.

melasnus

Other than money, there was no need for a reboot anyway.

Deftones

Sounds like the set was a mess: "Hellboy" Clashes Emerge As Film Widely Panned - Dark Horizons

OldBoy

wow! 11%...

Perkinsun Dzees

Aww, hell. Boy, that's disappointing.

Was planning on seeing this tonight, but might check out Ip Man Z instead.

TheMovieman

Things are looking up, now 12%!

greydttwo

Perkinsun Dzees

Well, I ended up seeing Hellboy after all...and I'm sure I'll be in the tiny minority on this, but I actually enjoyed it.

Yes, there's way too much exposition crammed into the first half and the movie's 3rd act is rather convoluted, but I found the plot to be pretty straightforward and fairly easy to follow, and not the "incoherent mess" that a lot of critics claimed it was.

The opening prologue wasn't very promising, but after an effective sequence involving Mexican wrestling, I kept waiting for the movie to run off the rails and it never did. The battle against the giant trolls was fun, if not particularly memorable, but the confrontation with Baba Yaga was fantastic (very Del Toro-esque if I may say so) and the high point of the movie for me. Enjoyed the Daimio flashback that played like a shoutout to Dog Soldiers, and the brief cameo by Thomas Haden Church as Lobster Johnson in 2 scenes.

Because of the crap trailers, I thought the movie would have a lot of dumb comedy shoehorned in, but story was played out pretty seriously, with most of the humor coming from the title character's wisecracks (which weren't all that bad). I actually found Harbour to be surprisingly excellent in the lead role. Maybe not as good as Perlman, but I thought he was both believable and sympathetic as the titular character. Now, Alice and Daimio are not as good supporting characters as Abe Sapien and Liz Sherman, but neither one detracted from the movie and both added a bit of unique flavor to it. Milla was appropriately hammy and bewitching as the villainous Nimue, but the secondary villain, Gruagach, was your basic dumb brute henchman. He has a long battle sequence against Hellboy and Daimio in which he isn't really defeated, but Nimue just shows up as he's about to crush Hellboy and decides to zap him into nothing, which I found pretty ridiculous.

I never thought the gore was overly excessive. Sure, it's obviously way over-the-top, but the movie doesn't drown in it and some of the effects were rather creative. Seriously, I can't believe this movie is getting crapped on so much. It's certainly no classic and will be forgotten by the time Endgame hits theaters, but it's a well-paced two hour onslaught of action, gore and humor that is nowhere near as bad as its Rotten Tomatoes score would indicate.