The same super-heated visual imagination that made Guillermo del Toro's PAN'S LABYRINTH (2006) such a darkly thrilling delight is very much in evidence in his sequel to HELLBOY (2004). It's a shame that it's at the service of such a blandly conventional story.
Hellboy (Ron Perlman), a cigar-chomping demon with an ossified red right hand like a piledriver, entered our world in 1944, courtesy of a Nazi experiment in mucking around with interdimensional barriers. Raised by British occultist Trevor Bruttenholm (John Hurt) to use his supernatural powers for good, not evil, Hellboy works for the highly classified Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense, protect...
Released:
2008
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
110 mins