Review of Hellboy (2019) by Ajzeg01 — 15 Sep 2019
Another 2019 movie that showed up for free from the library. Now, I’m not a huge fan of the original Guillermo Del Toro Hellboy movies, I’ve only seen the first one, but I really like it. It’s action-packed, it has great effects, it has fun characters and it’s just a good movie.
The 2019 remake is not a good movie. Like, it’s not the worst comic book movie ever made, not by a long shot, but it just has an overall feeling of cheapness. Some of the action was okay and I like the design of some of the characters but that’s about it as far as good things about this movie go.
The story makes no sense, the characters are all boring and unlikeable and the effects are AWFUL!!!!!!! The prosthetics are okay, Hellboy looks fine (Except for the tail. It just hangs there and does nothing.
) and I really liked this witch monster that shows up halfway through, but the CGI is some of the worst I’ve ever seen for a movie this recent. It looks like it’s from the early 2000s, not 2019! It reminds me of Van Helsing or Underworld or Resident Evil.
Remember those? It’s just terrible! It also reminded me of Deadpool with all the violence and one-liners and it rips off the title cards that show the names of locations from the MCU movies. Clearly this movie is not as good as those.
There are some good kills with lots of blood and guts in this movie and some wild monsters that show up that are actually kinda cool, but it’s all CGI so I have to take points off for that. The music was also kinda distracting.
Overall, there’s just not much I have to say about this movie. It’s bad, but I didn’t hate it. If you just want to watch schlock, this isn’t a bad choice. I actually think it’s a little better than Venom.
If you actually want a good movie, however, stick with the Del Toro films.
This review of Hellboy (2019) was written by Ajzeg01 on 15 Sep 2019.
Hellboy has generally received mixed reviews.
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