This wasn't a good movie, but not just because Del Toro didn't do it. The Del Toro movies are way overhyped. Yeah, they're entertaining but they weren't faithful adaptations of Mignola's work. Del Toro (and the script writers) didn't get Hellboy's character at all. They just made a MIB movie with demons instead of aliens. I was actually excited to see someone else get the chance to make a proper HB movie (they didn't either though). I didn't give the slightest f#ck that Perlman wasn't going to be in it. He was nothing like HB. The entire tone of those movies was nothing like HB.
It's too bad that the one guy who WASN'T responsible for this trainwreck is the one who will always have to answer these stupid questions. Everything about the movie was total shit, indeed, but he or his performance most certainly was not the issue.
HELLBOY Sequel Would Have Featured A Redesigned, "Thug-Like" Take On Abe Sapien - EXCLUSIVE "The unfortunate thing is that the movie did not do very well and if it had, we would have explored Abe Sapien again. There were actually a lot of creatures coming in potential sequels. For this one, we get a glimpse at him at the very end with that teaser with his hand but if we had done the entire character, first of all, it would be vastly different from the other films, more thug like, and we wouldn't have even have gone with that hand you see at the end of the film. We would have designed something from scratch. That's one of the ones that, because I have an affection for fish people and fish characters, would have been really fun to work on but alas, no."
Devilman and Hellboy Team Up to Promote Hellboy Reboot Film Nagai watched the Hellboy film and described it as "dark" and appreciated the character's depiction as both gloomy and comedic. "[He] runs through the strange world of witches and monsters. A thrilling dark fantasy movie is born!!” He did this for the Japanese release. This looks incredible.
What the friggin hell was that? It's like they took all of these actors and had a bet on who could give their worst performances imaginable, and that is saying something considering this movie has Jovovich in it. Hell, Ian McShane was the biggest disappointed as he was clearly just reading his lines, even in the opening disjointed narration. I felt like I was watching some high school film project where actors just agreed to be in it because they felt sorry for these students. The editing was terrible, the entire fight against the giants looked like they had Harbor running on a treadmill in front of a moving screen, and none of the plot made any sense. It was like they just took a bunch of random scenes out of the comics and stitched them together with a paper thin plot and called it a movie. There were no proper introductions to any of the characters and some of the best parts came with the side kick girl, who did absolutely nothing for the entire movie. Oh, and the f bombs felt extremely forced as if they were just there to make the movie feel edgy and shriek, "WE HAVE AN R RATING! CAN'T YOU TELL OUR MOVIE IS RATED R!! IT'S RATED R, COME WATCH IT!!!" Oh, and then it's trying to pull a Marvel by putting in a trio of sequel bait scenes. The only reason I won't decalre this movie the worst movie of 2019 is because I already had low expectations of it, but it is definitely up there. The only reason I'm giving it a 3/10 is because the Baba Yaga scene did actually geel genuinely creepy. Nevertheless, son of King Arthur my ass. The Kid Who Would Be King did this story far better.
