Movie Review: Hellboy 2019

chekohler (70)in #movies • 5 years ago

Hey Spawn of Satan

As we continue down the path of Hollywood remakes and comic book adaptations it was only a matter of time before someone thought, hey let's make another Hellboy right?

One of the few comic book movies not based on a Marvel or DC property that faired pretty well at the box office in its previous attempt under Director Guillermo Del Toro.

While his 2 part movie franchise had some hickups it was pretty well received and I thought this movie should have been a final episode to that trilogy but alas, they've tried to reboot it. We're going to see a few non-Marvel/DC comic book movies launching soon, we already had Polar, pretty sure Bloodshot and Harbinger are on the way too.

Anyway, that's beside the point, let's get back to our favourite little son of Satans latest escapade shall we?

What is Hellboy about?

Based on the graphic novels by Mike Mignola sees the legendary half-demon superhero is called to the English countryside to battle a trio of rampaging giants but later discovers that The Blood Queen, Nimue a resurrected ancient sorceress thirsting to avenge a past betrayal.

Suddenly caught in a clash between the supernatural and the human, Hellboy is now hell-bent on stopping Nimue without triggering the end of the world while he has to battle through a series of supernatural challenges.

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Poster for Hellboy - Image source: - za.ign.com

What I thought Hellboy about?

The source material for Hellboy SO rich, but they only skimmed the surface of it, focusing on broad ideas so much that I couldn't really care about any of the characters or even the fate of humanity.

The writing is bad and feels like they simply couldn't find the words to explain in full all the fantastic concepts that have all been done before, it's as if they just had to put down 10 000 words on a page and get it done.

There's a lot of explaining about past events and scene setup that should come from situations and dialogue but instead is given to us in an "Oh yeah, forgot to tell you..." type of delivery which can work for many movies but not for this one.

The editing of this film felt like a YouTuber did it, the scenes were mish-mashed together to tell the story loosely. I'm not an editor, but I even noticed scenes that would have been better left out or rearranged in a different order.

This extremely ugly shot cosplay version of Mike Mignola's Hellboy comic does not even attempt to tell a coherent story. Unlike Del Toro's films, there is no way of feeling any sympathy for the one-dimensional characters.

The movie is filled with silly one-liners and aimless quips make you realize that these annoyingly unpleasant characters have nothing to tell us over the course of two excruciating hours.

And where Guillermo Del Toro created a tactile world with a balanced combination of practical effects work and sparingly used CGI, we are now saddled with special effects that look like the deleted scenes from a Playstation 3 game.

It's incomprehensible that Mignola believes that this soulless version is closer to the comics. I think the claim that the fan of the source material would be at peace with this terrible movie is an insult.

There are too many moving pieces to that story, too many callbacks to previous stories, and truthfully its way too big a scope to try and cram into one story, even if the script and director were up to the challenge. And unfortunately, they were not.

As for replacing Ron Pearlman, David Harbour really does a great job in making Hellboy his own take on the character and injecting his own brand of humour into the character, but the script does him no favours in giving him very little room to work.

If they ever make another, I do hope they bring him back because it's clear how much he cares about the character, but please give the man something to work with next time.

Trailer for Hellboy

My rating for Hellboy

I loved the 2004 version with Ron Perlman and I was expecting they would reboot the franchise because they had some new ideas. Doesn't seem like that was their motivation and the result is that the 2019 version is a mess.

If you like the Hellboy story or want to see a decent film adaptation of the character I suggest you watch the previous two films instead and give this one a complete miss.

This movie is barely passable as a comic book adaptation and I'm being kind by handing it 4 fists up the arse out of a possible 10

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j85063 (67) 5 years ago

Why do they mess up a good thing?

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nathen007 (68) 5 years ago

Because generally, no one appears to have an original thought in their head these days when it comes to movie making and audiences don't seem to like storytelling. Sad really.

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chekohler (70) 5 years ago

The only story they care about is the one that says box office returns were 20% or more on what the project cost and they are happy. Who cares if it's another trashy rehash!

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chekohler (70) 5 years ago

Lol Becuase Hollywood! Since its all become about the money and ROI instead of providing money to original stories or allow artists to take creative risks, they look at what has appealed to people in the past, what will get the most bang for their buck

Old stories (nostalgia)
something with an established fan base (games, movies)

They're afraid to have a movie bomb so rather grind out mediocre cash cows than the risk of creating something that audiences may like but it would be a niche audience, they want to appeal to as many people as possible. So let's make Hellboy a joke of a character and family-friendly is the result

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j85063 (67) 5 years ago

All about making sure they get the max dollars.

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carlgnash (69) 5 years ago

Man I saw a little bit of this but couldn't keep watching. One of my pet peeves is over-use of bad CGI (any kind of CGI really but it is worse with bad CGI). Even the huge budget Marvel monstrosities would benefit from scaling back on the amount of screen time that is computer generated, and on a smaller budget it is just unpalatable

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chekohler (70) 5 years ago

Lol I agree it was so hard to push through I just wanted to finish it for the review! The CGI was’nt great and I agree totally overused

The CGI can’t be cheap though I don’t know why they wouldn’t use it more sparingly

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lionsmane (56) 5 years ago

Didn't read this because I will watch Hellboy at some point; scrolled to the end to see a rating and, pleasantly, it was there.

Judging by the lack of talk of the movie, I assumed it wasn't that good. Shame because the original trailer months ago made it look like it could be great.

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chekohler (70) 5 years ago

I really enjoyed the first 2 and was always going to give this one a shot and I do like David Harbour so I thought really how bad could it be? But geez it was truly grotesque in my opinion a husk of a movie. If you do see it, id love to hear what you have to say on it

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epitt925 (78) 5 years ago

What a great review!!
I have watched this movie before.

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chekohler (70) 5 years ago

Thanks, I appreciate it, what did you think of the movie?

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Guess what?

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Some of us like to willingly subject ourselves through painful experiences for no real reason!

I would liken watching this movie to those dudes that like chicks standing on their balls and shit

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