The film may not be thrill-a-minute entertainment like Superman, Spiderman or Batman. But this is precisely what makes it tick.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 7, 2019

When the movie's story line concentrates on the character of Hellboy and his relationships with those important to him, the film becomes a unique romp, with an exciting yet vulnerable superhero at the center who just happens to be the spawn of Satan.

| Apr 14, 2013

Director Guillermo Del Toro captures some of the visual color, tone, and beauty of the comic book. But he sometimes makes you feel like you are reading it over someone else's shoulder, and that person takes too long to finish a page.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 24, 2010

Played by Ron Perlman, he's the most magnetic action hero I've come across in a long while, though I couldn't make heads or tails of this story.

| Apr 18, 2007

Unfortunately, after setting up this fresh blue-collar scenario in the movie's first hour, Del Toro wallows in pyrotechnics.

| Apr 18, 2007

Del Toro, in love with his source but never overawed by it, keeps things moving; Perlman ties it together with some of the driest witticisms this side of Indiana Jones. Like we said: fun.

| Jun 24, 2006

Del Toro's energized adventure has humor, excitement, and soul to burn.

| May 4, 2005

Most effective as a brief window into an era. It captures the bitter aftertaste of a counter-cultural movement gone stale

| Sep 7, 2004

It hasn't got the breakout potential of less eccentric comic book heroes, but fans will thank the dark squid gods for del Toro's admirable loyalty to the source material.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 4, 2004

A richly imaginative comicbook world is unveiled in Hellboy. If only the story was as strong.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2004

Perlman plays the adult Hellboy to perfection: part blustery, stogie-chomping tough guy in a mean leather duster, and part angsty teenager, sick and tired of being confined to the BPRD lest his appearance incite a riot among the general populace.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2004

To his credit, del Toro does not flinch from the ridiculous. But he is equally sensitive to Hellboy's pulp poetry.

Full Review | Apr 6, 2004

This is the kind of movie you watch for its aura, for its appealing characters, for its marvelously sustained seriocomic romantic mood.

Full Review | Apr 3, 2004

Del Toro moves his story along with unrelenting energy and wit while introducing the opposing parties with admirable efficiency.

Full Review | Apr 2, 2004

Comic book fans are sure to be delighted by Hellboy, Guillermo del Toro's surprisingly smart, graphically faithful live-action adaptation of the Mike Mignola series.

Full Review | Apr 2, 2004

Easily the most adept comic book adaptation since Ghost World.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 2, 2004

[del Toro] doesn't quite knock it out of the park like X2 or Spider-Man, but that's not because of a weak swing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 2, 2004

If you don't normally go to films where the lead characters look like giant Pez dispensers, the slogging fights of Hellboy may seem like purgatory. But there's enough going on in between the big action sequences to save the movie from mediocrity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 2, 2004

While the character of Hellboy is entertaining, the film in which he appears is largely an exploitative jumble.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 2, 2004

I don't know if Hellboy has had a Beauty and the Beast relationship in his comic-book life, but if he did, the filmmakers did right by him in casting Ron Perlman.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 2, 2004