Hellboy
From the dark side to our side.
From the dark side to our side.
Action, Fantasy
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2004
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In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before they summon a baby demon who is rescued by Allied forces and dubbed "Hellboy". Sixty years later, Hellboy serves the cause of good rather than evil as an agent in the Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense, along with Abe Sapien - a merman with psychic powers, and Liz Sherman - a woman with pyrokinesis, protecting America against dark forces.
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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
122 min
Release date:
2 Apr 2004
Country:
US
Languages:
Russian, English
Budget:
$66,000,000
Revenue:
$99,318,987
Awards:
3 wins & 23 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
This is the kind of movie you watch for its aura, for its appealing characters, for its marvelously sustained seriocomic romantic mood.
– Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com,
3 Apr 2004
fresh:
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.
– Bruce Diones,
New Yorker,
14 Apr 2013
fresh:
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.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
18 Apr 2007
rotten:
Unfortunately, after setting up this fresh blue-collar scenario in the movie's first hour, Del Toro wallows in pyrotechnics.
– David Germain,
Associated Press,
18 Apr 2007
fresh:
To his credit, del Toro does not flinch from the ridiculous. But he is equally sensitive to Hellboy's pulp poetry.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
6 Apr 2004