Too bloody to leave an impression

In the months that preceded HellboyComic book director Mike Mignola (who co-wrote the film with Andrew Cosby) did not want the film to be an original story found by Guillermo del Toro in his film. Hellboy movies. But that seems to have been almost anything but words. Unfortunately, that's essentially what the new Hellboy is.

Director Neil Marshall's Hellboy reboot is a clbadic example of the kind of movie where, as you watch in cinemas, you can always listen to the echoes of what it was or could have been earlier in the production process – maybe when the did the studio still consider who should lead the project or which actors would be the best to bring the characters to life? Sometimes it can work in favor of a movie. Most often, it is a major distraction that distracts attention from the story told and makes you start looking for other cracks in the narrative substance of the film.

The new movie opens with his titular demon hero (Strange things David Harbor) began his career at the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.) with his adoptive father, Trevor Bruttenholm (American gods » Ian McShane). With others, they hunt and retain the magical creatures that threaten the existence of humanity. At this point in his life, Hellboy is no stranger to the fate of his demon brethren with ease for the good of the whole world, but, despite the physical character of an imposing and imposing man from the underworld of the underworld, he is still relatively young – an immature adolescent by demon standards – and as petulant as any other child who is forced to work alongside his parents.

As soon as Harbor appears on the screen as Hellboy, he certainly sells himself as the character, like Ron Perlman, both because of his personality and the sheer amount of makeup it took for create his diabolical appearance. Even though we all enjoyed the Hellboy movies, you can not deny that the Hellboy The costume department has stepped up its game, and then some with its approach to creating a demon that looks, feels and moves like a credible being with minimal help from CGI.

Hellboy's relationship with his human father is a key element of the character's identity because Bruttenholm is the person responsible for the first introduction to Hellboy. Despite the fact that Hellboy is destined to cause the apocalypse, Bruttenholm loves his son and wants only the best of his monstrous misunderstood boy.

But because HellboyIt's a film that abhors the idea of ​​showing us things and letting the characters explain them in order to move on to the next scene, saturated with blood and lifeless, we do not see much of the dynamic father / son from Bruttenholm and Hellboy. Instead, the movie is much more focused on beating you on the head with a selection of the most successful moments of the Hellboy comics, hoping you'll be so plunged into blood and coolness that you'll mistakenly think you're having a good time. There is barely enough time to drink what the film serves as a check mark by hopping from stage to stage to give the impression that HellboyTry to make sure that you can not get a solid lock on it.

Regarding the main drama of the film, after an unsuccessful attempt to unleash a magical scourge on the world, the Witch Queen Blood Nemue (the pillar of the genus Milla Jovich) returns to the world of the living with revenge and with the intention to finish it. work of transforming the planet into a new Eden for Demonkind. As Nimue, Jovovich is at its height. Jovovich is a shredded scene that she has long spit out under the foot of her foot with the ease of a person accustomed to falling in the middle of spectacular train wrecks. Sometimes Nemue is just as boring and silly as Suicide teamEnchantress, but every time Jovovich has to deliver lines directly to the camera, she does her best to make the character as intimidating as possible.

When Nimue meets Hellboy for the first time, she realizes that she is in the presence of a demonic greatness and that together she would be able to achieve some sort of power that none of them could have imagined . But, Hellboy never slow down enough for this type of revelation to have any meaning whatsoever, which is disappointing, because you can say that the actors in the film are perfectly capable of embodying the roles entrusted to them. It's just that no characters are written in a particularly interesting or convincing way.

Hellboy's joined his quest to stop Alice's Nimue (Sasha Lane), an old friend of Big Red's who had empathic powers after being kidnapped by fairies as a child, and Ben Daimio (Daniel Dae Kim), a rough BPRD agent with a grudge against all that is not of the human world. Together, the trio is supposed to be a motley group of outsiders who find themselves better than they know, but whatever Harbor, Lane and Kim have chemistry between them, are lost in the deafening cacophony of HellboyGeneral disorder. And that does not affect the plot of the film, but the role of Daimio in the story is so minimal that it is laughable to claim that the character was whitewashed to give him a "British background Is ridiculous.

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While Guillermo del Toro was not involved in the production of the film at all, you can feel the ghosts of his Hellboy movies that haunt this one in the most unfortunate way. While Lionsgate initially pushed the idea of ​​this HellboyThe R note is a necessary part of its history, being both horror and fantasy, the final product is not as scary as it is raw. Because the story Do not imagine that demons are trying to erase humanity in such a frightening way, the movie exposes excessive amounts of free bloodshed that, after a while, fail to get your heart rate up. You can not be horrified to see someone torn in half before you get bored and start thinking about what all that fake blood can smell.

Like two good tastes that do not go well together, HellboyThe biggest sin is that you aspire to the film that it could have been because there are so many things in the film that works in isolation. David Harbor perfectly describes the charming and delicate aspects of Hellboy's personality, and a handful of action sequences from the movie are legitimately fun to watch before returning to the basics of the film. Unfortunately, these few luminous points are not likely to convince anyone that this restart deserves to be a starting point for a new series or to make the right choice. Hellboy franchise favors.

Hellboy arrives in theaters on April 12th.

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