I mean, did you really believe that this latest incarnation of "Hellboy" would actually be better than the two excellent Guillermo del Toro films we got back in '04 and '08? Of course not. Nobody did. Those films had tremendous heart, meta humor and the kind of original creature design only del Toro's keen eyes and masterful imagination could come up with. David Harbour (from Stranger Things) takes on the lead role, impeccably immortalized by Ron Perlman in the original films, and he does a serviceable job stepping into the immense shadow left by Perlman, even if it seems like he is a tad miscast for this role (I’m being generous). This reboot decides to use folklore which is mixed in with an origin story involving Nazi-hunting vigilante Lobster Johnson, all set to an annoyingly on-the-nose blues-rock soundtrack. There’s also a ton of exposition, especially when Milla Jovovich’s villainous blood queen Nimue shows up to, gosh how original, wreak havoc and destroy the world. Director Neil Marshall's reboot also has action sequences which are choppily edited to the point where you can easily lose track of what’s happening. The hard R rating stamped on the film isn’t for nothing either, the gore, and, God, there’s plenty of it, involving ugly monsters and a cheapening of CGI, renders Marshall’s reboot from hell one of the true bombs of the year thus far. [F]
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