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Hellboy
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- 2018
- Neil Marshall
- 116 mins
- 15
Summary
The horned hero with a stone fist faces off against undead sorceress Nimue, the Queen of Blood. Director Neil Marshall's conversion of Mike Mignola's cult comic, with Stranger Things' David Harbour taking over the title role from Ron Perlman. Also starring Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane, Daniel Dae Kim and EastEnders' Laila Morse
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A star rating of 2 out of 5.
Alan Jones
An enervating and frenzied clutter of flashbacks, globe-trotting and gore, director Neil Marshall's reboot fails to match the otherworldly allure of Guillermo del Toro's original films. David Harbour (Stranger Things) struggles to fill Ron Perlman's hooves as Hellboy, who must fight the ancient Blood Queen (a struggling-to-be-evil Milla Jovovich), who has been revived by giants intent on causing worldwide pestilence. Any fantasy that combines King Arthur, Rasputin, Baba Yaga and Cilla Black in one convoluted universe deserves some faint praise. But while there's a great deal going on, nothing really adds up to very much, especially when the humour falls flat and it all comes smothered in grating in-jokes, banal profanity, scrappy visuals and overblown CGI. Marshall's hefty genre background means there's no stinting on gore, but the constantly shifting tone between serio-comic and bloated bombast means this satanic panic is just tragic.
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Cast
rolenameHellboyDavid HarbourNimue / The Blood QueenMilla JovovichProfessor Trevor "Broom" BruttenholmIan McShaneAlice MonaghanSasha LaneMajor Ben DaimioDaniel Dae KimLady HattonSophie OkonedoGruagachStephen GrahamLobster JohnsonThomas Haden ChurchGaneidaPenelope Mitchell
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rolenameDirectorNeil Marshall
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Theatrical distributor
Lionsgate
Released on
2019-04-11
Languages
English | German | Russian | Spanish
Guidance
Violence, swearing
Formats
Colour
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