Dispensing with backstory, which the film doles out later in its endless (two-hour) run, we watch as Hellboy tries to save a friend who has been taken over by evil forces. Here’s a handy checklist: demons, fairies, changelings, vampires, leprous hags, luchadors, skeletons, giants, giant skeletons, witches, sorceresses, seers, dragons, dragonettes, Nazis, trolls, pig-monsters, were-cats, ectoplasmic entities and a giant, fire-breathing anemone with the legs of a bodybuilder. There’s a good superhero movie lurking inside this Hellboy reboot – heck, there are probably two or three in there, and a shameless promise of a sequel to boot. But this film is intent on throwing everything it can on the screen, whether it all fits together or not. If you’re going to hell in a handbasket, perhaps best to not put all your eggs in there with you.

Source: National Post April 11, 2019 15:33 UTC