Synopsis: The Nazis hire Rasputin to open a portal to another dimension and summon some gods who will destroy the world. The Allies arrive in time to prevent him from doing it, but during the time the portal was open a baby creature from hell enters our dimension. He is raised by a scientist to be a good man and sixty years later he and his friends go after Rasputin resuscitated.
Appraisal: Well, the plot synopsis says it all, I guess. This is possibly this director's most autobiographical film, though probably not his most personal - that honor should go to the ghastly El laberinto del fauno. Hellboy, I guess, is his alter ego, as a boy who came from 'the other side', just as he, the director, came from across the Rio Grande to become an international filmmaker. The message of the film is 'where you came from doesn't make you; your choices do'. He, the director, abides to that all the way - you don't see Mexico once in his filmography. I guess I should give some points to this film on account of all the second unit work, and cinematography, and also some of the performances (the main actor, most of all). Based on a comic book series which appeared for the first time in 1993.
Rating: 25
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