Hellboy

Allt som allt, nästan lika bra som ”Spider-Man 2” men utan den filmens perfekt balanserade intrig.

...är inte bara ett saftigt actionäventyr, här utspelas också ett näpet skönheten och odjuret-drama mellan Hellboy och den flicka som han älskar, den eldfängda Liz.

Thanks to his [Ron Perlman] gruff, blue-collar charisma, a character who could easily have been just a big, scarlet special effect works like gangbusters.

...a personal project full of dark, brooding imagery and cast as personally as any indie work.

It's easy to see what attracted Guillermo del Toro to Mike Mignola's Hellboy comic: its hopeful humanity.

It's no stretch to say that Perlman is the primary reason Hellboy works.