Hellboy

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.

...Ron Perlman's performance is anything but heavy; he plays Hellboy with the airy, cynical shrug of a charming repairman.

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

...witty moments help alleviate the film’s more unwieldy and banal machinations...

...in Ron Perlman, it has found an actor who is not just playing a superhero, but enjoying it...

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