There are things that go bump in the night, but not to worry there are also things that bump back. That’s where the department for paranormal research comes in, it is their job to save the world from the weird all the while never letting the world know what they are doing. When a Nazi mystical experiment goes awry in 1944, the target of a wizard's spell, the child of Satan, Hellboy, is wrenched from his home, and adopted by these U.S. agents of the newly founded department and who were just in time to intercept his arrival. Raised as a force of good, Hellboy grows up to be a full-fledged demon in the form of a man, complete with fierce red skin, a tail, a giant armored glove, and two large circles where his horns should be (whenever they grow back, Hellboy is quick to break them off again). Now, the adult Hellboy, an investigator of the paranormal, is sent on a mission that brings him back in touch with the evil genius that started it all... the Nazi wizard Grigori Rasputin who appears to not be done with his plans to destroy the world. Accompanying him along the way are other agents, including Liz, a pyrokinetic woman Hellboy has feelings for, and Abe Sapien, a mysterious amphibian hominid and also his Hellboy’s new care taker John Meyers. Together they will face a pack of hell spawned dogs, evil nazi’s that will not die and a bunch of other minions of the Grigori Rasputin who are just as determined to destroy the world as Hellboy and his friends are to save it.

Some movies are just meant to be adrenaline packed rids of excitement, action and amazing special effects and that’s what makes them so good. Hellboy is what you would dub a “popcorn flick” but do it so lovingly as the movie is everything you would expect to be and that is just pure entertainment. Sure the movie is a little weak on the story side, but then again what you would expect from a movie based on a comic book, but it’s the not the story you come to see but rather the fight and actions scenes that come one after another in a glorious ride of what popcorn flicks can be. You are not going to walk away with some deeper meaning of life but you will walk away feeling like you can’t wait to see the movie again as it delivers on all its promise. I did feel the last battle was a little anti-climatic as they definitely made it too short after some of the previous battles that had been much longer. These are the kind of movies that I love because they don’t pull any cheap punches rather just realizing what they are and delivering on that. Sure the acting was little sub par as no one performance stood out but what steals the show is the special effects. This movie wouldn’t have been possible five years ago but with the advances of technology you almost feel like you are right there beside Hellboy battling the minions of darkness and what more could you ask for. A must see for the popcorn flick lover in us all.
4 stars out of 5